The Guardian: ‘Our bond is private. Some things have to stay between us’: Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo on smoking, cinema and secrets
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Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino 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 accepted for Best International Film, a BAFTA Awa…
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entertainment · Italian film director and screenwriter · film director · screenwriter · actor · playwright · director · film producer · also Paolo Sorrentino, Sorrentino
Born 31 May 1970 · Q374678
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: La Grazia review – Paolo Sorrentino opens mighty window on Italian leader’s despair
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Sorrentino confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the Jennifer Lawrence projects Mob Girl and Sue would not be going forward
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
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2023· 1 entry
It was reported Sorrentino was directing another "love letter to Naples", Parthenope, the cast to include Gary Oldman
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2021· 6 entries
The Guardian: How Maradona inspired Paolo Sorrentino’s film about Naples, Hand of God – and inadvertently saved his life
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The Guardian: The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino relives his teens in a film of two halves
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The Guardian: Paolo Sorrentino: ‘Let’s say that almost everything is true’
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The Guardian: The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino tells his own Maradona story
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The Guardian: The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino exposes his childhood trauma
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Sorrentino will next direct the biopic Sue starring and produced by Lawrence as well
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2019· 1 entry
It was announced that Sorrentino would be directing Jennifer Lawrence as mob informant Arlyne Brickman in Mob Girl
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Film for Youth (2015).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Director for Youth (2015).
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Sorrentino was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the American University of Rome
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Director for The Great Beauty (2013).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Non-English Language Film (2013).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Film for The Great Beauty (2013).
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2009· 1 entry
It was announced Sorrentino wrote the screenplay for a film version of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel Ti prendo e ti porto via (Steal You Away)
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2004· 1 entry
For his thriller The Consequences of Love
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1970· 1 entry
Born 1970-05-31.
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