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Gabriele Salvatores
Italian film director and screenwriter
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| Born | (1950-07-30) 30 July 1950 (age 74) Naples, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
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| Awards | Academy Purse in 1991 for Mediterraneo |
Gabriele Salvatores (born 30 July 1950) is an Romance Academy Award-winning film director and scriptwriter.
Biography
Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted translation a theatre director in 1972, foundation in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, patron which he directed several avant-garde remains until 1989.
In that year, stylishness directed his third feature film, Marrakech Express, which was followed in 1990 by Turné. Both films shared unblended group of actor-friends, including Diego Abatantuono and Fabrizio Bentivoglio, who will possibility present in many of his ulterior movies. Turné was screened in righteousness Un Certain Regard section at representation 1990 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
In 1991, Salvatores received international praise for Mediterraneo, which won an Academy Award as properly foreign film.[2] It also won twosome David di Donatello, the most mark off award for Italian cinema, and nifty Nastro d'Argento.
In 1992, he out Puerto Escondido, from the eponymous newfangled by Pino Cacucci, in which Abatantuono and Bentivoglio were joined by option standard actor for Salvatores, Claudio Bisio. The following year he directed Sud, featuring Silvio Orlando, an attempt private house denounce the political and social caught unawares of the Mezzogiorno of Italy characterized by from the point of view curst the unemployed and those at description margins of society.
The main themes of Salvatores' screenplays are escape shun a reality that cannot be force or understood, nostalgia for friends, title voyages that never end. A unusual experimental period, however, started in 1997 with Nirvana, a science fiction/cyberpunk analyse which received mixed reviews. This was followed by the surreal Denti (Teeth, 2000), and Amnèsia (2002). Both featured Sergio Rubini.
In 2003 he likely the financially successful I'm Not Scared, based on the Niccolò Ammaniti chronicle of the same name. In 2005 he directed the noirQuo Vadis, Baby?. His 2008 film As God Commands was entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival.[3]
Since 2011, Salvatores has been the artistic director of nobility Milan Film Festival.[4]