---
name: "Luca Guadagnino"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/luca-guadagnino"
fi1m_id: "luca-guadagnino"
imdb_id: "nm0345174"
tmdb_id: 78160
wikidata_id: "Q1335528"
roles: ["Director","Producer"]
born: "10 August 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "director"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-01T21:12:28.007405+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."
---

# Luca Guadagnino

## Identity

Luca Guadagnino

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luca-guadagnino
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** luca-guadagnino
- **IMDb ID:** nm0345174
- **TMDB ID:** 78160
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1335528
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Guadagnino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1335528, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345174/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78160

Director and producer. Born 10 August 1971 in Palermo, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer
- **Born:** 10 August 1971, Palermo, Italy
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** לוקה גואדאנינו
- **Frequently works with:** [Andrew Garfield](https://film.one/person/andrew-garfield.md), [Jason Schwartzman](https://film.one/person/jason-schwartzman.md), [Justin Kuritzkes](https://film.one/person/justin-kuritzkes.md), [Marco Morabito](https://film.one/person/marco-morabito.md), [Michael Stuhlbarg](https://film.one/person/michael-stuhlbarg.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as director, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (2), 2020s 68 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 75 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Romance 4, Sport 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $164m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Guadagnino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1335528, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0345174/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78160

## Coming up

- *Artificial* (2026-12-25), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*I Am Love*](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md) (81), [*Challengers*](https://film.one/film/challengers.md) (80), [*After the Hunt*](https://film.one/film/after-the-hunt.md) (57)
- **HBO Max:** [*Queer*](https://film.one/film/queer.md) (68)

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## Fi1m on Luca Guadagnino

> Luca Guadagnino makes desire convincing because his characters so often embarrass themselves. His best films let actors make attraction awkward and funny; he is less reliable when he keeps adding images to feelings they have already made clear.

In *Call Me by Your Name* (2017), Elio can discuss art and history but cannot make sense of wanting Oliver. Guadagnino gives that embarrassment time, occasionally more than it needs. James Ivory’s screenplay and Timothée Chalamet’s performance make the uncertainty worth following. We find him most persuasive here, letting an articulate boy struggle with something he cannot explain.

The breakthrough was *I Am Love* (2009), followed by *A Bigger Splash* (2015), the first two parts of his Desire trilogy. His subsequent turn towards horror brought *Suspiria* (2018) and *Bones and All* (2022). In *Challengers* (2024), he found a brisker way to film attraction, putting three people’s competing wants on a tennis court.

Justin Kuritzkes’s script gives editor Marco Costa a match and thirteen years of history to cut between, and the shifting dates keep the rivalries sharp. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom shoots the serves in hard daylight, with sweat flying. We were exhilarated when Guadagnino sent the camera travelling with the ball across the net, despite knowing he was showing off. Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor keep the competition funny and personal. The score is too loud, but this is a film whose excesses mostly earn their place.

*Queer* (2024), also written by Kuritzkes, has Daniel Craig making a fool of himself for a younger man, with painful and funny results. Production designer Stefano Baisi’s painted skies make Mexico City look remembered. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s low, aching score suits Lee’s longing. For a while, Guadagnino lets Craig’s face do the difficult work. Later he reaches for elaborate effects, and Costa’s editing grows slack just when the film needs to move on.

*After the Hunt* (2025) offers less reason to be patient. Julia Roberts gives a strong performance as a philosophy professor reluctant to take a position, but Guadagnino’s refusal to settle on what he thinks makes the film drag. Careful construction cannot make that indecision interesting for 139 minutes. Start with *Call Me by Your Name*, allowing for its leisurely pace.

## Biography

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director and producer. He was born on 10 August 1971 in Palermo, Italy.

His feature-film debut was *The Protagonists* (1999). He is known for directing *I Am Love* (2010), *A Bigger Splash* (2015), *Call Me by Your Name* (2017), *Suspiria* (2018), *Bones and All* (2022), *Challengers* (2024), *Queer* (2024) and *After the Hunt* (2025). He has also produced several of these films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *After the Hunt* (2025), Fi1m 57, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/after-the-hunt.md)
- *Challengers* (2024), Fi1m 80, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/challengers.md)
- *Queer* (2024), Fi1m 68, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/queer.md)
- *Call Me by Your Name* (2017), Fi1m 86, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/call-me-by-your-name.md)
- *I Am Love* (2010), Fi1m 81, Producer, Director, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md)

