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Giuseppe Tornatore

Highest Rated: 91% Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Lowest Rated: 13% Correspondence (2016)

Birthday: May 27, 1956

Birthplace: Bagheria, Italy

Sicilian-born Giuseppe Tornatore proved a prodigy of sorts, beginning his career as a prize-winning still photographer. While in his mid-teens, he began directing, first for the stage and then by making the short film "Il Carretto/The Wagon." Eventually Tornatore caught the attention of RAI television and was hired to hem documentaries and TV-movies. In 1982, he garnered attention for his documentary "Ethnic Minorities in Sicily," which picked up a prize at the Salerno Film Festival. He shifted to fictional features co-writing the script to 1983's "Centro Giorni a Palermo/A Hundred Days in Palermo." Three years later, he debuted his first full-length feature as director, "Il Camorrista/The Professor/The Cammora Murder" (1986), a drama about a journalist who runs afoul of gangsters.

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Highest-Rated Movies

91% 96% Cinema Paradiso
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80% 88% A Pure Formality
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75% 81% The Star Maker
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67% 79% The Unknown Woman
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67% 87% Everybody's Fine
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56% 92% The Legend of 1900
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56% 77% The Best Offer
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55% 50% Baarìa
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54% 84% Malena
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Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore Giuseppe Tomatore at arrivals for CINEMA PARADISO at AFI FEST 2014, The Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, CA November 10, 2014. Photo By: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection Danny DeVito, Giuseppe Tomatore at arrivals for CINEMA PARADISO at AFI FEST 2014, The Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, CA November 10, 2014. Photo By: Dee Cercone/Everett Collection THE LEGEND OF 1900, Tim Roth (center), director Giuseppe Tornatore (right), on set, 1998. ©Fine Line Features THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, (aka LA SCONOSCIUTA), director Giuseppe Tornatore, Alessandro Haber, on set, 2006. ©Outsider Pictures A PURE FORMALITY, director Giuseppe Tornatore, Roman Polanski on set, 1994, (c)Sony Pictures Classics CINEMA PARADISO, director Giuseppe Tornatore on the set, 1989 THE STAR MAKER (AKA L'UOMO DELLE STELLE), Sergio Catellitto, director Guiseppe Tornatore, on set, 1995. ©Miramax©Miramax THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, (aka LA SCONOSCIUTA), Xenia Rappoport, Claudia Gerini, director Giuseppe Tornatore, on set, 2006. ©Outsider Pictures View more photos

Filmography

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The Glance of Music 2022 Self, Director, Writer Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America 90% 2022 Self Ennio 91% 93% 2021 Director, Screenwriter Cecchi Gori: Una famiglia italiana 2019 Self Correspondence 13% 41% 2016 Director, Screenwriter The Best Offer 56% 77% 2013 Director, Screenwriter Baarìa 55% 50% 2009 Director, Writer The Unknown Woman 67% 79% 2007 Director, Writer Malena 54% 84% 2000 Director The Prince's Manuscript 2000 Producer The Legend of 1900 56% 92% 1998 Director, Screenwriter The Three-Cornered Screen 1995 Director The Star Maker 75% 81% 1995 Director A Pure Formality 80% 88% 1994 Director Especially on Sunday 1991 Director Everybody's Fine 67% 87% 1990 Director Cinema Paradiso 91% 96% 1988 Director, Writer Il Camorrista 67% 1986 Director
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