Giuseppe Tornatore
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.
Known For
Cinema Paradiso
Ennio
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
The Magic of Fellini
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Ennio Morricone
Marcello, una vita dolce
All Movies (33)
- Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis2026 · as Self
- Ferdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra2025 · as Self
- Titanus 19042024 · as Self
- Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America2022 · as Self
- Ennio2022 · as Self
- All Star - Ritorno al cinema2021 · as Proiezionista
- Good Morning, the Wind Blows2020 · as Self
- Citizen Rosi2019 · as Self
- Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana2019 · as Self
- Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa2019 · as Self
- 24/25 Il fotogramma in più2018 · as Self
- Cinque mondi2016 · as Self
- I Don't Know the Men of this City2015
- Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa2015 · as Self
- Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima2014 · as Self
- Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori2014 · as Self
- Tutte le storie di Piera2014
- Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth2014 · as Self
- C'era una volta il prossimamente2014 · as Self
- Dante Ferretti: Production Designer2010 · as Self
- L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo2010 · as Self
- Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso2009
- Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema2007
- A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise2006 · as Self
- Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema2006 · as Self
- Marcello, una vita dolce2006 · as Self
- The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth2004 · as Self
- The Magic of Fellini2002 · as Self (archive footage)
- A Dream of Sicily2000 · as Self
- The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth1997 · as Self
- Ennio Morricone1995 · as Self
- Cinema Paradiso1988 · as Projectionist (uncredited)
- The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso—
All TV Shows (1)
- Quelli che il cinema2025 · as Self