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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.
As director
Brunello: The Gracious Visionary
Ennio
Devotion
Correspondence
The Best Offer
Il Mago di Esselunga
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Baaria
The Unknown Woman
Malena
The Legend of 1900
The Star Maker
Lo schermo a tre punte
A Pure Formality
Especially on Sunday
The King of Ads
Everybody's Fine
Cinema Paradiso
The Professor
Diario di Guttuso
Il sognatore indiscreto
The First Dollar
As actor
Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis
Ferdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra
Titanus 1904
Ennio
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Citizen Rosi
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
Cinque mondi
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
I Don't Know the Men of this City
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
C'era una volta il prossimamente
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
Tutte le storie di Piera
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Marcello, una vita dolce
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
The Magic of Fellini
A Dream of Sicily
The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth