Vittorio Cecchi Gori

Italian film producer and politician

Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori in 1989

Member of the Senate
In office 15 April 1994 – 29 May 2001
Constituency	Tuscany

Personal details
Born	(1942-04-27) 27 April 1942 (age 82) Florence, Italy
Political party	Italian People's Party
Spouse	Rita Rusić (m. 1983; div. 2000)
Children	2
Occupation	Film producer politician

Vittorio Cecchi Gori (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈtʃekki ˈɡɔːri]; born 27 April 1942) is an Italian film producer and politician. He pleaded guilty to bankruptcy and was sentenced in February 2020 to eight years and five months of imprisonment.^[1]

Born in Florence, Italy, he is the son of Mario Cecchi Gori. He has produced numerous films, most notably Il Postino: The Postman (1994), which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, and Life Is Beautiful (1997), which received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He was also senator from the Italian People's Party.

He owned the football club Fiorentina from 1993 to 2002, as well as the private television channel La7. On 3 June 2008, he was arrested in Rome for bankruptcy, and again on 25 July 2011.

References

^ "Vittorio Cecchi Gori piantonato in stato di detenzione in ospedale dopo la condanna a 8 anni" (in Italian). RAI News. 2020-02-29.

External links

Vittorio Cecchi Gori at IMDb
Profile at Italian Senate

Italian Senate
Preceded by Title jointly held	Senator Legislatures XII, XIII 1994–2001	Succeeded by Title jointly held

Nastro d'Argento Award for Best Producer

Peg Film (1954)
Dino De Laurentiis / Carlo Ponti (1955)
Cines (1956)
Carlo Ponti (1957)
Dino De Laurentiis (1958)
Franco Cristaldi (1959)
Goffredo Lombardo (1960)
Dino De Laurentiis (1961)
Alfredo Bini (1962)
Goffredo Lombardo (1963)
Angelo Rizzoli (1964)
Franco Cristaldi (1965)
Marco Vicario (1966)
Antonio Musu (1967)
Alfredo Bini (1968)
Luigi Carpentieri / Ermanno Donati (1969)
Alberto Grimaldi (1970)
Silvio Clementelli (1971)
Mario Cecchi Gori (1972)
Alberto Grimaldi (1973)
Franco Cristaldi (1974)
Rusconi Film (1975)
Andrea Rizzoli (1976)
Edmondo Amati (1977)
RAI TV (1978)
RAI TV (1979)
Franco Cristaldi / Nicola Carraro (1980)
Fulvio Lucisano / Mauro Berardi (1981)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1982)
RAI TV (1983)
Gianni Minervini (1984)
Fulvio Lucisano (1985)
Fulvio Lucisano (1986)
Franco Committeri (1987)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (1988)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1989)
Claudio Bonivento (1990)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1991)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (1992)
Angelo Rizzoli (1993)
Fulvio Lucisano / Leo Pescarolo (1994)
Mario Cecchi Gori / Vittorio Cecchi Gori (1995)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (1996)
Antonio Avati / Pupi Avati / Aurelio De Laurentiis (1997)
Marco Risi / Maurizio Tedesco (1998)
Medusa Produzione (1999)
Giuseppe Tornatore (2000)
Tilde Corsi / Gianni Romoli (2001)
Fandango (2002)
Fandango (2003)
Angelo Barbagallo (2004)
Aurelio De Laurentiis (2005)
Riccardo Tozzi / Marco Chimenz / Giovanni Stabilini (2006)
Angelo Barbagallo / Nanni Moretti (2007)
Domenico Procacci (2008)
Fabio Conversi / Maurizio Coppolecchia / Nicola Giuliano / Andrea Occhipinti / Francesca Cima (2009)
Giorgio Diritti / Simone Bachini (2010)
Domenico Procacci (2011)
Domenico Procacci (2012)
Isabella Cocuzza / Arturo Paglia (2013)
Domenico Procacci / Matteo Rovere (2014)
Luigi Musini / Olivia Musini (2015)
Pietro Valsecchi (2016)
Attilio De Razza / Pierpaolo Verga (2017)
Archimede / Rai Cinema / Matteo Garrone / Paolo Del Brocco (2018)
Groenlandia / Rai Cinema / 3 Marys Entertainment (2019)