Biography
Simona Paggi is an Italian film editor born on 29 December 1962 in Milan. She trained in photography and graphics at the ITSOS institute before studying film editing at the Albedo film school in Milan. She began working in the 1980s as an assistant editor and on documentaries before making her feature debut as editor on Gianni Amelio’s Open Doors (1990).
Paggi has maintained a long collaboration with Amelio on films including The Stolen Children (1992), for which she won the David di Donatello for Best Editing, Lamerica (1994) and The Way We Laughed (1998). She edited Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful (1997), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing. Other credits include work with Emanuele Crialese, John Turturro and films such as Pinocchio (2002), Fading Gigolo (2013) and Lord of the Ants (2022). She has contributed to more than eighty productions.
