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Place of Birth: Foggia, Apulia, Italy
About Gabriella Cristiani
- Gabriella Cristiani (born 1949) is an Italian film editor with about twenty feature film credits.
- She has had a notable collaboration with director Bernardo Bertolucci.
- Early in her career she assisted editor Franco Arcalli on two of Bertolucci's films, Last Tango in Paris (1972) and 1900 (1976).
- Arcalli was the "supervising editor" on a 1977 film, Berlinguer, I Love You, that was one of Cristiani's first feature editing credits; the film was directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci - Bernardo's brother.
- Arcalli was to have edited Bernardo Bertolucci's next film, La Luna (1979), but he died during production; Cristiani, who was assisting, then took over as editor.Cristiani edited Bernardo Bertolucci's 1982 film Tragedy of a Ridulous Man.
- She won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for The Last Emperor (1987), which won a total of 9 Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Director (for Bertolucci)) as well as numerous other honors.
- Cristiani's work on Bertolucci's next film, The Sheltering Sky (1990), is noted for a technical innovation, which was the "nonlinear" editing of the film using digital techniques.
- Sheltering Sky was Cristiani's final film with Bertolucci.
- Cristiani has edited films over the last decade with several different directors, and she herself directed and edited the 1999 film, Ladies Room.
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