Franco Zeffirelli, Oscar-nominated director of 'Romeo and Juliet,' dies at 96
Franco Zeffirelli, whose opulent set designs and sweeping directorial style bolstered operatic films, religious epics and Shakespearean love stories, has died. He was 96.Romeo and JulietThe Hollywood Reporter. , which starred then-unknown teenagers Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, also received a best picture nomination and garnered Academy Awards for cinematography and costume design, indicative of Zeffirelli's visual emphasis .
The film also introduced a new generation to Shakespearean tragedy, created notoriety at the time for showing Hussey topless and was a big hit for Paramount when the studio was in dire need of one.The Taming of the Shrew , starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at the peak of their careers. And in 1990, he helmed a well-receivedOn the casting of Gibson, Zeffirelli once said, "He gave a magnificent performance [in the first]," he said. "I thought, 'That's it. He is attractive, he is naughty, he is dangerous.' "
Zeffirelli staged opera in an epic style and drenched movies in the pathos of opera. His works were unabashedly sweeping extravaganzas that were popular with tourists and were moneymakers for such auspicious venues as the Metropolitan Opera in New York., the boxing-movie remake starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder, and, which starred a young Brooke Shields . Zeffirelli's first cut on the latter received an X rating.
, about the life of St. Francis of Assisi, and five years later, he helmed the international miniseries
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