Gabriele Muccino
Gabriele Ottorino Muccino (born May 20, 1967 in Rome ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter .
Muccino dropped out of his literary studies at La Sapienza University and became a volunteer assistant to film directors such as Pupi Avati and Marco Risi . In the advertising film sector he worked with Fabrizio Costa . In 1992 he attended courses for screenwriters with Leo Benvenuti , enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and presented three short films that the RAI broadcast on its Mixer program. Also for television, Muccino staged contributions for Ultimo minuto and with Stefania Rocca in the lead role the short film Io e Giulia .
After experience as a director of soap opera episodes and as a documentarist, he contributed to the 1996 intolerance with the episode Max suona il piano . In 1998 his first feature film for the cinema, Ecco fatto, was released . The film, which is written in the language of young people, was just as positively received by the critics as its successor from the following year, the enjoyable Just Like You is none (Come te nessuno mai) .
At the 2002 Sundance Film Festival , Muccino received the Audience Award for A Last Kiss , one of the great successes of the year, shown for the first time the year before . In the new millennium, Muccino also shot in Hollywood. In 2006, he directed the multi-award-winning feature film The Pursuit of Happiness , whose leading actor Will Smith received an Oscar nomination.
In March 2014, filming began under his direction in Pittsburgh for the family drama Fathers & Daughters - A Whole Life with Russell Crowe in the role of father and Amanda Seyfried as his daughter.
From 2002 to 2006, Muccino was married to Elena Majoni , with whom he also has a son. He has a second son from a previous relationship with actress Eugenia Di Napoli . Muccino's younger brother Silvio is also a film director.
Filmography
- 1996: Un posto al sole (TV series)
- 1998: Ecco fatto
- 1999: No one like you (Come te nessuno mai)
- 2001: One last kiss (L'ultimo bacio)
- 2003: Ricordati di me
- 2006: The Pursuit of Happyness (The Pursuit of Happyness)
- 2008: Seven Lives (Seven Pounds)
- 2010: Baciami ancora
- 2012: Kiss the Coach (Playing for Keeps)
- 2015: Fathers & Daughters - A Whole Life (Fathers and Daughters)
- 2016: L'estate addosso
- 2018: It's most beautiful at home (A casa tutti bene)
- 2020: Gli anni più belli
Web links
- Gabriele Muccino in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photo Gabriele Muccino 2014 on liquida.it, accessed on April 15, 2014.
- Biography at mymovies
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome 2002, p. 301
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muccino, Gabriele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muccino, Gabriele Ottorino (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian director, screenwriter and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |