Claudio Bonivento (born 14 November 1950) is an Italian film producer, director, and screenwriter.

Life and career

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, Bonivento began his career as a theatrical organizer, an agent and a record producer. In the late 1970s he started working as a film, television and stage producer. In 1997 he made his directorial debut with '' Other Men''. In 1989 Bonivento won the

Nastro d'Argento The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

for Best Producer for

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's '' Forever Mery''. He also won three

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David (Donatello, bronze), David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (the Academy of Italian Cin ...

for Best Producer in 1991, 1993 and 2011, respectively for '' Boys on the Outside'', '' The Escort'' and '' 20 Cigarettes''.

Selected filmography

;Producer * '' I fichissimi'' (1981) * '' Viuuulentemente mia'' (1982) * '' I'm Going to Live by Myself'' (1982) * '' Eccezzziunale... veramente'' (1982) * '' Time for Loving'' (1983) * '' A Boy and a Girl'' (1984) * '' Chewingum'' (1984) * ''

Love at First Sight Love at first sight is a personal experience and a common theme in creative works: a person or character feels an instant, extreme, and ultimately long-lasting romantic attraction for a stranger upon first seeing that stranger. It has been desc ...

'' (1985) * '' Blues metropolitano'' (1985) * '' Il ragazzo del Pony Express'' (1986) * '' Soldati - 365 all'alba'' (1987) * '' Sweets from a Stranger'' (1987) * '' Sposi'' (1987) * '' Delitti e profumi'' (1988) * '' Appointment in Liverpool'' (1988) * ''

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'' (1988) * '' Forever Mery'' (1989) * '' Boys on the Outside'' (1990) * '' Pummarò'' (1991) * '' A Simple Story'' (1991) * '' The Inner Circle'' (1991) * '' Sabato italiano'' (1992) * '' When We Were Repressed'' (1992) * '' Ultra'' (1992) * '' The Escort'' (1993) * '' Policemen'' (1995) * '' Who Killed Pasolini?'' (1995) ;Director * '' Other Men'' (1997) * '' Le Giraffe'' (2000) * '' Il Pirata: Marco Pantani'' (2007) * '' Era mio fratello'' (2007) * '' Anita Garibaldi'' (2012)

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