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1965

  • Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...

    - Il momento della verità (ex aequo)
  • Vittorio De Sica
    Vittorio de Sica
    Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

    - Matrimonio all'italiana (ex aequo)

1966

  • Alessandro Blasetti
    Alessandro Blasetti
    Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole...

    - Io, io, io...e gli altri (ex aequo)
  • Pietro Germi
    Pietro Germi
    Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...

    - The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (ex aequo)

1969

  • Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....

    - Romeo and Juliet
    Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)
    Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian cinematic adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name.The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design; it was also...


1972

  • Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....

    - Brother Sun, Sister Moon
    Brother Sun, Sister Moon
    Brother Sun, Sister Moon is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is a biopic of Saint Francis of Assisi.-Plot:...

     (ex aequo)
  • Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...

    - Giù la testa (ex aequo)

1976

  • Mario Monicelli
    Mario Monicelli
    Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...

    - Amici miei
    Amici miei
    My Friends is a 1975 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Mario Monicelli.The film, which made it to number one on the Italian box-office in front of Steven Spielberg's Jaws, was followed by two sequels, Amici miei Atto II , Amici miei Atto III , directed by Nanni Loy.-Plot:Like in many other...

      (ex-aequo)
  • Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...

    - Cadaveri eccellenti

1977

  • Valerio Zurlini
    Valerio Zurlini
    Valerio Zurlini was an Italian film director, stage director and screenwriter.-Biography:During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party...

    - The Desert of the Tartars
    The Desert of the Tartars
    The Desert of the Tartars is a 1976 award-winning film by Italian director Valerio Zurlini with an international cast, including Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Max von Sydow, Francisco Rabal, Helmut Griem, Giuliano Gemma, Philippe Noiret, Fernando Rey, and Jean-Louis Trintignant...

      (ex aequo)
  • Mario Monicelli
    Mario Monicelli
    Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...

    - Un borghese piccolo piccolo
    Un borghese piccolo piccolo
    An Average Little Man is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is based on on the novel of the same name written by Vincenzo Cerami. The first hour is a fine example of commedia all'italiana but the second part is a psychological drama and a tragedy...


1979

  • Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...

    - Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)
    Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)
    Christ Stopped at Eboli is a 1979 film adaptation of the book of the same name by Carlo Levi. It was directed by Francesco Rosi and stars Gian Maria Volonté as Carlo Levi, with Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Léa Massari, and Irene Papas....


1980

  • Gillo Pontecorvo
    Gillo Pontecorvo
    Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri was released...

    - Operación Ogro
    Operación Ogro
    Operación Ogro was the name given by ETA to the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco the Prime Minister of Spain in 1973...

     (ex aequo)
  • Marco Bellocchio - A Leap in the Dark
    A Leap in the Dark
    A Leap in the Dark is a 1980 Italian film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, who won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes respectively at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the David di Donatello for Best Director.- Plot :Judge Mauro...

     (ex aequo)

1983

  • Paolo e Vittorio Taviani - La notte di San Lorenzo

1987

  • Ettore Scola - La famiglia
    La famiglia (1987 film)
    La famiglia is an Italian award-winning 1987 film, directed by Ettore Scola and starred by Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Noiret and Stefania Sandrelli...


1989

  • Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

    - La leggenda del santo bevitore
    La leggenda del santo bevitore
    La leggenda del santo bevitore is a 1988 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. It tells the story of a drunken homeless man in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to; the film depicts the man's constant frustrations...


1991

  • Marco Risi - Ragazzi fuori
    Ragazzi fuori
    Ragazzi fuori is an Italian language dramatic film directed by Marco Risi in the neo-neorealistic style and written by Aurelio Grimaldi. Released in 1990, it is the sequel to the 1989 film Mery per sempre...

     (ex aequo)
  • Ricky Tognazzi
    Ricky Tognazzi
    Riccardo Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...

    - Ultrà
    Ultra (film)
    Ultra is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. It was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival where Tognazzi won the Silver Bear for Best Director.-Cast:* Claudio Amendola as Principe* Ricky Memphis as Red...

     (ex aequo)

1992

  • Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

    - Stolen Children

1993

  • Roberto Faenza
    Roberto Faenza
    Roberto Faenza is an Italian film director.Born in Turin in 1943, Roberto Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....

    - Jona che visse nella balena (ex aequo)
  • Ricky Tognazzi
    Ricky Tognazzi
    Riccardo Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...

    - La scorta (ex aequo)
  • Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...

     - Il grande cocomero

1994

  • Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro...

