Matteo Garrone

Matteo Garrone
Matteo Garrone
	Garrone at the Berlin Film Festival 2020
Born	Rome, Italy
Occupations	Film director; Producer;
Known for	Gomorrah, Tale of Tales, Dogman, Io capitano

Matteo Garrone is an Italian filmmaker.

Early life

Matteo Garrone was born in Rome, Italy, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, Donatella Rimoldi.^[1]

Career

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 feature, Terra di Mezzo in 1997.^[2]

Garrone won the European Film Award for Best Director and the David di Donatello for Best Director for Gomorrah (2008).^[3]^[4] His film Reality (2012) won the Grand Prix at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.^[5]

His films Tale of Tales (2015) and Dogman (2018) were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively.^[6]^[7] The Nastro d'Argento awarded Garrone both Best Producer and Best Director for Dogman.^[8] He received the latter again for Pinocchio (2019).^[9]

In 2019, Garrone was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.^[10] In 2024, his film Io capitano (2023) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, representing Italy.^[11]

Filmography

Director

Short films

Silhouette (1996)
Bienvenido espirito santo (1997)
Un caso di forza maggiore (1997)
Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni (1998)
Before Design: Classic (2016)
Delightful (2017)
Entering Red (2019)
Le mythe Dior (2020)
The Tarot Deck (Le château du tarot) (2021)

Feature films

1996 – Terra di mezzo
1998 – Guests (Ospiti)
2000 – Roman Summer (Estate romana)
2002 – The Embalmer (L'imbalsamatore)
2003 – First Love (Primo amore)
2008 – Gomorrah (Gomorra)
2012 – Reality
2015 – Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti)
2018 – Dogman
2019 – Pinocchio
2023 – Io capitano

Producer

Silhouette (1996)
Terra di mezzo (1996)
Ospiti (1998)
Estate romana (2000)
Mid-August Lunch (2008)

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Film	Result	Ref.
Academy Awards	2024	Best International Feature Film (representing Italy)	Io capitano	Nominated	^[12]
BAFTA Film Awards	2009	Best Film Not in the English Language	Gomorrah	Nominated	^[13]
BAFTA Film Awards	2019	Best Film Not in the English Language	Dogman	Nominated	^[14]
British Independent Film Awards	2008	Best Foreign Independent Film	Gomorrah	Nominated	^[15]
Cannes Film Festival	2008	Grand Prix	Gomorrah	Won	^[16]
Cannes Film Festival	2012	Grand Prix	Reality	Won	^[5]
César Awards	2009	Best Foreign Film	Gomorrah	Nominated	^[17]
David di Donatello	2019	Best Film	Dogman	Won	^[18]
		Best Director		Won
		Best Original Screenplay		Won
	2020	Best Film	Pinocchio	Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
	2024	Best Film	Io capitano	Won
		Best Director		Won
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
European Film Awards	2008	European Director	Gomorrah	Won	^[3]
	2008	European Screenwriter	Gomorrah	Won	^[3]
	2018	European Film	Dogman	Nominated	^[19]
		European Director		Nominated
		European Screenwriter		Nominated
	2023	European Film	Io capitano	Nominated	^[20]
	2023	European Director	Io capitano	Nominated	^[20]
Golden Globe Awards	2009	Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language	Gomorrah	Nominated	^[21]
Golden Globe Awards	2024	Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language	Io capitano	Nominated	^[22]
Independent Spirit Awards	2009	Best Foreign Film	Gomorrah	Nominated	^[23]
Nastro d'Argento	2018	Best Director	Dogman	Won	^[24]
Nastro d'Argento	2020	Best Director	Pinocchio	Won	^[25]
Polish Film Award	2019	Best European Film	Dogman	Nominated	^[26]
Venice Film Festival	2023	Silver Lion	Io capitano	Won	^[27]

Collaborators

Garrone likes to work with the same team of filmmakers, often hiring cast and crew from his previous films. Regular members of the 'team' include:

Collaborators	Terra di mezzo	Guests	Roman Summer	The Embalmer	First Love	Gomorrah	Reality	Tale of Tales	Dogman	Pinocchio	I'm capitan
Marco Onorato (Cinematographer)	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y
Marco Spoletini (Editor)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Domenico Procacci (Producer)				Y	Y	Y	Y
Jean Labadie (Producer)							Y	Y	Y	Y
Jeremy Thomas (Producer)								Y	Y	Y
Paolo Bonfini (Production designer)			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Dimitri Capuani (Production designer)								Y	Y	Y	Y
Massimo Cantini Parrini (Costume designer)								Y	Y	Y
Banda Osiris (Composer)			Y	Y	Y
Alexandre Desplat (Composer)							Y	Y
Massimo Gaudioso (co-writer)			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y
Ugo Chiti (co-writer)				Y		Y	Y	Y	Y
Maricetta Lombardo (Sound)			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Ciro Petrone (actor)						Y	Y			Y

References

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^ ^a ^b "EFA Night 2008". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^ Jennings, Sheri. "Gomorrah leads winners at David Di Donatello Awards". Screen International. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b "65th Festival de Cannes Awards". Festival de Cannes. 26 May 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "The 2015 Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
^ "The 2018 Official Selection". Festival de Cannes. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
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^ "Nastri d'argento 2020: «Favolacce», «Pinocchio» e gli altri vincitori". GQ Italia (in Italian). 6 July 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
^ "ACADEMY INVITES 842 TO MEMBERSHIP". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
^ "96TH OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^ "96th Oscars: See the Full List of Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 10 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
^ "2009 Film Film Not in the English Language | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^ "2019 Film Film Not in the English Language | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^ "2008 Nominations and Jury Announced 11th British Independent Film Awards". BIFA · British Independent Film Awards. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "All the Awards". Festival de Cannes. 24 May 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "Gomorra". Académie des César (in French). Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "Matteo GARRONE". Accademia del Cinema Italiano - Premi David di Donatello. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "DOGMAN". europeanfilmawards.eu. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "Nominations 2023 Complete". European Film Academy. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^ "Gomorrah". Golden Globes. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "Io Capitano". Golden Globes. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ Kay, Jeremy. "Rachel, River, Ballast lead Spirit Award nominations with six apiece". Screen International. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "Nastri d'Argento 2018: tutti i vincitori". Nastri d'Argento (in Italian). 4 July 2018. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^ "Nastri d'Argento 2020: i vincitori". Nastri d'Argento (in Italian). 6 July 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^ "Orły | Nominowani do Orłów 2019". Polskie Nagrody Filmowe (in Polish). Retrieved 29 February 2024.
^ "Biennale Cinema 2023 | Official awards of the 80th Venice Flm Festival". La Biennale di Venezia. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2024.

Bibliography

Luciana d'Arcangeli, ‘Fatalmente tua: Garrone, il noir e le donne’, in the special issue “An Eye on Italy” on Italian Cinema of the e-journal Flinders University Languages Group Online Review – FULGOR, Volume 5, Issue 3, June 2018, pp. 14–26 - https://www.fulgor.online/vol5-issue3-2018-forthcoming
Luciana d'Arcangeli. "The Films of Matteo Garrone: Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed" in William Hope (ed) "Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium". Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 175–187.
Pierpaolo De Sanctis, Domenico Monetti, Luca Pallanch. "Non solo Gomorra. Tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone", Rome, Edizioni Sabinae, 2008.