Matteo Garrone is an Italian filmmaker.
Early life
Matteo Garrone was born in
Rome
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, Italy, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, Donatella Rimoldi.
Career
In 1996 Garrone won the ''Sacher d'Oro'', an award sponsored by
Nanni Moretti, with the short film ''Silhouette'', that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, ''Terra di Mezzo'' in 1997.
Garrone won the
European Film Award for Best Director and the
David di Donatello for Best Director for ''
Gomorrah'' (2008).
His film ''
Reality
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Philosophical questions abo ...
'' (2012) won the
Grand Prix at the
2012 Cannes Film Festival.
His films ''
Tale of Tales'' (2015) and ''
Dogman'' (2018) were selected to compete for the
Palme d'Or at the
2015 Cannes Film Festival and the
2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively. 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 ...
awarded Garrone both
Best Producer and
Best Director for ''Dogman''. He received the latter again for ''
Pinocchio
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'' (2019).
In 2019, Garrone was invited to become a member of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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. In 2024, his film ''
Io capitano'' (2023) was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the
96th Academy Awards, representing Italy.
Filmography
Director
Short films
* ''Silhouette'' (1996)
* ''Bienvenido espirito santo'' (1997)
* ''Un caso di forza maggiore'' (1997)
* ''Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni'' (1998)
* ''Before Design: Classic'' (2016)
* ''Delightful'' (2017)
* ''Entering Red'' (2019)
* ''Le mythe Dior'' (2020)
* ''The Tarot Deck'' (''Le château du tarot'') (2021)
Feature films
* 1996 – ''Terra di mezzo''
* 1998 – ''Guests'' (''Ospiti'')
* 2000 – ''Roman Summer'' (''Estate romana'')
* 2002 – ''
The Embalmer'' (''L'imbalsamatore'')
* 2003 – ''
First Love'' (''Primo amore'')
* 2008 – ''
Gomorrah'' (''Gomorra'')
* 2012 – ''
Reality
Reality is the sum or aggregate of everything in existence; everything that is not imagination, imaginary. Different Culture, cultures and Academic discipline, academic disciplines conceptualize it in various ways.
Philosophical questions abo ...
''
* 2015 – ''
Tale of Tales'' (''Il racconto dei racconti'')
* 2018 – ''
Dogman''
* 2019 – ''
Pinocchio
Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel, ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a poor man named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...
''
* 2023 – ''
Io capitano''
Producer
* ''Silhouette'' (1996)
* ''Terra di mezzo'' (1996)
* ''Ospiti'' (1998)
* ''Estate romana'' (2000)
* ''
Mid-August Lunch'' (2008)
Awards and nominations
Collaborators
Garrone likes to work with the same team of filmmakers, often hiring cast and crew from his previous films. Regular members of the 'team' include:
References
Bibliography
*Luciana d'Arcangeli, ‘Fatalmente tua: Garrone, il ''noir'' e le donne’, in the special issue “An Eye on Italy” on Italian Cinema of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review – ''FULGOR,'' Volume 5, Issue 3, June 2018, pp. 14–26 -
https://www.fulgor.online/vol5-issue3-2018-forthcoming
*Luciana d'Arcangeli. "The Films of Matteo Garrone: Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed" in William Hope (ed) "Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium". Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 175–187.
*Pierpaolo De Sanctis, Domenico Monetti, Luca Pallanch. "Non solo Gomorra. Tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone", Rome, Edizioni Sabinae, 2008.
External links
IMDb: Matteo Garrone
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1968 births
Living people
David di Donatello winners
European Film Award for Best Director winners
European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners
Film directors from Rome
Nastro d'Argento winners
Venice Best Director Silver Lion winners