--- name: "Nanni Moretti" canonical: "https://film.one/person/nanni-moretti" fi1m_id: "nanni-moretti" imdb_id: "nm0604335" tmdb_id: 69488 wikidata_id: "Q25100" roles: ["Director","Actor","Writer"] born: "19 August 1953" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 80 average_as: "director" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-26T03:23:08.547333+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." --- # Nanni Moretti ## Identity Nanni Moretti - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nanni-moretti - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** nanni-moretti - **IMDb ID:** nm0604335 - **TMDB ID:** 69488 - **Wikidata ID:** Q25100 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanni_Moretti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25100, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604335/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69488 Director and actor. Born 19 August 1953 in Bruneck, Italy. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Actor, Writer - **Born:** 19 August 1953, Bruneck, Italy - **Active:** 1993–2001 - **Also known as:** 난니 모레티, Giovanni Moretti, Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti - **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 directing - **Frequently works with:** [Angelo Barbagallo](https://film.one/person/angelo-barbagallo.md) - **Cannes Film Festival:** 2 Cannes prizes (2 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as director, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 77 (2), 2000s 82 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanni_Moretti, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25100, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604335/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69488 ## Coming up - *It will happen tonight* (2026-12-03), Padre di Greta ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Caro diario*](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md) (77) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Nanni Moretti > Nanni Moretti makes curiosity, irritation and self-mockery into absorbing cinema. We enjoy his company most when he can laugh at his own persistence, and less when he assumes every complaint deserves our undivided attention. In *Caro diario* (1993), Nanni Moretti rides a scooter through Rome and lets the journey hold our attention. We felt unexpectedly content watching those rides, because his curiosity gives us time to enjoy looking around. Playing himself, he allows irritation and pleasure in the cinema to decide where the film goes next. He is absorbing company, though some complaints continue after we have got the point. The figure on screen was not always called Nanni. His alter ego Michele Apicella first appeared in *Io sono un autarchico* (1976), and returned in *Ecce Bombo* (1978). *Caro diario* and *Aprile* (1998) made the autobiography more explicit, building on a habit of writing, directing and appearing in his own films. The shift suits the diary format of *Caro diario*: a search for inspiration gives him a reason to change subjects whenever something else catches his interest. Giuseppe Lanci photographed *Caro diario*, *Aprile* and *The Son's Room* (2001); producer Angelo Barbagallo also worked on the first and last of those films. The unadorned photography in *Caro diario* suits the emphasis on performance, dialogue and everyday observation. Its three-episode structure allows Moretti to change tone, moving between comedy and drama. It also leaves him space to linger over weaker observations, and the plainness of the filming cannot make those passages more interesting. The emotional directness of *The Son's Room* makes it harder to dismiss Moretti as simply a man with grievances. *Mia Madre* (2015) again draws on his experience, but places a woman filmmaker at its centre. The comic self-scrutiny of *Caro diario* still matters: he lets us find his persistence ridiculous, even when he cannot stop it. Begin with *Caro diario* for the humour and the scooter rides, allowing for a director who does not always know when we have heard enough. ## Biography Nanni Moretti is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Born Giovanni Moretti on 19 August 1953 in Bruneck, Italy, he began making short films in Super 8 in the early 1970s before directing his first feature, *Io sono un autarchico*, in 1976. He frequently appears in his own films and founded the production company Sacher Film in 1987. Moretti is best known for *Caro diario* (1993), which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, and for *The Son's Room* (2001), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Other notable works include *Ecce Bombo* (1978), *Bianca* (1984) and *The Caiman* (2006). He has received three David di Donatello Awards for Best Film and served as president of the Cannes jury in 2012. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) ### Performed in (1) - *Three Lives and Only One Death* (1996), Fi1m 77, as Barman — [page](https://film.one/film/three-lives-and-only-one-death.md) ### Directed (2) — the average rests on these - *The Son's Room* (2001), Fi1m 82, as Giovanni — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sons-room.md) - *Caro diario* (1993), Fi1m 77, as Nanni Moretti — [page](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md) ## Complete filmography (67) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *It will happen tonight* (2026), as Padre di Greta · Director, Screenplay, Producer - *Canestrooooo!