1. Paolo Sorrentino is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today.
19 Facts About Paolo Sorrentino
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Paolo Sorrentino is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni.
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Paolo Sorrentino has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award accepted for Best International Film, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards.
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Paolo Sorrentino received critical acclaim with the art drama The Great Beauty which won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Paolo Sorrentino followed with Youth, Loro, and The Hand of God the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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Paolo Sorrentino is known for his work on television creating and directing the HBO drama series The Young Pope, and The New Pope.
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Paolo Sorrentino has worked with songwriters Antonello Venditti, Paloma Faith and Mark Kozelek and written three books published in Italian.
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Paolo Sorrentino was born in the Arenella district of Naples in 1970, and was orphaned at age 16 after losing both of his parents to an accidental carbon monoxide leak.
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Paolo Sorrentino began directing short movies, including L'amore non ha confini in 1998 and La notte lunga in 2001.
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Paolo Sorrentino achieved international recognition in 2004 for his thriller The Consequences of Love.
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Paolo Sorrentino made his acting debut the same year with a cameo appearance in Nanni Moretti's film The Caiman, which was shown at the 2006 London Film Festival.
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Paolo Sorrentino's following film, Il Divo, is a dramatised biopic of Giulio Andreotti, the controversial Italian politician.
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In 2009, it was announced Paolo Sorrentino wrote the screenplay for a film version of Niccolo Ammaniti's novel Ti prendo e ti porto via.
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Paolo Sorrentino then directed Youth, his second English-language film which features Michael Caine as a retired orchestra conductor.
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In 2019, it was announced that Paolo Sorrentino would be directing Jennifer Lawrence as mob informant Arlyne Brickman in Mob Girl.
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Paolo Sorrentino will be working as a co-producer on the film with Lawrence, as well as co-writing the screenplay.
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In 2023 it was reported Paolo Sorrentino was directing another "love letter to Naples", Parthenope, starring Gary Oldman.
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In 2025, Paolo Sorrentino confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the Jennifer Lawrence projects Mob Girl and Sue would not be going forward.
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In 2015, Paolo Sorrentino was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the American University of Rome.