    - Perdiamoci di vista (won)
  • Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

     - Caro diario
    Caro diario
    Caro diario is an Italian language, semi-autobiographical film in the style of a documentary directed by Nanni Moretti in 1993. Moretti also played the central character.-Plot:...

  • Pasquale Pozzessere - Padre e figlio

1995

  • Mario Martone
    Mario Martone
    Mario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...

    - L'amore molesto (won)
  • Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

     - Lamerica
    Lamerica
    -Plot:Gino and Fiore are Italian racketeers who come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants....

  • Alessandro D'Alatri - Senza pelle

1996

  • Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

    - The Star Maker
    The Star Maker
    The Star Maker is a 1995 Italian language motion picture. It was produced by Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, while the title role was played by Sergio Castellitto.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Plot:In 1953, Joe...

     (won)
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

     - Stealing Beauty
    Stealing Beauty
    Stealing Beauty is a 1996 drama film directed by Academy Award-winning Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci and written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot. It stars Liv Tyler, D.W. Moffett, Jeremy Irons, and Rachel Weisz...

  • Carlo Lizzani - Celluloide
    Celluloide (film)
    Celluloide is a 1996 Italian film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The story revolves around the making of the Roberto Rosselini film Rome, Open City...

  • Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...

     - Ferie d'agosto

1997

  • Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi
    Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...

    - La tregua (won)
  • Roberto Faenza
    Roberto Faenza
    Roberto Faenza is an Italian film director.Born in Turin in 1943, Roberto Faenza received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....

     - Marianna Ucrìa
  • Wilma Labate - La mia generazione
  • Gabriele Salvatores
    Gabriele Salvatores
    Gabriele Salvatores , is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directed several avant-garde pieces until 1989.In that year, he directed his...

     - Nirvana
    Nirvana (film)
    Nirvana is a science fiction film, produced in Italy in 1997 by director Gabriele Salvatores, starring Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini and Stefania Rocca...

  • Maurizio Zaccaro
    Maurizio Zaccaro
    Maurizio Zaccaro , is an Italian film director, cinematographer, editor and screenwriter.- Biography :Maurizio Zaccaro was born in Milan...

     - Il carniere

1998

  • Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Benigni
    Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...

    - Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful
    Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...

     (won)
  • Mario Martone
    Mario Martone
    Mario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...

     - Teatro di guerra
  • Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...

     - Ovosodo
    Ovosodo
    Ovosodo is a 1997 Italian comedy film, written and directed by Paolo Virzi....


1999

  • Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

    - The Legend of 1900
    The Legend of 1900
    The Legend of 1900 is a 1998 film directed by the Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Tim Roth. This is Tornatore's first English-language film. The film is inspired by a theater monologue, Novecento, by Alessandro Baricco...

     (won)
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

     - Besieged (film)
    Besieged (film)
    Besieged is a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis.It is based on the short story "The Siege" by James Lasdun.-Plot:David Thewlis plays an English pianist/composer living in Rome...

  • Giuseppe Piccioni - Not of this World
    Fuori Dal Mondo
    Not of this World or Fuori Dal Mondo is an awarded Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Piccioni. The translation for Fuori Dal Mondo is 'outside from the world'-Cast:*Margherita Buy: Sister Caterina*Silvio Orlando: Ernesto...


2000

  • Silvio Soldini
    Silvio Soldini
    Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director.Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations.-Filmography:*Drimage *Paesaggio con figure *Giulia in ottobre...

    - Bread and Tulips
    Bread and Tulips
    Bread and Tulips or Pane e tulipani is an award-winning 2000 romance comedy film directed by Italian Director Silvio Soldini, and starring Licia Maglietta and Bruno Ganz...

     (won)
  • Marco Bechis
    Marco Bechis
    Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...

     - Garage Olimpo
    Garage Olimpo
    Olympic Garage is an Argentine drama film, directed by Marco Bechis and written by Bechis and Lara Fremder.The film was produced by Daniel Burman and Diego Dubcovsky , Amedeo Pagani , and Eric Heumann ....

  • Ricky Tognazzi
    Ricky Tognazzi
    Riccardo Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...

     - Canone inverso
    Canone Inverso
    Canone Inverso is a 2000 film directed by Ricky Tognazzi and starring Hans Matheson, Mélanie Thierry, and Lee Williams, and is based on the book Canone Inverso by Italian writer Paolo Maurensig....


2001

  • Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....

    - L'ultimo bacio
    L'ultimo bacio
    L'ultimo bacio is a 2001 Italian comedy-drama movie directed by Gabriele Muccino.It was remade into The Last Kiss in 2006 by Tony Goldwyn starring Zach Braff and Rachel Bilson....

     (won)
  • Marco Tullio Giordana
    Marco Tullio Giordana
    Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...

