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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
May 27, 1956
Place of Birth
Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia
Also Known As
- Peppuccio Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore
2.3 Popularity
Biography
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
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Self
Titanus 1904
2024
7.4
Self
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
8.3
Self
Ennio
2022
7.6
Proiezionista
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021
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Himself
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020
7.8
Self
Citizen Rosi
2019
7.6
Self
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
2019
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Self
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019
6.0
Self
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
2018
6.5
Self
Cinque mondi
2016
Credits
Titanus 1904
as Self
2024
0.0
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
as Self
2022
7.4
Ennio
as Self
2022
8.3
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
as Proiezionista
2021
7.6
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
as Himself
2020
0.0
Citizen Rosi
as Self
2019
7.8
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
as Self
2019
7.6
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
as Self
2019
0.0
24/25 Il fotogramma in più
as Self
2018
6.0
Cinque mondi
as Self
2016
6.5
I Don't Know the Men of this City
2015
8.3
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Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
as Self
2015
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Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
as Self
2014
9.0
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
as Self
2014
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Tutte le storie di Piera
2014
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Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
as Self
2014
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C'era una volta il prossimamente
as Self
2014
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Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
as Self
2010
6.3
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
as Self
2010
6.5
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
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Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007
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A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
as Self
2006
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Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
as Self
2006
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Marcello, una vita dolce
as Self
2006
5.2
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
as Self
2004
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The Magic of Fellini
as Self (archive footage)
2002
2.8
A Dream of Sicily
as Self
2000
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The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
as Self
1997
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Ennio Morricone
as Self
1995
6.7
Cinema Paradiso
as Projectionist (uncredited)
1988
8.4
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The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso
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