Giuseppe Tornatore

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia, 1956-05-27

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	Cinema Paradiso	Projectionist (uncredited)	84
2	1995	Ennio Morricone	Self	67
3	1997	The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth	Self	0
4	2000	A Dream of Sicily	Self	0
5	2002	The Magic of Fellini	Self (archive footage)	28
6	2004	The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth	Self	0
7	2006	Marcello, una vita dolce	Self	52
8	2006	Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema	Self	0
9	2006	A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise	Self	0
10	2007	Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema		0
11	2009	Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso		0
12	2010	L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo	Self	65
13	2010	Dante Ferretti: Production Designer	Self	63
14	2014	C'era una volta il prossimamente	Self	0
15	2014	Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth	Self	0
16	2014	Tutte le storie di Piera		0
17	2014	Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori	Self	0
18	2014	Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima	Self	90
19	2015	Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa	Self	0
20	2016	Cinque mondi	Self	65
21	2018	24/25 Il fotogramma in più	Self	60
22	2019	Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa	Self	0
23	2019	Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana	Self	76
24	2019	Citizen Rosi	Self	78
25	2020	Good Morning, the Wind Blows	Himself	0
26	2021	All Star - Ritorno al cinema	Proiezionista	76
27	2022	Ennio	Self	83
28	2022	Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America	Self	73
29	2024	Titanus 1904	Self	0

Giuseppe Tornatore

Film

Television