Film Commission Torino Piemonte

In 1906, a young Italian sets out for the American Dream: Gaetano "Tony" Gaudio. In the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, he soon strengthened his passion for cinematography, born years earlier in the family laboratory in Cosenza and which became a profession in Turin with Ambrosio Film, until moving to Hollywood, where he will be consecrated in 1937 with a Oscar Award, the first in history for an Italian. Those were the years in which cinema was born both in Italy, with the primacy of Piedmont years before Rome, and in the USA, with the rise of the first production companies in New York and the first Studios in Los Angeles. Tony Gaudio contributed directly, as a pioneer of cinematography photography, to the birth of the film industry as we know it today, soon becoming a leading figure in Hollywood cinema and its institutions such as the American Society of Cinematographers, working with directors such as Howard Hawks and Howard Hughes, as well as with actresses such as Greta Garbo and Bette Davis. He helped to create the look of the first films of the newly formed Warner Bros., on which the noir genre subsequently developed. Upon his death in 1951, Tony Gaudio's memory slowly fades and his statuette is lost. 70 years later, an American detective goes on his trail, reconstructing the fascinating human and professional life of Tony Gaudio, in the hope of finding the Lost Oscar.