Matteo Garrone

Matteo Garrone born 15 October 1968 Rome is an Italian filmmaker Born in Rome the son of a theatre critic Nico Garrone and a photographer in 1996 Garrone won the Sacher dOro 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 dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival respectively The Nastro dargento awarded Garrone both Best Producer and Best Director with Dogman He received the latter again for Pinocchio 2019