Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Self
Ennio
2022 · Director
Correspondence
2016 · Director
The Best Offer
2013 · Director
Baaria
2009 · Director
The Unknown Woman
2006 · Director
Malena
2000 · Director
The Legend of 1900
1998 · Director
The Star Maker
1995 · Director
A Pure Formality
1994 · Director
Everybody's Fine
1990 · Director
Cinema Paradiso
1988 · Director
The Professor
1986 · Director
May 27, 1956 · 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.
