Trivia

President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival in 2005.

Father of Edoardo Ferretti.

In 1999, he simultaneously worked on Martin Scorsese's À tombeau ouvert (1999) and Julie Taymor's Titus (1999).

As of 2014, of his ten Oscar nominations (among them 3 wins), eight of them were shared with his wife, set-decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo. The other two nominations were one shared with set-decorator Robert J. Franco and a sole nomination as Best Costume Design.

As of 2017, Dante Ferretti worked with director Martin Scorsese on nine feature films. They are Le Temps de l'innocence (1993), Casino (1995), Kundun (1997), À tombeau ouvert (1999), Gangs of New York (2002), Aviator (2004), Shutter Island (2010), Hugo Cabret (2011) and Silence (2016).