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name: "Lorenzo Mongiardino"
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roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "12 May 1916"
died: "16 January 1998"
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# Lorenzo Mongiardino

Production designer. Born 12 May 1916 in Genoa. Died 16 January 1998.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 12 May 1916, Genoa
- **Died:** 16 January 1998
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Mongiardino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778793, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598044/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26268

## Biography

Lorenzo Mongiardino (also known as Renzo Mongiardino) was an Italian architect, interior designer and production designer. Born in Genoa in 1916, he trained in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and began working in theatre and film set design from the late 1950s, often in collaboration with Franco Zeffirelli.

His film credits include production design on *The Taming of the Shrew* (1967), *Romeo and Juliet* (1968) and *Brother Sun, Sister Moon* (1972). He received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction for the first and third of these films. He died in Milan in 1998.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Fi1m 75, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *Beyond Good and Evil* (1977), Production Design
- *Brother Sun, Sister Moon* (1972), Production Design
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Production Design — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)
- *The Taming of the Shrew* (1967), Production Design

## Gallery

- ![Renzo Mongiardino nel bagno turco della Fetta di Polenta, 1998 (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1243411/gallery-bdb5bdefe4b2.jpg) Renzo Mongiardino nel bagno turco della Fetta di Polenta, 1998 (2016) — TheSlice, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Renzo-Mongiardino-43995.XL.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Lorenzo Mongiardino](https://film.one/media/person/1243411/gallery-474748d4892e.jpg) Lorenzo Mongiardino — Giantof, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Renzo_Mongiardino_nel_1996.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1974: Best Production Design (nominated), for *Brother Sun, Sister Moon*
- 1968: Best Production Design (nominated), for *The Taming of the Shrew*

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

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