Marco Ponti

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marco Ponti
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jul 25, 1967(1967-07-25)
Age	57
Birthplace	Avigliana
Country	Italy
Birth City	Piedmont
Horoscope	Cancer

Marco Ponti Biography

Marco Ponti is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on July 25, 1967 in Avigliana, Piedmont, Italy. Marco Ponti, born 25 July 1967 in Avigliana (Piedmont), is an Italian film director.

Marco Ponti was also a director. He co-wrote several movies, including Se Fossi In Te di Giulio Manfredonia, Cattleya (2001), L’uomo perfetto, Cattleya/Warner (2005–nominee for Best Story in Nastri D’Argento del Cinema Italiano 2006 (the critics’ award), and Cardiofitness (2007). In 2007, he also wrote and edited The Odd Couple’s Italian adaptation.

The movie repeated his success in the DVD edition, reaching number 1 in the charts, and achieving the cult status between Italian moviegoers (same happened for the soundtrack CD). Now, it is considered the movie who defined the post-gen X in Italy. Santa Maradona became as well a popular movie in the film festivals circuit (from Toronto to Cuba, from Burkina Faso to Japan, from Berkeley to Sydney) and has been broadcast in several countries all around the five continents, and was chosen by Wim Wenders in 2003 as a case study in new film-making in the Berlin Film Festival.

In 2004, Marco Ponti writes and direct his sophomore movie: A/R Andata + Ritorno (Round Trip) starring again Libero De Rienzo with Spanish beauty Vanessa Incontrada and the Indian star Kabir Bedi. The movie was in top ten charts both in theaters and DVD sells and was screened, between others, in the Mill Valley Film Festival (US), Honolulu, New Zealand and Australia.

After writing and/or directoring some award-winning short films (Benevenuto, a San Salvario won in 1998 the European Film Award; Amsterdam won an award in 1999 for the best short feature, and Amsterdam won an award in 1999 for the best actor at Saint Vincent Festival), Santa Maradona was his first feature film as a writer/director and has been one the biggest hits of 2001.

Marco Ponti Net Worth

Marco Ponti is one of the richest Film Director from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marco Ponti 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating in Modern Letters from the University of Turin, he began working as a copywriter as well as as an assistant at University of Turin’s Faculty of Semiotics. He attended the Turin Holden School’s scriptwriting course in 1995. The following year, he continued his work at the same location under Alessandro Baricco. He attended the RAI Cinema Fiction School’s 1997 course for movie writers. The same year, he published a book about Quentin Tarantino.

Marco Ponti has also been involved in theatre since 1997. His last works were the translations / adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2005) and Ethan Coen’s off-Broadway play Almost an Evening.

Starring Stefano Accorsi, Libero De Rienzo, Anita Caprioli e Mandala Tayde, the movie won two David di Donatello Awards (the award given by the Italian Academy of Motion Pictures) in 2002 for Best New Director and Best Supporting Actor, the Ciak d’Oro Award 2002 (given by the most influential movie magazine, Ciak) and, always in the same year, the Critics Award and Best Actor in the International Film Festival of Mar del Plata (Argentina).

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In 2015 he co-wrote and directed the adaptation of the best seller novel Io che amo solo te (Loving only you), written by Luca Bianchini. Shot in Polignano a Mare, in the Apulia region, starring Riccardo Scamarcio, Michele Placido, Maria Pia Calzone, Luciana Littizzetto and again Eva Riccobono. The movie reached number one in the first weekend release.

Facts & Trivia

Marco Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Marco Ponti celebrates birthday on July 25 of every year.

Both movies Io che amo solo te and La Cena di Natale were screened at the italian television Rai Uno in december 2017 and went straight to #1 and #2 in the season television charts.