Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio took dwelling Greatest Movie and Director on the seventieth version of Italy’s David di Donatello Awards on Wednesday night, in a historic win for a feminine director.
Delpero is the primary girl to win the David di Donatello Greatest Director prize within the historical past of the awards, and solely the third feminine filmmaker to win Greatest Movie.
The movie picked up seven David di Donatellos in whole which additionally included Greatest Authentic Screenplay, Casting, Producer, Cinematography and Sound.
Set in a distant mountain village in 1944, Vermiglio revolves round a household whose life is disrupted by the arrival of a abandoned soldier. The function world premiered in Venice the place it received the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and went on to be Italy’s 2025 Oscars submission.
It was an traditionally robust evening for feminine administrators.
Different massive winners included Italian actress and singer-songwriter Margherita Vicario who received Greatest First Movie, Composer and Track for function directorial Gloria.
The movie, which debuted within the Berlin in 2024, is ready in Venice on the finish of the 1700s and revolves round an orphanage and music conservatory for women, the place the younger fees are skilled to the very best customary however denied the suitable to shine within the wider world.
Valeria Golino’s The Artwork of Pleasure additionally carried out nicely clinching Greatest Actress (Tecla Insolia), Supporting Actress (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Tailored Screenplay.
The drama follows a lady born into modest circumstances in Sicily in 1900, who goes on to navigate life in a convent, after which carves herself out a spot in aristocratic family reaching happiness and emancipation within the course of. It debuted as a Particular Screening in Cannes.
A giant winner on the craft aspect was Gianluca Jodice’s French-language drama The Flood, starring Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The historic drama received Greatest Artwork Path, Costumes, Make-up and Greatest Hair.
The ceremony unfolding in Theater 5 of Rome’s Cinecittà studios kicked off simply hours after the start of the papal conclave within the Vatican Metropolis on the opposite aspect of the town, to determine the subsequent head of the Roman Catholic Church following the demise of Pope Francis.
Regardless of current a spike in reputation for Edward Berger’s well timed drama Conclave, the movie misplaced out to Sean Baker’s Anora within the Greatest Worldwide Movie class.
Timothee Chalamet and c attend seventieth David Di Donatello
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In different highlights Timothée Chalamet, who touched down in Rome with Kylie Jenner and his father, acquired a Particular David Award for Cinematic Excellence, alongside Italian actress Ornella Muti.
Requested on stage about his ties to Italy by means of Luca Guadagnino, who forged him in his breakout function in Name Me By Your Identify, Chalamet replied: “Luca might be an important individual in my profession.”
He went on to joke that he if had not gone into appearing he would have racked up a “higher scoring” document than Italian soccer legend Francesco Totti.
Additional honoraries included director Director Pupi Avati, who was feted with a Profession Achievement Prize, whereas Monica Bellucci introduced Giuseppe Tornatore with a Particular Cinecittà Prize marking the David di Donatello’s seventieth version.
The David di Donatello prize for probably the most considered Italian movie went to Ferzan Ozpetek’s Diamanti.
The Full Listing of Winners
Greatest Movie
Vermiglio, Maura Delpero
Greatest Director
Maura Delpero, Vermiglio
Greatest Directorial Debut
Gloria!, Margherita Vicario
Greatest Authentic Screenplay
Vermiglio, Maura Delpero
Greatest Tailored Screenplay
The Artwork of Pleasure, Valeria Golino, Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella, Luca Infascelli, Stefano Sardo
Greatest Producer
Vermiglio, Francesca Andreoli, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Maura Delpero for cinedora, with Rai Cinema, in collaboration with charades (France), Versus (Belgium)
Greatest Actress
The Artwork Of Pleasure, Tecla Insolia
Greatest Actor
The Nice Ambition, Elio Germano
Greatest Supporting Actress
The Artwork of Pleasure, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Greatest Supporting Actor
Familia, Francesco di Leva
Greatest Casting
Vermiglio, Stefania Rodà, Maurilio Mangano
Greatest Cinematography
Vermiglio, Mikhail Krichman
Greatest Composer
Gloria!, Margherita Vicario, Davide Pavanello, Iddu Colapesce
Greatest Authentic Track
Gloria! Aria!
Greatest Artwork Path
The Flood, Tonino Zera, Maria Grazia Schirripa, Carlotta Desmann
Greatest Costumes
The Flood, Massimo Cantini Parrini
Greatest Make-up
The Flood, Alessandra Vita, Valentina VIsintin
Greatest Hair
The Flood, Aldo Signoretti, Domingo Santoro
Greatest Modifying
The Nice Ambition, Jacopo Quadri
Greatest Sound
Vermiglio, Dana Farzanehpour, Hervé Guyader, Hervé Guyader, Emmanuel de Boisseau
Greatest Particular Results
Naples To New York, Victor Perez
Greatest Documentary
Ukrainian Whispers, Francesca Mannocchi
Greatest Worldwide Image
Anora, Sean Baker
Greatest Quick
Domenica Sera, Matteo Tortone
Youth Prize
Naples To New York, Gabriele Salvatores
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