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Giuseppe Tornatore

 
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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  • Born: 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy
  • Occupation: Director, Writer
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama
  • Career Highlights: A Pure Formality, Cinema Paradiso, The Legend of 1900
  • First Major Screen Credit: Il Camorrista (1986)

Biography

Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore earned international acclaim in 1988 with his second film, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso/Cinema Paradiso. A nostalgic and unabashedly sentimental tribute to the influence of movies on a young boy's life, the film earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Grand Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Tornatore was born in Bagheria, Italy. Before becoming a filmmaker, he was an award-winning still photographer and then a television director who specialized in making documentaries. Tornatore made his feature-film debut in 1985 with Il Camorrista/The Professor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Giuseppe Tornatore
Born 27 March 1956 (1956-03-27) (age 53)
Bagheria, Sicily, Italy
Occupation Film director, producer and screenwriter

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

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Biography

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 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 1989: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a film about the return of a successful film director to his native town in Sicily for the funeral of an old friend. This obtained worldwide success and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Subsequently Tornatore released several other films cementing his place in film history.

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

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