Paolo Sorrentino
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.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 9.543 |
Birthday | 1970-05-31 |
Place of Birth | Naples, Campania, Italy |
Also Known As | Паоло Соррентино, 파올로 소렌티노, パオロ・ソレンティーノ, |
2014
Three Touches
4.5/11
Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With ab...
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Three Touches
2009
A Matter of Heart
6.277/74
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. A...
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A Matter of Heart
2004
I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto
0/0
Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.
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I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto
2016
Cinque mondi
6.5/3
Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.
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Cinque mondi
2015
Cercando La grande bellezza
7.7/10
Drama, documentary
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Cercando La grande bellezza
2009
What Do You Know About Me
0/0
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...
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What Do You Know About Me
2006
The Caiman
6.711/247
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...
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The Caiman
2021
The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino
6.547/32
Director Paolo Sorrentino returns to Naples, his hometown, and reflects on his youth in an exclusive tour of the locations of “The Hand of God”.
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The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino
2021
We Are Cinema
0/0
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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We Are Cinema
2023
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
7.744/43
The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming...
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Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
2023
Room 999
6/4
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes...
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Room 999
2013
The Great Beauty
7.508/3018
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks...
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