Giuseppe Tornatore
Directing • Born 1956-05-27
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
32 credits
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Movie • 2019
Self
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
Movie • 2014
Self
Ennio
Movie • 2022
Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Movie • 2004
Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
Movie • 2022
Self
C'era una volta il prossimamente
Movie • 2014
Self
Cinema Paradiso
Movie • 1988
Projectionist (uncredited)
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Movie • 2009
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Movie • 2014
Self
A Dream of Sicily
Movie • 2000
Self
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
Movie • 2015
Self
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
Movie • 2018
Self
Cinque mondi
Movie • 2016
Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Movie • 2010
Self
Citizen Rosi
Movie • 2019
Self
Ennio Morricone
Movie • 1995
Self
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Movie • 2010
Self
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
Movie • 1997
Self
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
Movie • 2014
Self
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
Movie • 2019
Self
The Magic of Fellini
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Movie • 2006
Self
Marcello, una vita dolce
Movie • 2006
Self
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Movie • 2020
Himself
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Movie • 2021
Proiezionista
Titanus 1904
Movie • 2024
Self
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
Movie • 2006
Self
Tutte le storie di Piera
Movie • 2014
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
Movie • 2007
I Don't Know the Men of this City
Movie • 2015
The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso
Movie
Quelli che il cinema
TV • 2025
Self