Tonino Delli Colli

Tonino Delli Colli was an Italian cinematographer.

Biography

Cousin of Franco Delli Colli, Antonio Delli Colli was born in Rome, and began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori. He went on to work with a number of acclaimed and diverse directors including, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud, and Federico Fellini, whose last three films he photographed.
His collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini was especially fruitful: they made twelve films together, including Pasolini's debut Accattone, Mamma Roma, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales and Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.
Although Della Colli did not work regularly with Lina Wertmuller, his cinematography for Seven Beauties was a major career highlight.
His last film was Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, for which he won his fourth David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. In 2005 he was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' International Achievement Award. In August of the same year, he died at home in Rome.
Tonino Delli Colli died from a heart attack in 2005 at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.
In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1963	La ricotta	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Segment of Ro.Go.Pa.G.
1964	Amore e arte	Gianni Puccini	Segments of Amore in 4 dimensioni
1964	Amore e morte	Mino Guerrini	Segments of Amore in 4 dimensioni
1964	La Feuille de route	Ugo Gregoretti	Segment of The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964	Il generale	Alfredo Giannetti	Segment of Amori pericolosi
1964	La doccia	Massimo Franciosa	Segment of Extraconiugale
1968	Che cosa sono le nuvole?	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Segment of Caprice Italian Style
1968	William Wilson	Louis Malle	Segment of Spirits of the Dead
1980	Armando's Notebook	Dino Risi	Segment of Sunday Lovers
1991	Il cane blu	Giuseppe Bertolucci	Segment of Especially on Sunday
1996	Sanpellegrino Calze	Giuseppe Tornatore

Documentary short