Oscar-winning set designer Dante Ferretti will 'dress' the outside of Palazzo del Cinema for the 64th Venice Film Festival, organizers said on Monday.
This will be the third year in a row that Ferretti has lent his talents to the event, which runs from August 29 to September 8.
This year he has decided to incorporate a steel globe which he and the late Federico Fellini had invented for the master's 1979 film Prova d'Orchestra (Orchestra Rehearsal).
Ferretti included the globe in a wall outside the main viewing theatre also to symbolize the new Palazzo del Cinema which will be built in the future on the Lido.
The Italian set designer won his first Oscar in 2005 on his eighth attempt. He picked up the prize together with his wife Francesca Lo Schiavo for their art direction of Martin Scorsese's blockbuster The Aviator.
Ferretti, 64, is a long-time collaborator of Scorsese and won nominations for his work on the Hollywood director's previous film, Gangs of New York, his 1997 movie Kundun and his 1993 costume epic The Age of Innocence.
His other Oscar nominations were for Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989); Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet (1990); and Neil Jordan's Interview With the Vampire (1994).
Ferretti was also nominated for best costume design for his work in Kundun.
This year he recreated the ancient Roman temple of Venus for last month's bash in Rome marking the 45-year career of Italian fashion legend Valentino.
In his over-40-year carrer, Ferretti has also worked with Marco Ferreri, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anthony Menghelli and. most recently, Tim Burton.
