Giuseppe Tornatore

Known for DirectingBorn 1956-05-27 (age 70)Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia

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

Movies & web series

Brunello: The Gracious Visionary

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

I Don't Know the Men of this City

Ennio

Cinema Paradiso

The Legend of 1900

The Prince's Manuscript

Citizen Rosi

Lo schermo a tre punte

The Best Offer

All Star - Ritorno al cinema

Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Malena

A Pure Formality

Baaria

The Unknown Woman

Everybody's Fine

The Star Maker

The Professor

Bakunin's Son

Everybody's Fine

One Hundred Days in Palermo

Ennio Morricone

Cinque mondi

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Correspondence

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

Mafia Millionaires

24/25 Il fotogramma in più

Especially on Sunday

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore

Under a False Name

Marcello, una vita dolce

The King of Ads

The Magic of Fellini

Il Mago di Esselunga

Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis

Ferdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra

Quelli che il cinema

Titanus 1904

Good Morning, the Wind Blows

Devotion

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth

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