The film director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino was born in Naples in 1970. His first feature film, One Man Up, was screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. He made The Consequences of Love in 2004, and The Family Friend in 2006, both of which competed at the Cannes Film Festival. He was back at Cannes in 2008 with Il Divo, which won the Prix du Jury. He again competed at Cannes in 2011 with This Must be the Place, followed two years later by The Great Beauty, which won him an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, a Bafta for Best Foreign Film and three EFAs. He won at Cannes yet again in 2016 with Youth, which netted three EFAs, an Oscar® nomination and two Golden Globe® nominations. He created the TV series The Young Pope in 2016, which was nominated for a Golden Globe Best Actor Award and Emmy Awards for scenography and photography. He wrote the screenplay for Loro, starring Toni Servillo, in 2018. In 2019 he shot his second series set in the Vatican, The New Pope, starring Jude Law and John Malkovich. In 2021 he wrote and directed the film The Hand of God, nominated for a Best Foreign Film at the 2022 Oscars®, which won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 78th edition of the Venice International Film Festival, and also netted 5 David di Donatello 2022 Awards, including Best Film and Best Director and four 2022 Silver Ribbons, including Best Film. In 2024 he wrote and directed Parthenope, presented in competition at Cannes and winner of the Golden Ticket for one of the most viewed films of the year.
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