Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino, director and screenwriter, was born in Naples in 1970. In 2001, his first feature film, L’uomo in più, was selected for the Venice Film Festival. In 2004 he shot The Consequences of Love and in 2006 The Family Friend, both in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2008 with Il Divo, he returned to Cannes where he won the Prix du Jury. He returned to the competition in Cannes in 2011 with This Must be the Place and two years later with The Great Beauty with which he won the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the Bafta for Best Foreign Language Film and three EFAs. Selected once again in competition at Cannes in 2016, Youth – Youth won three EFA Awards, received an Academy Award nomination. and two Golden Globes prizes. In 2016 he signed the TV series The Young Pope, nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Male Performance and the Emmy Awards for Scenography and Photography. 2018 is the film Loro starring Toni Servillo. In 2019 he shot the second series set in the Vatican, The New Pope starring Jude Law and John Malkovich.
In 2021 he wrote and directed the film It was the Hand of God, nominated for the Academy Award, 2022 for best foreign film, winner of the Silver Lion Grand Prize of the Jury and the Marcello Mastroianni Prize at the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival, also winner of 5 David di Donatello 2022 including the one as best film and best director and 4 Silver Ribbons 2022 including the one as best film. In 2023 he wrote and directed Parthenope, which was presented in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.