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Paolo Sorrentino

Birthday: 1970-05-31
Birthplace: Naples, Campania, Italy


Paolo Sorrentino (Italian: [ˈpaːolo sorrenˈtiːno]; born 31 May 1970; Naples) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today. He is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards. In Italy he was honoured with eight David di Donatello and six Nastro d'Argento. Sorrentino made his directorial film debut with the Italian comedy-drama One Man Up (2001) for which he received the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director followed by The Consequences of Love (2004), The Family Friend (2006), and This Must Be the Place (2011). The biographical drama Il Divo (2009) was awarded the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize. He received critical acclaim with the art drama The Great Beauty (2013) which won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He followed with Youth (2015), Loro (2018), and The Hand of God (2021) the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He is also known for his work on television creating and directing the HBO drama series The Young Pope (2016), and The New Pope (2019). He worked with songwriters Antonello Venditti, Paloma Faith and Mark Kozelek and written three books published in Italian. He works with authors and producers including Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano, Toni Servillo and Luca Bigazzi. Actors in his films have included Sabrina Ferilli, Michael Caine, Fanny Ardant, Harvey Keitel, Isabella Ferrari, Elena Sofia Ricci, Sean Penn, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jude Law, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Nanni Moretti, Filippo Scotti, Carlo Verdone, Antonio Albanese, Frank Langella and Jane Fonda.

Filmography

Room 999
Character: Self

We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
The Great Beauty
Character: Comparsa
Three Touches
Character: se stesso

A Matter of Heart
Character: se stesso
Cinque mondi
Character: Self

What Do You Know About Me
Character: Self
The Caiman
Character: il marito di Aidra in "Cataratte"

The Consequences of Love
Job: Screenplay

Il Divo
Job: Director
The Family Friend
Job: Director

One Man Up
Job: Screenplay
One Man Up
Job: Director
This Must Be the Place
Job: Director

The Hand of God
Job: Producer
The Dust of Naples
Job: Screenplay
Parthenope
Job: Producer

The Great Beauty
Job: Screenplay
The Great Beauty
Job: Director
I Told You So
Job: Producer

The Hand of God
Job: Screenplay
Youth
Job: Director
Roma, santa e dannata
Job: Creative Producer

Sabbia
Job: Director
Youth
Job: Writer
Paradise
Job: Director

The Long Night
Job: Writer
The Long Night
Job: Director
Loro 1
Job: Writer

Loro 1
Job: Director
Rio, I Love You
Job: Director
The Slow Game
Job: Screenplay

The Slow Game
Job: Director
Parthenope
Job: Writer
Parthenope
Job: Director

The Family Friend
Job: Screenplay
Drogheria
Job: First Assistant Director
The Other Half
Job: Presenter

Ladri di futuro
Job: First Assistant Director
Paradise
Job: Writer

Sventramento
Job: Director of Photography
Le voci di dentro
Job: Stage Director
Saturday, Sunday & Monday
Job: Stage Director

In the Mirror
Job: Director
Man Who Check the Meter
Job: Assistant Unit Manager
Nature: Consuelo
Job: Supervising Producer

Fiat Croma
Job: Director
Napoli 24
Job: Writer
In the Mirror
Job: Writer

The Dream
Job: Director
The Dream
Job: Writer

The Flood
Job: Associate Producer
Loro 2
Job: Writer

Loro 2
Job: Director
L'infinito
Job: Screenplay
Loro
Job: Director

Loro
Job: Writer
Lost Love
Job: Producer
Love Has No Bounds
Job: Director

Love Has No Bounds
Job: Writer

Killer in Red
Job: Screenplay
Killer in Red
Job: Director
Il Divo
Job: Screenplay

Napoli 24
Job: Director
Rio, I Love You
Job: Writer
The Hand of God
Job: Director

Amanda
Job: Thanks
La Grazia
Job: Director
La Grazia
Job: Producer

La Grazia
Job: Writer
Le voci di dentro
Job: Director

Föa
Job: Producer