He won Best Director at the European Film Awards and at the David di Donatello Awards for Gomorrah and his film Reality competed in competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix. His latest film Tale of Tales was selected to compete for the Palme dOr at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, tutto il cinema di Matteo Garrone, Rome, Edizioni Sabinae,2008. The Films of Matteo Garrone, Italian Cinema Is Not Embalmed in William Hope Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press,2010, pp. 175–187