Italian film director Carlo Mazzacurati dies at 57

Carlo Mazzacurati, an award winning Italian film director, died at age 57.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mazzacurati died on Wednesday in Italy after a long illness.

Mazzacurati was born in Padua, and his films were screened in Locarno, Rome, and Venice. One of his most recent movies was The Passion. The Passion (La Passione) was a comedy shown in Venice in 2010, according to Variety. Some of Mazzacurati’s work was considered autobiographical, and Mazzaurati said that the tone of some of his films could be more emotional than ironic. The Passion was produced by Domenico Procacci and co-financed by RAI Cinema.

Mazzacurati began his film career in eighties and directed over twenty films including The Right Distance, An Italian Romance, Jailbreak, Holy Tongue, and Il Toro. Mazzacurati garnered a number of accolades over the years. He was nominated for the Golden Lion Award several times in Venice. He was also nominated for several David di Donatello or Silver Ribbon Awards. Mazzacurati won the Silver Lion Award for Il Toro in 1994.