Manuel De Sica

Manuel De Sica, son of Vittorio, was born in Rome in 1949. A composer of classical, symphonic and chamber music, De Sica is best known by the general public for the over one hundred musical scores he has composed for film and television since 1969. He received an Oscar nomination in 1971 for The Garden of the Finzi-Continis . He won the 1988-89 Italian foreign press Globo d'oro (Golden Globe Award) for the soundtrack of "Ladri Di Saponette" ("The Icicle Thief")