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Two-time Oscar winner and former Un Certain Regard Jury President Guillermo del Toro kicked off a filmmaker symposium at Cannes today, discussing the future of cinema, particularly as it’s been rattled by the pandemic. The participants at today’s festival conference was left as a surprise. Del Toro was joined by Final…

The David di Donatello Awards were held in Rome on Tuesday evening, the first time Italy's equivalent to the Oscar has had a fully in-person ceremony in the pandemic era. Taking top honors was Paolo Sorrentino's The Hand Of God which scooped Best Film and Director as well as Best Supporting Actress for Teresa…

Paolo Sorrentino won the Foreign Language Oscar, as it was known then, in 2014 with his film The Great Beauty. He returns to the frame this year with The Hand of God, perhaps his most personal picture, which is nominated for Best International Feature. This lightly fictionalized tale of Sorrentino's own youth in…

After whittling down from 93 country submissions to a shortlist of 15, the Oscars' Best International Feature category has its final five nominees, welcoming some familiar faces, and for the first time, an entirely new entrant. Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom by filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji, is only the second movie…

Editors note: When we think of Robert De Niro and Italy, it’s easiest to focus on the Sicilian town of Corleone, because of his Oscar-winning turn in The Godfather: Part II. But De Niro wanted to focus on Naples, which director Paolo Sorrentino brought to life in The Hand of God. De Niro was so moved, he wrote a guest…

By any yardstick, Paolo Sorrentino has had a lot of good luck in his directing career. His first film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and the next six competed at Cannes, a residency that brought an Oscar nomination for 2013's The Great Beauty. But Sorrentino does not take his good fortune for granted…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. When Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reached his milestone 50th birthday, he decided the occasion was ripe with the potential to break away from many of the enduring…

With a filmography that includes Il Divo, Loro, This Must Be the Place, Youth and his Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino has shot to the top of list of international superstar directors. Throw in television limited series like The Young Pope and The New Pope, plus a litany of shorts and documentaries…

Paolo Sorrentino said the experience of turning 50 two years ago helped encourage him to depict the experiences of his youth onscreen. That led to the Netflix film The Hand of God. The Oscar-winning director of The Great Beauty reflected on the decision to look inward during a panel session at Deadline Contenders New…

Paolo Sorrentino returns to the Oscar fray eight years after he bagged the International Feature prize for The Great Beauty. His latest film, The Hand of God, has been one of the buzz films of the fall festivals, taking home the Venice Grand Jury Prize and also playing at Telluride and London. Sorrentino's most…

Italy has submitted Paolo Sorrentino's Venice Grand Jury Prize winner The Hand of God to represent the country for the Oscars' International Feature Film category. The selection marks a natural continuation on the lauded title's trajectory. After debuting on the Lido, it went on to play at the Telluride and London…

With Venice Grand Jury Prize winner The Hand Of God, Paolo Sorrentino wanted to make a change. "For 20 years, I did a precise kind of movie and I was a little bit tired about that… When I turned 50, I thought it was the right moment to change everything, to change the producer, the crew, the tone, the style. Even the…