Giuseppe Tornatore Articles

Harrison Ford in Andrew Davis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated The Fugitive (top); Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins in Robert Altman's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated Short Cuts (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1980s: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch 1990 DGA Barry Levinson, Avalon Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso [the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner; ineligible for the 1990 Academy [...]

Stefania Sandrelli, Valerio Mastandrea in Paolo Virzi's The First Beautiful Thing (top); Giuseppe Tornatore's Baaria (middle); Ferzan Ozpetek's Loose Cannons (bottom) Here's a belated report on the 2010 David di Donatello awards. The nominations for Italy's Oscars were announced last week. Paolo Virzi's La prima cosa bella / The First Beautiful Thing, a sentimental comedy-drama about a bitter man (Valerio Mastandrea) who ends up finding [...]

Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi in Marco Bellocchio's Vincere Best Film BAARÌA produced by Medusa Film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore MINE VAGANTI / LOOSE CANNONS produced by Domenico Procacci directed by Ferzan Ozpetek LA PRIMA COSA BELLA / THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING produced by Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib for Medusa Film Motorino Amaranto, Indiana Production directed by Paolo Virzì L'UOMO CHE VERRA' produced by [...]

Best Foreign Language Film Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon This is another category (see best actor – comedy or musical) that is hard to predict because of the absence of a clear front-runner. The closest to a "favorite" is Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes and of several critics' awards in the United States. Working for it: Prestige, relevance, [...]