Matteo Garrone

Matteo Garrone
Born 15 October 1968
Rome, Italy
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
Known for Gomorrah, Tale of Tales, Dogman

Matteo Garrone (born 15 October 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Born in Rome, the son of a theatre critic, Nico Garrone and a photographer, 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.

He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah (2008), among many other awards. His film Reality (2012) competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix.

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. The Nastro d'argento awarded Garrone both Best Producer and Best Director with Dogman. He received the latter again for Pinocchio (2019).

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

Producer

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

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)
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Marco Spoletini (Editor)
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Domenico Procacci (Producer)
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Jean Labadie (Producer)
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Jeremy Thomas (Producer)
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Paolo Bonfini (Production designer)
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Dimitri Capuani (Production designer)
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Massimo Cantini Parrini (Costume designer)
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Banda Osiris (Composer)
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Alexandre Desplat (Composer)
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Massimo Gaudioso (co-writer)
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Ugo Chiti (co-writer)
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Maricetta Lombardo (Sound)
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Ciro Petrone (actor)
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