## Complete filmography (65)

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

- *Artificial* (2026), Director, Producer
- *Ketticè* (2026), Producer
- *The Death of Klinghoffer* (2026), Director, Stage Director, Set Designer
- *Atropia* (2025), Producer
- *Stile Alberto* (2025), Producer
- *After the Hunt* (2025), Director, Producer — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/after-the-hunt.md)
- *Camaraderie* (2025), Director
- *Nineteen* (2025), Producer
- *April* (2025), Producer
- *Queer* (2024), Director, Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/queer.md)
- *Challengers* (2024), Director, Producer, Songs — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/challengers.md)
- *Enea* (2024), Producer
- *Holiday* (2023), Producer
- *The Meatseller* (2023), Producer
- *Bones and All* (2022), Producer, Director
- *O Night Divine* (2021), Director, Producer
- *The Home Front – A Journey in Italy with Domenico Quirico* (2021), Producer
- *Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams* (2021), Director
- *Beckett* (2021), Producer
- *Peter Del Monte e Luca Guadagnino: Un Incontro* (2021), Actor
- *The Truffle Hunters* (2020), Executive Producer
- *We Are Who We Are* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator
- *Fiori, Fiori, Fiori!* (2020), Director, Writer
- *The Staggering Girl* (2019), Director, Producer
- *Suspiria* (2018), Director, Producer
- *Call Me by Your Name* (2017), Director, Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/call-me-by-your-name.md)
- *The War Within* (2016), Producer
- *A Bigger Splash* (2015), Director, Producer
- *Antonia* (2015), Producer
- *The Levitants* (2015), Thanks
- *Part Deux* (2015), Director
- *A Rose Reborn* (2014), Producer
- *Belluscone: A Sicilian Story* (2014), Producer
- *Walking Stories* (2013), Director, Producer
- *Bertolucci on Bertolucci* (2013), Director, Producer
- *Magic Triangle* (2013), Producer
- *Adele's Dream* (2013), Producer
- *The Switch* (2012), Producer
- *The Landlords* (2012), Producer
- *The Search* (2012), Producer
- *Inconscio Italiano* (2011), Director
- *Diarchy* (2010), Producer
- *I Am Love* (2010), Producer, Screenplay, Director, Story — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-love.md)
- *Pippo Delbono, You Have to Die: The Love Factory* (2008), Director, Writer
- *Diary of a Nymphomaniac* (2008), Writer
- *Delfinasia* (2007), Producer
- *Melissa P.* (2005), Writer, Director, Screenplay, Story
- *Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory* (2004), Writer, Director
- *Cuoco Contadino* (2004), Writer, Director
- *The Making of Lotus* (2003), Additional Camera, Director
- *Dream Generation* (2003), Director
- *Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory* (2002), Writer, Director
- *Rosso* (2002), Producer
- *Au revoir* (2001), Director, Writer
- *L'uomo risacca* (2000), Director
- *The Protagonists* (1999), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Qui* (1997), Director
- *Separate Rooms*, Director, Producer
- *Find Me*, as Director
- *Leading Men*, Producer, Director
- *Joie de Vivre. Notes, Thoughts, Words, Reflections, Faces, Visions, Around Bernardo Bertolucci and the Cinephilia of the 20th Century That Is No More*, Director, Writer
- *American Psycho*, Director, Producer
- *Buddenbrooks*, Director, Producer
- *Bread and Milk*, Writer, Director
- *Afonso's Smile*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Luca Guadagnino](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-7bd46e504479.jpg) Luca Guadagnino — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Luca_Guadagnino.jpg/1280px-Luca_Guadagnino.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-48 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-dc59a44f4bf8.jpg) AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-48 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-48_%2854857597432%29.jpg/1280px-AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-48_%2854857597432%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-49 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-f872af944dd0.jpg) AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-49 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-49_%2854858455346%29.jpg/1280px-AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-49_%2854858455346%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-59 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-02927ee9f94a.jpg) AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-59 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-59_%2854858710798%29.jpg/1280px-AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-59_%2854858710798%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Luca Guadagnino](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-23b5c5649315.jpg) Luca Guadagnino — Image via TMDB
- ![Luca Guadagnino](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-0477f4a73d7b.jpg) Luca Guadagnino — Image via TMDB
- ![Luca Guadagnino](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-45fa37bd860e.jpg) Luca Guadagnino — Image via TMDB
- ![AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-73 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-74f871ad0fcf.jpg) AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-73 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-73_%2854858704354%29.jpg/1280px-AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-73_%2854858704354%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-74 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-6ec119b18580.jpg) AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-74 (2025) — Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-74_%2854858762620%29.jpg/1280px-AfterTheHuntBFILFF111025-74_%2854858762620%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Luca Guadagnino](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-0fd0baf34ccc.jpg) Luca Guadagnino — Image via TMDB
- ![Luca Guadagnino](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-38915757307a.jpg) Luca Guadagnino — Image via TMDB
- ![Luca Guadagnino](https://film.one/media/person/7864/gallery-5756031c81b7.jpg) Luca Guadagnino — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2018: Best Picture (nominated), for *Call Me by Your Name*

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- David di Donatello for Adapted Screenplay 2019: David di Donatello for Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Call Me by Your Name*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2018: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Call Me by Your Name*

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

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