The David di Donatello Award for Best Film (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior film) is one of the David di Donatello awards presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI). The award recognizes the most outstanding Italian film theatrically released in Italy during the year preceding the ceremony.[1][2] The award was first given in 1970, and became competitive in 1981.[3]
| David di Donatello Award for Best Film | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Film of the Year |
| Country | Italy |
| Presented by | Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI) |
| First awarded | 1970 (for the films released during the 1969/1970 film season) |
| Most recent winner | Io capitano (2024) |
| Website | daviddidonatello |
Nominees and winners are selected via runoff voting by all the members of the Accademia.[2][4]
Winners and nominees
editBelow, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by other nominees.[1]
1970s
edit1980s
edit1990s
edit2000s
edit2010s
edit| Year | Film | Producer(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009/10 (55th) | |||
| The Man Who Will Come | Simone Bachini and Giorgio Diritti | ||
| Baarìa | Tarak Ben Ammar | ||
| The First Beautiful Thing | Marco Cohen, Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Carlo Virzì, and Paolo Virzì | ||
| Loose Cannons | Domenico Procacci | ||
| Vincere | Mario Gianani | ||
| 2010/11 (56th) | |||
| Noi credevamo | Conchita Airoldi, Carlo Degli Esposti, and Giorgio Magliulo | ||
| Basilicata Coast to Coast | Isabella Cocuzza, Mark Lombardo, Elisabetta Olmi, and Arturo Paglia | ||
| Benvenuti al Sud | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, Francesca Longardi, and Riccardo Tozzi | ||
| La nostra vita | Marco Chimenz, Fabio Conversi, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi | ||
| A Quiet Life | Fabrizio Mosca and Christer von Lindequist | ||
| 2011/12 (57th) | |||
| Caesar Must Die | Grazia Volpi | ||
| Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi | ||
| Terraferma | Marco Chimenz, Fabio Conversi, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi | ||
| This Must Be the Place | Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, and Andrea Occhipinti | ||
| We Have a Pope | Jean Labadie, Nanni Moretti, and Domenico Procacci | ||
| 2012/13 (58th) | |||
| The Best Offer | Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia | ||
| Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood | Domenico Procacci | ||
| Long Live Freedom | Angelo Barbagallo | ||
| Me and You | Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli | ||
| Siberian Education | Marco Chimenz, Gina Gardini, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi | ||
| 2013/14 (59th) | |||
| Human Capital | Marco Cohen and Benedetto Habib | ||
| The Chair of Happiness | Angelo Barbagallo | ||
| The Great Beauty | Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano | ||
| I Can Quit Whenever I Want | Andrea Paris, Domenico Procacci, and Matteo Rovere | ||
| The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer | Fausto Brizzi, Mario Gianani, and Lorenzo Mieli | ||
| 2014/15 (60th) | |||
| Black Souls | Luigi Musini and Olivia Musini | ||
| Greenery Will Bloom Again | Luigi Musini and Elisabetta Olmi | ||
| Hungry Hearts | Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli | ||
| Leopardi | Carlo Degli Esposti, Margherita Murolo, and Nicola Serra | ||
| Mia madre | Nanni Moretti and Domenico Procacci | ||
| 2015/16 (61st) | |||
| Perfect Strangers | Marco Belardi | ||
| Don't Be Bad | Paolo Bogna, Simone Isola, and Valerio Mastandrea | ||
| Fire at Sea | Roberto Cicutto, Paolo Del Brocco, Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou, Donatella Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, and Martine Saada | ||
| Tale of Tales | Matteo Garrone, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jean Labadie, and Jeremy Thomas | ||
| Youth | Carlotta Calori, Francesca Cima, and Nicola Giuliano | ||
| 2016 (62nd) | |||
| Like Crazy | Marco Belardi | ||
| Fiore | Beppe Caschetto and Rita Rognoni | ||
| Indivisible | Attilio De Razza e Pierpaolo Verga | ||
| Italian Race | Domenico Procacci | ||
| Sweet Dreams | Beppe Caschetto | ||
| 2017 (63rd) | |||
| Love and Bullets | Carlo Macchitella and Manetti Bros. | ||
| A Ciambra | Paolo Carpignano, Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Gwyn Sannia, Marc Schmidheiny, and Rodrigo Teixeira | ||
| Cinderella the Cat | Luciano Stella and Maria Carolina Terzi | ||
| Nico, 1988 | Valérie Bournonville, Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, and Joseph Rouschop | ||
| Tenderness | Agostino Saccá, Giuseppe Saccá, and Maria Grazia Saccá | ||
| 2018 (64th) | |||
| Dogman | Paolo Del Brocco, Matteo Garrone, Jean Labadie, and Jeremy Thomas | ||
| Call Me By Your Name* | Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, James Ivory, Marco Morabito, Howard Rosenman, Peter Spears, and Rodrigo Teixeira | ||
| Euphoria | Viola Prestieri | ||
| Happy as Lazzaro | Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Alexandra Henochsberg, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, and Michael Weber | ||
| On My Skin | Luigi Musini, Olivia Musini, and Andrea Occhipinti | ||
| 2019 (65th) | |||
| The Traitor | IBC Movie, Kavac Film, and Rai Cinema | ||
| Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, and Rai Cinema | ||
| Pinocchio | Archimede, Rai Cinema, and Le Pacte | ||
| Piranhas | Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra | ||
| The First King: Birth of an Empire | Groenlandia, Gapbusters, Rai Cinema and Roman Citizen |
2020s
edit| Year | Film | Producer(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (66th) | |||
| Hidden Away | Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra | ||
| Bad Tales | Agostino Saccà, Giuseppe Saccà , Rai Cinema | ||
| Hammamet | Agostino Saccà, Maria Grazia Saccà | ||
| The Macaluso Sisters | Marica Stocchi, Marta Donzelli | ||
| Miss Marx | |||
| 2021 (67th) | |||
| The Hand of God | |||
| Ennio | |||
| Freaks Out | |||
| The Inner Cage | |||
| The King of Laughter | |||
| 2022 (68th) | |||
| The Eight Mountains | |||
| Exterior Night | |||
| Lord of the Ants | |||
| Nostalgia | |||
| Strangeness | |||
| 2023 (69th) | |||
| Io capitano | |||
| A Brighter Tomorrow | |||
| La chimera | |||
| Kidnapped | |||
| There's Still Tomorrow |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Chronology". daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Accademia del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ a b Niola, Gabriele (12 December 2018). "Ecco i nuovi David di Donatello: nuova giuria, nuovo sistema di votazione, nuovi possibili candidati. Fuori lo streaming". Badtaste.it (in Italian). Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ Lancia, Enrico (1998). I premi del cinema [The awards of cinema] (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Gremese Editore. pp. 251–252. ISBN 8877422211.
- ^ "Regolamento". daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Accademia del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
External links
edit- David di Donatello for Best Film at IMDb
- Daviddidonatello.it (official site)