Filippo Scotti (Gravedona, 22 December 1999) is an Italian actor, protagonist of the film It was the hand of God presented at the Venice Film Festival 2021, with which he won the Marcello Mastroianni Award as best emerging actor.He began his acting career in 2010, when he enrolled in various theatrical courses and workshops in Naples. After the theater, where he made his debut as a protagonist in the show Il Marchese di Collino directed by Patrizia Di Martino, he began acting in several short films by directors such as Gabriele Russo and Francesca Macrì. In the same year he gets a small role in the 1994 television series and then two years later in the series produced by Netflix Black Moon and in the film The King dies.The first leading role comes in 2021 in It was the hand of God, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, where he plays the role of the alter ego of Sorrentino himself as a young man. For this interpretation he won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize at the 78th Venice International Exhibition.
