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