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name: "Gabriella Cristiani"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gabriella-cristiani"
fi1m_id: "gabriella-cristiani"
imdb_id: "nm0188098"
tmdb_id: 11383
wikidata_id: "Q512224"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "21 May 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T17:30:24.842974+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gabriella Cristiani

## Identity

Gabriella Cristiani

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gabriella-cristiani
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gabriella-cristiani
- **IMDb ID:** nm0188098
- **TMDB ID:** 11383
- **Wikidata ID:** Q512224
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Cristiani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512224, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188098/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11383

Editor. Born 21 May 1949 in Foggia.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 21 May 1949, Foggia
- **Active:** 1976–1987
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 70 (1), 1980s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Cristiani, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q512224, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188098/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11383

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Last Emperor*](https://film.one/film/the-last-emperor.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Gabriella Cristiani is an Italian film editor. She began her career as an assistant to editor Franco Arcalli on Bernardo Bertolucci's *Last Tango in Paris* (1972) and *1900* (1976). She took over as editor on Bertolucci's *Luna* (1979) after Arcalli's death during production.

Cristiani maintained a long collaboration with Bertolucci, editing *Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man* (1981), *The Last Emperor* (1987) – for which she received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing – and *The Sheltering Sky* (1990), on which she pioneered nonlinear digital editing techniques. She has edited films for directors including Liliana Cavani (*Francesco*, 1989) and Michelangelo Antonioni (*Kumbha Mela*, 1989), and directed the feature *Ladies Room* (1999). She was born in Foggia in 1949.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, womenfilmeditors.princeton.edu.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Last Emperor* (1987), Fi1m 80, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-emperor.md)
- *1900* (1976), Fi1m 70, Assistant Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/1900.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Teleios* (2017), Editor
- *Kandahar* (2010), Editor
- *One Night with the King* (2006), Editor
- *Ladies Room* (1999), Editor, Director
- *Savior* (1998), Editor
- *Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini* (1994), series, Supervising Editor
- *Kumbha Mela* (1992), Editor
- *The Sheltering Sky* (1990), Editor
- *Francesco* (1989), Editor
- *The Last Emperor* (1987), Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-emperor.md)
- *High Season* (1987), Editor
- *Dream of a Summer Night* (1983), Editor
- *You Upset Me* (1983), Sound Editor, Editor
- *Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man* (1981), Editor
- *The Sandman* (1981), Editor
- *The Uprising* (1980), Actor
- *Desideria* (1980), Actor
- *Luna* (1979), Editor
- *Berlinguer: I Love You* (1977), Editor
- *1900* (1976), Assistant Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/1900.md)
- *Il lungo viaggio* (1975), series, Editor
- *Last Tango in Paris* (1972), Assistant Editor
- *Fiorina the Cow* (1972), Editor
- *Million Dollar Eel* (1971), Assistant Editor
- *Love Circle* (1969), Assistant Editor
- *The Legend of Nezha*, Editor
- *Due Justice*, Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1988: Best Film Editing (won), for *The Last Emperor*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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