     - I cento passi
  • Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

     - The Son's Room
    The Son's Room
    The Son's Room is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son...


2002

  • Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

    - Il mestiere delle armi (won)
  • Silvio Soldini
    Silvio Soldini
    Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director.Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations.-Filmography:*Drimage *Paesaggio con figure *Giulia in ottobre...

     - Brucio nel vento
  • Giuseppe Piccioni - Luce dei miei occhi

2003

  • Pupi Avati
    Pupi Avati
    Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...

    - Incantato
    Incantato
    Incantato is a 2003 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Neri Marcorè - Nello* Vanessa Incontrada - Angela* Giancarlo Giannini - Cesare* Nino D'Angelo - Domenico* Sandra Milo - Arabella...

     (won)
  • Marco Bellocchio - My Mother's Smile
    My Mother's Smile
    My Mother's Smile is an Italian film released in 2002 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The original Italian title is L'ora di religione .-Summary:...

  • Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone is an Italian film maker.Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, 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 film ...

     - The Embalmer
    The Embalmer
    is a manga series written and illustrated by Mitsukazu Mihara. It is serialized within the magazine magazine Feel Young, and currently has been collected into 6 volumes by Shodensha. The Embalmer was previously licensed for English release by Tokyopop, and four volumes have been released. The...

  • Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino
    Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films....

     - Remember Me, My Love
    Remember Me, My Love
    Remember Me, My Love is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Gabriele Muccino.Tagline: Some loves are never forgotten.-Plot:...

  • Ferzan Ozpetek
    Ferzan Özpetek
    Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...

     - Facing Windows
    Facing Windows
    Facing Windows is a 2003 Italian movie directed by Ferzan Özpetek.Tagline: Desire knows no bounds.-Plot:...


2004

  • Marco Tullio Giordana
    Marco Tullio Giordana
    Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...

    - The Best of Youth
    The Best of Youth
    The Best of Youth , is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. Originally planned as a four-part mini-series, it was presented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival where it won the prestigious Un Certain Regard award. It was then given a theatrical release in Italy in two three-hour...

     (won)
  • Pupi Avati
    Pupi Avati
    Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...

     - La rivincita di Natale
  • Marco Bellocchio - Good Morning, Night
    Good Morning, Night
    Buongiorno, notte is an Italian film released in 2003 and directed by Marco Bellocchio. The title of the feature film, Good Morning, Night, is taken from a poem by Emily Dickinson.- Plot :...

  • Sergio Castellitto
    Sergio Castellitto
    Sergio Castellitto is an Italian actor and director.Castellitto attended the academy of dramatic art and dedicated himself to theatre soon after, working with many famous actors such as Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo and Enzo Muzii...

     - Don't Move (film)
    Don't Move (film)
    Don't Move is a 2004 Italian film directed by Sergio Castellitto. It stars Penélope Cruz, Claudia Gerini, Elena Perino and the director himself. Both Castellitto and Cruz received critical praise for their performances, as well as several awards, including the prestigious David di Donatello...

  • Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone is an Italian film maker.Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, 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 film ...

     - Primo amore

2005

  • Paolo Sorrentino
    Paolo Sorrentino
    Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino's first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L'amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001...

    - Le conseguenze dell'amore (won)
  • Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

     - The Keys to the House
    The Keys to the House
    The Keys to the House is a 2004 dramatic family film telling the story of a young father meeting his handicapped son for the first time and attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager...

  • Davide Ferrario - Dopo mezzanotte
  • Andrea e Antonio Frazzi - A Children's Story
    A Children's Story
    A Children’s Story , also known as Certain Children in Australia, was directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi in 2004 and is an Italian film which focuses on the life of an eleven year old boy growing up in an environment of poverty and criminality in Naples...

  • Ferzan Ozpetek
    Ferzan Özpetek
    Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...

     - Cuore Sacro
    Cuore Sacro
    Cuore sacro is a 2005 Italian language film which tells the story of an Italian workaholic businesswoman Irene who experiences the loss of two of her friends by suicide...


2006

  • Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

    - The Caiman (won)
  • Antonio Capuano
    Antonio Capuano
    Antonio Capuano was an Argentine actor. He starred in the 1950 film Bólidos de acero under director Carlos Torres Ríos.-External links:. ....

     - La guerra di Mario
  • Michele Placido
    Michele Placido
    Michele Placido is an internationally known Italian actor and director. He is best known for the role of Corrado Cattani in the TV series La Piovra.-Life and career:...

