Giuseppe Tornatore
Directing
1956-05-27 · 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.
Filmography
Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis
2026 · Movie
Quelli che il cinema
2025 · Series
Brunello: The Gracious Visionary
2025 · Movie
Ferdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra
2025 · Movie
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025 · Series
Titanus 1904
2024 · Movie
Steno
2022 · Movie
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Movie
Ennio
2022 · Movie
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021 · Movie
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020 · Movie
Devotion
2020 · Movie
Citizen Rosi
2019 · Movie
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
2019 · Movie
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019 · Movie
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
2018 · Movie
Cinque mondi
2016 · Movie
Correspondence
2016 · Movie
I Don't Know the Men of this City
2015 · Movie
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
2015 · Movie
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
2014 · Movie
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
2014 · Movie
Mafia Millionaires
2014 · Movie
Tutte le storie di Piera
2014 · Movie
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
2014 · Movie
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014 · Movie
The Best Offer
2013 · Movie
Il Mago di Esselunga
2011 · Movie
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
2010 · Movie
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010 · Movie
Everybody's Fine
2009 · Movie
Baaria
2009 · Movie
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009 · Movie
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007 · Movie
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
2006 · Movie
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
2006 · Movie
The Unknown Woman
2006 · Movie
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006 · Movie
Under a False Name
2004 · Movie
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Movie
The Magic of Fellini
2002 · Movie
Malena
2000 · Movie
A Dream of Sicily
2000 · Movie
The Prince's Manuscript
2000 · Movie
The Legend of 1900
1998 · Movie
Bakunin's Son
1997 · Movie
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997 · Movie
The Star Maker
1995 · Movie
Lo schermo a tre punte
1995 · Movie
Ennio Morricone
1995 · Movie
A Pure Formality
1994 · Movie
The King of Ads
1991 · Movie
Especially on Sunday
1991 · Movie
Everybody's Fine
1990 · Movie
Cinema Paradiso
1988 · Movie
The Professor
1986 · Movie
One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984 · Movie
Diario di Guttuso
1982 · Movie
Paradiso
Series
With Her Eyes
Movie
The First Dollar
Movie
Il sognatore indiscreto
Movie
The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso
Movie