59th David di Donatello

59th David di Donatello
59th David di Donatello
Date	10 June 2014
Site	De Paolis Studios, Rome, Italy
Hosted by	Paolo Ruffini and Anna Foglietta
Highlights
Best Picture	Perfect Strangers
Most awards	They Call Me Jeeg (8)
Most nominations	They Call Me Jeeg (17)
Television coverage
Network	Sky Cinema
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The 59th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 10 June 2014.^[1]^[2]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Human Capital – directed by Paolo Virzì
The Great Beauty – directed by Paolo Sorrentino
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer – directed by Pierfrancesco Diliberto
The Chair of Happiness – directed by Carlo Mazzacurati
I Can Quit Whenever I Want – directed by Sydney Sibilia

Best Producer

Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima for Indigo Film - The Great Beauty
Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Maco Cohen for Indiana Production, Philippe Gompel, Birgit Kemner for Manny Films, with Rai Cinema and Motorino Amaranto - Human Capital
Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli for Wildside with Rai Cinema - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri for Buena Onda with Rai Cinema - Miele
Massimo Cristaldi, Fabrizio Mosca - Salvo
Domenico Procacci, Matteo Rovere with Rai Cinema - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Director

Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty
Carlo Mazzacurati - The Chair of Happiness
Ferzan Özpetek - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Ettore Scola - How Strange to Be Named Federico
Paolo Virzì - Human Capital

Best New Director

Pierfrancesco Diliberto - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Valeria Golino - Miele
Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza - Salvo
Matteo Oleotto - Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot
Sydney Sibilia - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Actor

Toni Servillo - The Great Beauty
Giuseppe Battiston - Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot
Fabrizio Bentivoglio - Human Capital
Carlo Cecchi - Miele
Edoardo Leo - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Actress

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Human Capital
Paola Cortellesi - Sotto una buona stella
Sabrina Ferilli - The Great Beauty
Kasia Smutniak - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Jasmine Trinca - Miele

Best Supporting Actor

Fabrizio Gifuni - Human Capital
Valerio Aprea - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Giuseppe Battiston - The Chair of Happiness
Libero De Rienzo - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Stefano Fresi - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Carlo Verdone - The Great Beauty

Best Supporting Actress

Valeria Golino - Human Capital
Claudia Gerini - Blame Freud
Paola Minaccioni - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Galatea Ranzi - The Great Beauty
Milena Vukotic - The Chair of Happiness

David di Donatello for Best Screenplay

Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni, Paolo Virzì - Human Capital
Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello - The Great Beauty
Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Marco Martani - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella, Valeria Golino - Miele
Valerio Attanasio, Andrea Garello, Sydney Sibilia - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Cinematography

Luca Bigazzi - The Great Beauty
Jérôme Alméras - Human Capital
Daniele Ciprì - Salvo
Gian Filippo Corticelli - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Gergely Poharnok - Miele

Best Production Design

Stefania Cella - The Great Beauty
Giancarlo Basili - Those Happy Years
Marco Dentici - Salvo
Marta Maffucci - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Mauro Radaelli - Human Capital

Best Score

Pivio e Aldo De Scalzi - Song'e Napule
Pasquale Catalano - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Lele Marchitelli - The Great Beauty
Umberto Scipione - Sotto una buona stella
Carlo Virzì - Human Capital

Best Original Song

"A' verità" from Song'e Napule - Music and lyrics by Francesco Liccardo, Rosario Castagnola, Sarah Tartuffo, Alessandro Nelson Garofalo, performed by Franco Ricciardi
"I'm Sorry" from Human Capital - Music and lyrics by Giacomo Vaccai, performed by Jackie O'S Farm
"A malìa" from The Art of Happiness - Music and lyrics by Dario Sansone, performed by Foja
"Tosami lady" from The Mafia Kills Only in Summer - Music and lyrics by Santi Pulvirenti, performed by Domenico Centamore
"Smetto quando voglio" from I Can Quit Whenever I Want - Music and lyrics by Domenico "Scarda" Scardamaglio
"Dove cadono i fulmini" from Una piccola impresa meridionale - Music, lyrics and performed Erica Mou

Best Editing

Cecilia Zanuso - Human Capital
Giogiò Franchini - Miele
Patrizio Marone - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Cristiano Travaglioli - The Great Beauty
Gianni Vezzosi - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Sound

Roberto Mozzarelli - Human Capital
Maurizio Argenterie - Those Happy Years
Angelo Bonanni - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Emanuele Cecere - The Great Beauty
Marco Grillo, Mirco Pantalla - Fasten Your Seatbelts

Best Costumes

Daniela Ciancio - The Great Beauty
Maria Rita Barbera - Those Happy Years
Alessandro Lai - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Bettina Pontiggia - Human Capital
Cristiana Ricceri - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer

Best Digital Effects

Rodolfo Migliari, Luca Della Grotta for Chromatica - The Great Beauty
EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani - Human Capital
Paola Trisoglio, Stefano Marinoni for Visualogie - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Rodolfo Migliari for Chromatica - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Palantir Digital - Song'e Napule

Best Make-up Artist

Maurizio Silvi - The Great Beauty
Dalia Colli - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Paola Gattabrusi - Those Happy Years
Caroline Phillipponnat - Human Capital
Ermanno Spera - Fasten Your Seatbelts

Best Hairstylist

Aldo Signoretti - The Great Beauty
Francesca De Simone - Fasten Your Seatbelts
Stéphane Desmarez - Human Capital
Massimo Gattabrusi - Those Happy Years
Sharim Sabatini - The Chair of Happiness

Best Documentary Feature

Stop the Pounding Heart – directed by Roberto Minervini
Dal profondo – directed by Valentina Pedicini
Il segreto –directed by Cyop & Kaf
In utero Srebrenica – directed by Giuseppe Carrieri
L'amministratore – directed by Vincenzo Marra
Sacro GRA – directed by Gianfranco Rosi

Best Short Film

37°4 S – directed by Adriano Valerio
A passo d'uomo – directed by Giovanni Aloi
Bella di notte – directed by Paolo Zucca
Lao – directed by Gabriele Sabatino Nardis
Non sono nessuno – directed by Francesco Segrè

Best European Film

Philomena – directed by Stephen Frears
Ida – directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
Blue Is the Warmest Colour – directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Still Life – directed by Uberto Pasolini
Venus in Fur – directed by Roman Polański

Best Foreign Film

The Grand Budapest Hotel – directed by Wes Anderson
12 Years a Slave – directed by Steve McQueen
American Hustle – directed by David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine – directed by Woody Allen
The Wolf of Wall Street – directed by Martin Scorsese

David Youth Award

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer – Pierfrancesco Diliberto
Human Capital – Paolo Virzì
The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino
Sole a catinelle – Gennaro Nunziante
Blame Freud – Paolo Genovese

Special David Awards

Sophia Loren
Andrea Occhipinti
Marco Bellocchio (career award)
Carlo Mazzacurati (career award) (posthumous)
Riz Ortolani (career award) (posthumous)

References

^ "David di Donatello, le candidature". Mymovies.it (in Italian). 12 May 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
^ Lyman, Eric (10 June 2014). "Italy's David di Donatello Awards Honor 'The Great Beauty,' 'The Human Capital'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 July 2024.

[1] "David di Donatello, le candidature". Mymovies.it (in Italian). 12 May 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2024.

[2] Lyman, Eric (10 June 2014). "Italy's David di Donatello Awards Honor 'The Great Beauty,' 'The Human Capital'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 July 2024.

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