     - Romanzo criminale
    Romanzo Criminale
    Romanzo Criminale is an Italian-language film released in 2005, directed by Michele Placido, a criminal drama, it was highly acclaimed and won 15 awards. It is based on Giancarlo De Cataldo's 2002 novel, which is in turn inspired by the Banda della Magliana true story...

  • Sergio Rubini
    Sergio Rubini
    - Biography :He was born in Grumo Appula but soon moved to Rome to study acting. After some roles in theater, he debuted in a feature film with Figlio mio infinitamente caro , which was followed by Desiderando Giulia and Il caso Moro...

     - La terra
    La Terra
    La Terra is the second studio album by Italian world music pioneers Aktuala. It was released on Bla Bla records in 1974.The cover features a medieval map of the world as it was known surrounded by the "world ocean"....

  • Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone
    Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Carlo Verdone was born in Rome to Mario Verdone, an important Italian film critic, and during his youth he earned a degree in Modern Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and a degree in Film Direction at the Centro...

     - Il mio miglior nemico

2007 

  • Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

     - La Sconosciuta
    La sconosciuta
    La sconosciuta also The Unknown Woman or The Other Woman is an enigmatic Italian psychological thriller mystery film, directed by Giuseppe Tornatore that depicts a woman alone in a foreign country, haunted by a horrible past, and in search of a lost daughter.- Plot :Irena , a Ukrainian...

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  • Marco Bellocchio - Il regista di matrimoni
  • Emanuele Crialese
    Emanuele Crialese
    Emanuele Crialese is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome. He studied filmmaking in New York City...

     - Nuovomondo
    Nuovomondo
    Nuovomondo literally, new world is a 2006 drama based around a family's migration from Italy to New York during the beginning of the 20th Century. The film is set in both Italy and The United States. The film is written and directed by Emanuele Crialese...

  • Daniele Luchetti
    Daniele Luchetti
    Daniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca and La messa è finita...

     - Mio fratello è figlio unico
  • Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

     - Centochiodi

2008 

  • Andrea Molaioli - La Ragazza del Lago won
  • Cristina Comencini - Black and White
    Black and White (2008 Italian film)
    Black and White is a 2008 Italian romance film directed by Cristina Comencini. The film deals with race and inter-racial relationships when the married Carlo falls in love with Nadine, the wife of his own wife's work colleague.-Cast:...

     (Bianco e Nero)
  • Antonello Grimaldi
    Antonello Grimaldi
    Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, known as Antonello Grimaldi is an Italian actor, film and television director, and screenwriter.-Biography:Grimaldi was born on 14 August 1955 in Sassari,...

     - Caos calmo
  • Carlo Mazzacurati
    Carlo Mazzacurati
    Carlo Mazzacurati is an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980.His better known film include Il Toro and La lingua del santo...

     - La giusta distanza
  • Silvio Soldini
    Silvio Soldini
    Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director.Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations.-Filmography:*Drimage *Paesaggio con figure *Giulia in ottobre...

     - Giorni e nuvole

2009

  • Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone
    Matteo Garrone is an Italian film maker.Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, 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 film ...

     - Gomorrah won
  • Pupi Avati
    Pupi Avati
    Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...

     - Il papà di Giovanna
  • Paolo Sorrentino
    Paolo Sorrentino
    Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino's first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L'amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001...

     - Il Divo
    Il Divo (film)
    Il Divo is a 2008 Italian biographical drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. It competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, where it was awarded the Jury Prize...

  • Fausto Brizzi
    Fausto Brizzi
    Fausto Brizzi is an Italian screenwriter, producer and film director.Fausto Brizzi got a Degree in directing at the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" in July 1994...

     - Ex
    Ex (2009 film)
    Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters.The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema...

  • Giulio Manfredonia - Si può fare

2010

  • Marco Bellocchio - Vincere
    Vincere
    Vincere is a film that is based on the life of the first wife of Benito Mussolini. It stars Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Ida Dalser and Filippo Timi as Benito Albino Mussolini. It was filmed under the direction of Marco Bellocchio, who also wrote the screenplay with Daniela Ceselli, and it was released...

    won
  • Giorgio Diritti - L'uomo che verrà
  • Ferzan Ozpetek
    Ferzan Özpetek
    Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...

     - Mine vaganti
  • Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

     - Baarìa - La porta del vento
    Baarìa - La porta del vento
    Baarìa is a 2009 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It was the opening film of the 66th Venice International Film Festival in September 2009.-Plot:...

     (Baarìa)
  • Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì
    Paolo Virzì is a film director, writer and producer. He is one of the most acclaimed storytellers for the screen and is considered to be one of the major heirs of the Italian-style comedy film tradition.-Biography:...

     - La prima cosa bella
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