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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% 87% 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

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Glance of Music Self,
Director,
Writer 		$79.1K 2022
No Score Yet 100% Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America Self - 2022
90% 93% Ennio Director,
Screenwriter 		- 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cecchi Gori: Una famiglia italiana Self - 2019
13% 41% Correspondence Director,
Screenwriter 		- 2016
56% 77% The Best Offer Director,
Screenwriter 		$82.0K 2013
55% 50% Baarìa Director,
Writer 		$4.9K 2009
67% 79% The Unknown Woman Director,
Writer 		$18.6K 2006
54% 84% Malena Director $3.4M 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Prince's Manuscript Producer - 2000
56% 92% The Legend of 1900 Director,
Screenwriter 		$259.1K 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Three-Cornered Screen Director - 1995
75% 81% The Star Maker Director $116.8K 1995
80% 87% A Pure Formality Director - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Especially on Sunday Director $134.5K 1991
67% 87% Everybody's Fine Director $18.4K 1990
91% 96% Cinema Paradiso Director,
Writer 		$9.1M 1988
No Score Yet 66% Il Camorrista Director - 1986