Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore

Infobox actor


name = Giuseppe Tornatore
birthdate = birth date and age|1956|5|27
location = Bagheria, Sicily, Italy
occupation = Film director and screenwriter
academyawards = Best Foreign Language Film
1990 "Nuovo cinema Paradiso"
baftaawards = Best Foreign Film
1990 "Nuovo cinema Paradiso"
Best Original Screenplay
1990 "Nuovo cinema Paradiso"
goldenglobeawards = Best Foreign Language Film
1990 "Nuovo cinema Paradiso"

Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director.

Biography

Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore shown interest in theatre and acting well from the age of 16. His early career was being a freelance photographer, then switched to cinema. He began with a collaboration making his debut with a documentary movie called "Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia" (Ethnical minorities in Sicily), which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then went on working for RAI, before releasing his first full-length movie, "Il Camorrista", in 1985.

However, Tornatore's best known screen work was released in 1989: "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso", a movie about the return of a successful film director to his native town in Sicily for the funeral of an old friend of his, obtained worldwide success and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Following the success of "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso", Tornatore released several other movies cementing his place in film history.

Filmography

Director

*1986: "The Professor (Il camorrista)"
*1989: "Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)"
*1990: "Everybody's Fine (Stanno tutti bene)"
*1993: "Especially on Sunday" (segment "Il cane blu")
*1994: "A Pure Formality (Una pura formalità)"
*1995: "The Star Maker (L'uomo delle stelle)"
*1995: "Lo schermo a tre punte" (documentary)
*1996: "" documentary)
*1998: "The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano)"
*2000: "Malèna"
*2006: "The Unknown Woman (La sconosciuta)"
*2008: "Baaria - La porta del vento"
*TBA: "Leningrad"

Writer

*"Cento giorni a Palermo" ("Cent jours à Palerme"), directed by Giuseppe Ferrara (1984) - quoted as Peppuccio Tornatore

External links

*Imdb name|id=0868153|name=Giuseppe Tornatore


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