Classic Film Club

Awards

AWARDS

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

BAFTA NOMINEE
WINNER

Cinema Paradiso

  • BAFTA iconActor in aBAFTA icon
  • Supporting Role
Cinema Paradiso
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • 1988

SALVATORE CASCIO

Salvatore Cascio

Salvatore Cascio (1988)

Biography

BIO

Salvatore Cascio was born in Palazzo Adriano, Palermo, Sicilia, Italy in 1979.

Cascio made his film debut in Cinema Paradiso (1988) at the age of 9 in a role for which he won the BAFTA Award for Actor in a Supporting Role.

A child actor, Cascio appeared in another 5 movies through 1991.

Films

NOTED FILMS

Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • 1988
  • A small boy grows up running the theater camera in a Sicilian village.   He becomes a famous director and returns to his home after a 30 year absence to attend the funeral of an old mentor.
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