---
name: "Simona Paggi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simona-paggi"
fi1m_id: "simona-paggi"
imdb_id: "nm0656455"
tmdb_id: 9244
wikidata_id: "Q7520213"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "29 December 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:26:46.763232+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."
---

# Simona Paggi

## Identity

Simona Paggi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simona-paggi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simona-paggi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0656455
- **TMDB ID:** 9244
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7520213
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona_Paggi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7520213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9244

Editor. Born 29 December 1962 in Milan.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 29 December 1962, Milan
- **Active:** 1994–1997
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona_Paggi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7520213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0656455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9244

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Life Is Beautiful*](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md) (65)

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

## Biography

Simona Paggi is an Italian film editor born on 29 December 1962 in Milan. She trained in photography and graphics at the ITSOS institute before studying film editing at the Albedo film school in Milan. She began working in the 1980s as an assistant editor and on documentaries before making her feature debut as editor on Gianni Amelio’s *Open Doors* (1990).

Paggi has maintained a long collaboration with Amelio on films including *The Stolen Children* (1992), for which she won the David di Donatello for Best Editing, *Lamerica* (1994) and *The Way We Laughed* (1998). She edited Roberto Benigni’s *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing. Other credits include work with Emanuele Crialese, John Turturro and films such as *Pinocchio* (2002), *Fading Gigolo* (2013) and *Lord of the Ants* (2022). She has contributed to more than eighty productions.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), Fi1m 65, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

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

- *Come fratelli* (2025), Editor
- *Battlefield* (2024), Editor
- *The Beautiful Summer* (2023), Editor
- *The Good Mothers* (2023), series, Editor
- *Lord of the Ants* (2022), Editor
- *The Bad Poet* (2021), Editor
- *La bambina che non voleva cantare* (2021), Editor
- *Questo è un uomo* (2021), Editor
- *Hammamet* (2020), Editor
- *The Jesus Rolls* (2019), Editor
- *Our Family Three More* (2018), Editor
- *Trust* (2018), series, Editor
- *Tenderness* (2017), Editor
- *Una casa nel cuore* (2015), Editor
- *Soldato Semplice* (2015), Editor
- *L'Oriana* (2015), Editor
- *Quadri espansi* (2013), Actor
- *Fading Gigolo* (2013), Editor
- *Intrepido: A Lonely Hero* (2013), Editor
- *Terraferma* (2011), Editor
- *Cocapop* (2010), Editor
- *Passione* (2010), Editor
- *L'oro di Cuba* (2009), Editor
- *The Sweet and the Bitter* (2007), Editor
- *The Missing Star* (2006), Editor
- *La provinciale* (2006), series, Editor
- *The Life I Want* (2004), Editor
- *The Keys to the House* (2004), Editor
- *Opopomoz* (2003), Editor
- *Pinocchio* (2002), Editor
- *Momo* (2001), Editor
- *Amarsi può darsi* (2001), Editor
- *Against the Wind* (2000), Editor
- *Fate un bel sorriso* (2000), Editor
- *A casa di Irma* (1999), Editor
- *La fame e la sete* (1999), Editor
- *Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale* (1999), Editor
- *The Way We Laughed* (1998), Editor
- *Vite in sospeso* (1998), Editor
- *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), Editor — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md)
- *La bruttina stagionata* (1997), Editor
- *Once We Were Strangers* (1997), Editor
- *La terza luna* (1997), Editor
- *Lamerica* (1994), Editor
- *Cominciò tutto per caso* (1993), Editor
- *The Stolen Children* (1992), Editor
- *Barocco* (1991), Editor
- *Matilda* (1990), Editor
- *Traces of an Amorous Life* (1990), Editor
- *Open Doors* (1990), Editor
- *Via Panisperna Boys* (1989), Assistant Editor
- *Thus Spoke Bellavista* (1984), Assistant Editor
- *Le Angelesse*, Editor
- *The Fate of the Bee*, Editor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1999: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *Life Is Beautiful*

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

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/simona-paggi