---
name: "Ivan Cotroneo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ivan-cotroneo"
fi1m_id: "ivan-cotroneo"
imdb_id: "nm0182891"
tmdb_id: 111427
wikidata_id: "Q3804677"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 February 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T21:20:17.360676+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ivan Cotroneo

## Identity

Ivan Cotroneo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ivan-cotroneo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ivan-cotroneo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0182891
- **TMDB ID:** 111427
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3804677
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Cotroneo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3804677, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182891/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111427

Writer. Born 21 February 1968 in Napoli.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 February 1968, Napoli
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Cotroneo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3804677, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182891/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111427

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*I Am Love*](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ivan Cotroneo is an Italian writer, screenwriter and director. After abandoning law studies, he moved to Rome and graduated in scriptwriting from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1992.

He has written screenplays for films including *I Am Love* (2009), *Loose Cannons* (2010, for which he shared an Italian Golden Globe for Best Screenplay) and *A Five Star Life* (2013). Cotroneo has also directed feature films adapted from his own novels, such as *Kryptonite!* (2011) and *One Kiss* (2016), and created numerous Italian television series.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com, it.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *I Am Love* (2010), Fi1m 81, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Life You Wanted* (2024), series, Creator
- *Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila* (2023), series, Creator
- *Laura Pausini – Pleased to Meet You* (2022), Writer, Director
- *14 Days* (2021), Writer, Novel, Director
- *Nato Raro* (2020), Writer
- *While I Was Away* (2019), series, Creator
- *The Swan Company* (2019), series, Director
- *That's Life* (2018), Thanks
- *Sirens* (2017), series, Writer, Creator
- *One Kiss* (2016), Screenplay, Director
- *È arrivata la felicità* (2015), series, Creator
- *Me, Myself and Her* (2015), Screenplay, Story, Writer, Idea
- *Do You See Me?* (2014), Story
- *Il Natale della mamma imperfetta* (2013), Director, Writer
- *Quadri espansi* (2013), Actor
- *Una mamma imperfetta* (2013), series, Creator
- *A Five Star Life* (2013), Writer, Story
- *Kryptonite!* (2011), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra* (2010), Actor
- *I Am Love* (2010), Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md)
- *Loose Cannons* (2010), Story, Screenplay
- *Sisi* (2009), series, Writer
- *Damn Poverty!* (2009), Screenplay
- *The Front Line* (2009), Screenplay, Story
- *Pinocchio* (2009), Story, Screenplay
- *Pinocchio* (2009), series, Story, Storyboard
- *Questo piccolo grande amore* (2009), Writer, Idea, Story, Script, Screenplay
- *Everyone's Crazy About Love* (2008), series, Creator
- *The Man Who Loves* (2008), Co-Writer
- *Piano, Solo* (2007), Story, Screenplay
- *Raccontami una storia* (2004), Writer
- *Ginger and Cinnamon* (2003), Screenplay
- *Un posto tranquillo* (2003), Screenplay, Story
- *Paz!* (2002), Story, Screenplay
- *Chimera* (2001), Idea, Story, Writer, Screenplay
- *In principio erano le mutande* (1999), Screenplay
- *The Vesuvians* (1997), Writer
- *Cosa c’entra con l’amore* (1997), Screenplay, Story
- *Libera* (1993), Second Assistant Director

## Gallery

- ![Ivan Cotroneo - Foto di G. M. Ireneo Alessi (Sinix) (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/4160524/gallery-27c0384e9432.jpg) Ivan Cotroneo - Foto di G. M. Ireneo Alessi (Sinix) (2010) — SinixLab from Roma, Italia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/RomaFictionFest_-_Ivan_Cotroneo_%284774067072%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![A picture of the Director and Writer Ivan Cotroneo (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/4160524/gallery-b95b0ef200bb.jpg) A picture of the Director and Writer Ivan Cotroneo (2016) — Caiomerlinobritannico, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Cotroneo2016.jpg/1280px-Cotroneo2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ivan Cotroneo](https://film.one/media/person/4160524/gallery-c3bbe237c91b.jpg) Ivan Cotroneo — Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Ivan_Cotroneo_01.jpg/1280px-Ivan_Cotroneo_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2010: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Loose Cannons*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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