* (2025), Director - *Buio in sala* (2025), Actor - *Vittoria* (2024), Producer - *Quasi a casa* (2024), Producer - *A Brighter Tomorrow* (2023), as Giovanni · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story - *Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone* (2022), Actor - *The Hummingbird* (2022), as Daniele Carradori - *Las Leonas* (2022), as Sé stesso · Producer - *Piazza* (2022), Producer - *Senza troppo recitare la follia* (2021), Actor - *Three Floors* (2021), as Vittorio · Screenplay, Producer, Director - *My Life with the Waters* (2021), Thanks - *Santiago, Italia* (2018), Screenplay, Producer, Director, Idea, Script, Story, Writer - *Piazza Mazzini* (2018), Director - *Cheerful Ischia and Smiling Collarbones* (2017), Director - *Venanzio Revolt: I miei primi 80 anni di cinema* (2016), as Narrator - *Filmstudio, mon amour* (2015), as Sé stesso - *Mia Madre* (2015), as Giovanni · Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay - *Tutte le storie di Piera* (2014), Actor - *Autobiography of the Masked Man* (2013), Director - *Gently Dig the Abdomen* (2013), Director - *The King* (2013), Producer - *We Have a Pope* (2011), as Dott. Brezzi · Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story - *Block-notes di Habemus Papam* (2011), Producer - *Quiet Chaos* (2008), as Pietro Paladini · Screenplay - *Film Quiz* (2008), Director - *To Each His Own Cinema* (2007), as Nanni Moretti (segment "Diario di uno spettatore") · Director, Writer - *Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)* (2007), Director - *Diario di Uno Spettatore* (2007), as Nanni Moretti · Director, Writer - *The Last Championship* (2007), Writer, Producer, Director - *The Caiman's Diary* (2006), Director - *Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)* (2006), Director - *The Caiman* (2006), as Nanni Moretti / Silvio Berlusconi · Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay - *Colpi di testa* (2005), Producer - *Te lo leggo negli occhi* (2004), as Cliente negozio · Producer - *Anguish Cry of Predator Bird* (2003), Director, Producer, Writer - *The Last Customer* (2003), Director, Producer - *Il salumificio* (2002), Producer - *Zappaterra,* (2002), Producer - *The Son's Room* (2001), as Giovanni · Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sons-room.md) - *Aprile* (1998), as Nanni Moretti · Producer, Director, Writer - *Three Lives and Only One Death* (1996), as Barman — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/three-lives-and-only-one-death.md) - *Opening Day of Close-Up* (1996), Director - *The Second Time* (1995), as Alberto Sajevo · Producer - *The Only Country In The World* (1994), as Cesare Botero / Self · Director - *Caro diario* (1993), as Nanni Moretti · Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/caro-diario.md) - *The Yes Man* (1991), as Cesare Botero · Producer - *The Thing* (1990), Director, Editor, Producer - *Palombella rossa* (1989), as Michele Apicella · Director, Writer, Producer - *Cinéma, de notre temps* (1989), series, as Nanni Moretti - *It's Happening Tomorrow* (1988), as Matteo, il carbonaio · Producer - *Notte italiana* (1987), Producer - *The Mass Is Ended* (1985), as Don Giulio · Director, Story, Screenplay - *Bianca* (1984), as Michele Apicella · Director, Screenplay, Story - *Sabatoventiquattromarzo* (1984), Director - *Sweet Dreams* (1981), as Michele Apicella · Director, Story, Screenplay, Producer - *Ecce Bombo* (1978), as Michele Apicella · Director, Story, Screenplay, Idea, Script, Writer - *Padre Padrone* (1977), as Cesare - *An Autarchic at 'Palazzo'* (1977), Director, Writer - *I Am Self-Sufficient* (1976), as Michele Apicella · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Idea, Story, Script, Screenplay - *How Do You Speak, Brother?* (1974), as Don Rodrigo · Producer, Director, Writer - *Defeat* (1973), Producer, Director, Writer - *Bourgeois Pâté* (1973), as Il ragazzo con la cinepresa · Producer, Director, Writer - *Segni particolari: documentarista*, Actor - *Primo Viaggio*, Producer - *Carla Lonzi, A Feminist Story*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Nanni Moretti](https://film.one/media/person/3929587/gallery-a1eba8ff3698.jpg) Nanni Moretti — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Nanni_Moretti_Cannes_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Nanni Moretti alla libreria Feltrinelli di Via Appia a Roma (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/3929587/gallery-04cc10b1d6d9.jpg) Nanni Moretti alla libreria Feltrinelli di Via Appia a Roma (2011) — Nanni_Moretti.jpg: Marco Calvani from Rome, Italy derivative work: César (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Nanni_Moretti_%282007%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Nanni Moretti alla presentazione del suo film documentario Santiago, Italia (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/3929587/gallery-30e03d1247dd.jpg) Nanni Moretti alla presentazione del suo film documentario Santiago, Italia (2019) — Francesco Lombardi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Nanni_Moretti_-_primo_piano%2C_2019.jpg/1280px-Nanni_Moretti_-_primo_piano%2C_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Nanni Moretti, Italian film director. (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/3929587/gallery-8aca0a320871.jpg) Nanni Moretti, Italian film director. (2011) — Rastrojo (D•ES), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Nanni_Moretti_-_Seminci_2011.jpg/1280px-Nanni_Moretti_-_Seminci_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Nanni Moretti](https://film.one/media/person/3929587/gallery-0991536b776b.jpg) Nanni Moretti — Image via TMDB - ![Nanni Moretti](https://film.one/media/person/3929587/gallery-015bae8117f8.jpg) Nanni Moretti — Image via TMDB - ![Nanni Moretti](https://film.one/media/person/3929587/gallery-ef6bdce41f4a.jpg) Nanni Moretti — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Cannes Film Festival — 2 won - 2001: Palme d'Or (won), for *The Son's Room* - 1994: Cannes Best Director Award (won), for *Caro diario* ### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won - 1986: Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize (won), for *The Mass Is Ended* ### Other awards — 5 won, 4 nominated - European Film Award for Best Director 2015: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *My Mother* - Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 2012: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won) - Carrosse d'or 2004: Carrosse d'or (won) - European Film Award for Best Film 2001: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *The Son's Room* - European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director 2001: European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director (nominated), for *The Son's Room* - Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor 2001: Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *The Son's Room* - Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1996: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (won) - European Film Academy Critics Award 1994: European Film Academy Critics Award (won), for *Caro diario* - Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival 1981: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival (won), for *Sogni d'oro* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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