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.
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Movies (61)
Juso per ferie
2026 · Self
Aldeas: A New Story
2026 · Self
Brunello: The Gracious Visionary
2025 · Director, Writer
Ferdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra
2025 · Self
Titanus 1904
2024 · Self
Steno
2022 · Sé stesso
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Self
Ennio: El maestro
2022 · Self, Director, Screenplay, Story
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021 · Proiezionista
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020 · Self
Devotion
2020 · Director
Citizen Rosi
2019 · Self
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
2019 · Self
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019 · Self
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
2018 · Self
Cinque mondi
2016 · Self
Correspondence
2016 · Writer, Director
I Don't Know the Men of this City
2015
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
2015 · Self
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
2014 · Self
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
2014 · Self
Mafia Millionaires
2014 · Thanks
Tutte le storie di Piera
2014
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
2014 · Self
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014 · Self
The Best Offer
2013 · Director, Writer
Il Mago di Esselunga
2011 · Director, Writer
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
2010 · Self
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010 · Self, Director
Están todos bien
2009 · Original Film Writer
Baaria
2009 · Director, Writer
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
2006 · Self
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
2006 · Self
The Unknown Woman
2006 · Screenplay, Director
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006 · Self
Under a False Name
2004 · Thanks
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Self
The Magic of Fellini
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Malena
2000 · Director, Screenplay
A Dream of Sicily
2000 · Self
The Prince's Manuscript
2000 · Producer
The Legend of 1900
1998 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
Bakunin's Son
1997 · Producer
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997 · Self
The Star Maker
1995 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Lo schermo a tre punte
1995 · Screenplay, Director
Ennio Morricone
1995 · Self
A Pure Formality
1994 · Director, Screenplay, Story, Editor
The King of Ads
1991 · Director
Especially on Sunday
1991 · Director, Adaptation
Everybody's Fine
1990 · Director, Writer
Cinema Paradiso
1988 · Projectionist (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story
The Professor
1986 · Director, Screenplay, Story
One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984 · Screenplay, Second Unit Director
Diario di Guttuso
1982 · Director
The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso
Il sognatore indiscreto
· Director
With Her Eyes
· Writer
The First Dollar
· Director, Writer
