Giuseppe Tornatore
Born: 1956-05-27 in Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2025
- Brunello - Il visionario garbato ... (Director)
- Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore ... (Director)
2024
- Titanus 1904 as Self
2022
- Ennio as Self
- Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
2021
- All Star - Ritorno al cinema as Proiezionista
2020
- Good Morning, the Wind Blows as Himself
- Devotion ... (Director)
2019
- Citizen Rosi as Self
- Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana as Self
- Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa as Self
2018
- 24/25 Il fotogramma in più as Self
2016
- Correspondence ... (Writer)
- Cinque mondi as Self
2014
- Mafia Millionaires ... (Thanks)
- Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth as Self
- Tutte le storie di Piera
- Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima as Self
- C'era una volta il prossimamente as Self
- Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori as Self
2013
- The Best Offer ... (Director)
2011
- Il Mago di Esselunga ... (Director)
2010
2009
- Baaria ... (Director)
- Everybody's Fine ... (Original Film Writer)
- Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2006
- The Unknown Woman ... (Screenplay)
- Marcello, una vita dolce as Self
- Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema as Self
- A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise as Self
2004
- The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
- Under a False Name ... (Thanks)
2002
- The Magic of Fellini as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Malena ... (Director)
- A Dream of Sicily as Self
- The Prince's Manuscript ... (Producer)
1998
- The Legend of 1900 ... (Director)
1997
- Bakunin's Son ... (Producer)
- The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth as Self
1995
- The Star Maker ... (Director)
- Lo schermo a tre punte ... (Screenplay)
- Ennio Morricone as Self
1994
- A Pure Formality ... (Director)
1991
- Especially on Sunday ... (Director)
- The King of Ads ... (Director)
1990
- Everybody's Fine ... (Director)
1988
- Cinema Paradiso as Projectionist (uncredited)
1986
- The Professor ... (Director)
1984
- One Hundred Days in Palermo ... (Screenplay)
1982
- Diario di Guttuso ... (Director)