Gianni Di Gregorio
Italian director, screenwriter and actor
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Gianni Di Gregorio | |
Born | 19 February 1949 (1949-02-19) (age 75) Rome, Italy |
Occupation(s) | Director Screenwriter |
Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s.[1]
In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award-winning film Gomorrah. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred in; he followed that up with other films in the same vein.[1][2]
Filmography
- Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986, co-writer)
- Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto (1986, co-writer)
- Stazione di servizio (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes)
- Affetti speciali (1989, co-writer)
- Naufraghi sotto costa (1991, co-writer)
- Ospiti (1998, actor as Giacomo)
- Estate romana (2000, actor as Lodeger)
- Viva la scimmia (2002, co-writer)
- Gomorrah (2008, co-writer)
- Mid-August Lunch (2008, director and co-writer)
- The Salt of Life (2011, director and co-writer)
- Good for Nothing (2014, director and co-writer)
- Citizens of the World (2019, director and co-writer)
- Astolfo (2022, director and co-writer)
References
- ^ a b Fabio Secchi Frau. "Gianni Di Gregorio: Gianni e il cinema". MyMovies. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
- ^ Wally Hammond. "Gianni Di Gregorio: interview". Time Out. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
External links
- Gianni Di Gregorio at IMDb
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European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
- Louis Malle (1988)
- Maria Khmelik (1989)
- Vitali Kanevsky (1990)
- Jaco Van Dormael (1991)
- István Szabó (1992)
- Arif Aliev, Sergei Bodrov, and Boris Giller (1996)
- Chris Vander Stappen and Alain Berliner (1997)
- Peter Howitt (1998)
- István Szabó and Israel Horovitz (1999)
- Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri (2000)
- Danis Tanović (2001)
- Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
- Bernd Lichtenberg (2003)
- Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri (2004)
- Hany Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer (2005)
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2006)
- Fatih Akin (2007)
- Matteo Garrone, Roberto Saviano, Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni Di Gregorio, and Massimo Gaudioso (2008)
- Michael Haneke (2009)
- Robert Harris and Roman Polanski (2010)
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (2011)
- Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg (2012)
- François Ozon (2013)
- Paweł Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz (2014)
- Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou (2015)
- Maren Ade (2016)
- Ruben Östlund (2017)
- Paweł Pawlikowski (2018)
- Céline Sciamma (2019)
- Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg (2020)
- Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2021)
- Ruben Östlund (2022)
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)