Giuseppe Tornatore
Director

Giuseppe Tornatore

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Known For Directing
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Birthday May 27, 1956 (70 years old)
Place of Birth Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia
Also Known As Peppuccio Tornatore
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Biography

Giuseppe TornatoreΒ (born 27 May 1956) is an ItalianΒ film directorΒ andΒ screenwriter. Born inΒ BagheriaΒ nearΒ Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works byΒ Luigi PirandelloΒ andΒ Eduardo De Filippo. He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut withΒ Le minoranze etniche in SiciliaΒ (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary film which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked forΒ RAIΒ before releasing his first full-length film,Β Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evoked a positive response from audience and critics alike and Tornatore was awarded theΒ Silver RibbonΒ forΒ best new director. Tornatore's best known screen work was released in 1988:Β Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a film narrating the life of a successful film director who has returned to his native town inΒ SicilyΒ for the funeral of his mentor. This obtained worldwide success and won anΒ Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.Β Subsequently Tornatore released several other films. In 2007 he won the Silver George for Best Director at theΒ 29th Moscow International Film FestivalΒ forΒ The Unknown Woman.

Filmography (34)

Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis 2026
Ferdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra 2025
Quelli che il cinema 2025
Titanus 1904 2024
Ennio 2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America 2022
All Star - Ritorno al cinema 2021
Good Morning, the Wind Blows 2020
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema Γ¨ una cosa meravigliosa 2019
Citizen Rosi 2019
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana 2019
24/25 Il fotogramma in piΓΉ 2018
Cinque mondi 2016
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa 2015
I Don't Know the Men of this City 2015
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth 2014
C'era una volta il prossimamente 2014
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima 2014
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori 2014
Tutte le storie di Piera 2014
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo 2010
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer 2010
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso 2009
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema 2007
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise 2006
Marcello, una vita dolce 2006
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema 2006
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth 2004
The Magic of Fellini 2002
A Dream of Sicily 2000
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth 1997
Ennio Morricone 1995
Cinema Paradiso 1988
The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso

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