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Gianni Amelio

Film Director / Screenwriter | * 01/20/1945 (79) | Magisano, Catanzaro (Italy)
Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945) is an Italian film director. ()

Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945; Catanzaro) is an Italian film director. His film "The Way We Laughed" (1998) won a Golden Lion at the 55th Venice Film Festival.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 absence of a paternal figures will be a constant in Amelio's future works. During his university studies of philosophy in Messina, Amelio got interested in cinema, writing as film critic for a local magazine. In 1965 he moved to Rome, where he worked as operator and assistant director for figures such as Liliana Cavani and Vittorio De Seta. He also worked for television, directing documentaries and advertisements.Amelio's first important work is the TV film "Sun City", directed in 1973 for RAI TV and inspired to Tommaso Campanella's work. This was followed by "The Cinema According to Bertolucci" (1976) a documentary about "1900" shooting, and the thriller "Special Effects" (1978). Two years later he directed the mystery "Death at Work" (1978), which won prizes at Locarno and Hyères festivals. "The Little Archimedes" of 1979 was also critically acclaimed. In 1982 he debuted for cinema proper with "Blow to the Heart" (1982), about Italian terrorism, presented at the Venice Film Festival. In 1987 Amelio released "Via Panisperna Boys", about the lives of 1930 Italian physicists such as Enrico Fermi and Edoardo Amaldi, which won the award for best screenplay at the Bari Film Festival. 1989's "Open Doors", featuring Gian Maria Volonté, confirmed Amelio's status as one of Italy's best film directors and won a nomination as Best Foreign Film at 1991 Academy Awards. The film received also four Felix, two Silver Ribbon, four David di Donatello and three Golden Globes awards. Also successful was "The Stolen Children" in 1992, which won the Special Prize of Jury at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival plus two Silver Ribbon and 5 David di Donatello. In 1994 "Lamerica", about Albanian immigration in Italy, repeated the fate and the success, with 2 Silver Ribbons and 3 Davids. Four years later, "The Way We Laughed" won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Amelio gained another Silver Ribbon as best director for "The Keys to the House", inspired to a novel by Giuseppe Pontiggia, of 2004. Amelio was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. In 2006 he released his eighth feature film, "The Missing Star", featuring Sergio Castellitto. From 2009 to 2012 he has been director of Torino Film Festival, Turin.Amelio came out as gay late in life, shortly before the release of his 2014 documentary "Happy to be Different".

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | TV Movies

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Awards & Nominations for Gianni Amelio

Category:Venice Best Director Silver Lion winners Goya Award for Best European Film 3x European Film Award for Best Film 3x European Film Award for Best Film David di Donatello for Best Director
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Movies with Gianni Amelio as Actor(3)

as himself2019 Colpiti al cuore
as l'accompagnatore1970 The End of the Game

Movies with Gianni Amelio as Crew(46)

Directing/Director2022 Lord of the Ants
Writing/Screenplay2022 Lord of the Ants
Directing/Director2020 Hammamet
Writing/Screenplay2020 Hammamet
Writing/Story2020 Hammamet
Directing/Director2019 Pastime
Writing/Screenplay2019 Pastime
Directing/Director2017 Tenderness
Writing/Screenplay2017 Tenderness
Directing/Director2017 Someone Else's Home
Directing/Director2014 Happy to Be Different
Writing/Writer2014 Happy to Be Different
Directing/Director2013 Intrepido: A Lonely Hero
Writing/Screenplay2013 Intrepido: A Lonely Hero
Writing/Story2013 Intrepido: A Lonely Hero
Directing/Director2011 The First Man
Writing/Writer2011 The First Man
Directing/Director2006 The Missing Star
Writing/Screenplay2006 The Missing Star
Writing/Story2006 The Missing Star
Directing/Director2004 The Keys to the House
Directing/Director1998 The Way We Laughed
Writing/Writer1998 The Way We Laughed
Directing/Director1994 Lamerica
Writing/Screenplay1994 Lamerica
Writing/Story1994 Lamerica
Directing/Director1992 The Stolen Children
Directing/Director1990 Open Doors
Writing/Screenplay1990 Open Doors
Directing/Director1989 Via Panisperna Boys
Writing/Writer1989 Via Panisperna Boys
Directing/Director1982 Blow to the Heart
Writing/Story1982 Blow to the Heart
Directing/Director1979 The Little Archimedes
Writing/Screenplay1979 The Little Archimedes
Directing/Director1978 Special Effects
Directing/Director1978 Death at Work
Writing/Writer1978 Death at Work
Directing/Director1976 The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Directing/Director1973 Sun City
Directing/Director1970 The End of the Game
Directing/First Assistant Director1968 The Seven Cervi Brothers
Directing/Assistant Director1967 Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
Directing/Script Supervisor1966 Almost a Man

Full Name: Gianni Amelio
Citizenship: Italy
Born: Saturday, 01/20 1945 (January) in Magisano, Catanzaro (Italy) (current age: 79 years + 69 days)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: Italian (IT)
Educated at: University of Messina
Other names for Gianni Amelio (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Джанни Амелио"
Gianni Amelio frequently works together with these people:
Franco Piersanti (9x, Crew)
Simona Paggi (8x, Crew)
Luca Bigazzi (5x, Crew)
Renato Carpentieri (5x, Actor)
Vincenzo Cerami (4x, Crew)
Edoardo Petti (4x, Crew)
Giancarlo Basili (4x, Crew)
Vittorio De Seta (4x, Crew)
Alessandro Zanon (3x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:848332, Added: 11/13/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024