57th David di Donatello

57th David di Donatello
57th David di Donatello
Date	4 May 2012
Site	Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome, Italy
Hosted by	Tullio Solenghi
Highlights
Best Picture	Caesar Must Die
Most awards	Caesar Must Die (5)
Most nominations	Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (16)
	← 56th; David di Donatello; 58th →;

The 57th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 4 May 2012.^[1]^[2]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Caesar Must Die – directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
We Have a Pope – directed by Nanni Moretti
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy – directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
Terraferma – directed by Emanuele Crialese
This Must Be the Place – directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Best Producer

Grazia Volpi – Caesar Must Die
Nanni Moretti, Domenico Procacci – We Have a Pope
Francesco Bonsembiante – Shun Li and the Poet
Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Nicola Giuliano, Andrea Occhipinti, Francesca Cima – This Must Be the Place

Best Director

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – Caesar Must Die
Nanni Moretti – We Have a Pope
Ferzan Özpetek – Magnificent Presence
Marco Tullio Giordana – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Emanuele Crialese – Terraferma
Paolo Sorrentino – This Must Be the Place

Best New Director

Francesco Bruni – Easy!
Stefano Sollima – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
Alice Rohrwacher – Heavenly Body
Andrea Segre – Shun Li and the Poet
Guido Lombardi – Là-bas: A Criminal Education

Best Actor

Michel Piccoli – We Have a Pope
Fabrizio Bentivoglio – Easy!
Elio Germano – Magnificent Presence
Marco Giallini – A Flat for Three
Valerio Mastandrea – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Pierfrancesco Favino – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Giuseppe Battiston – Shun Li and the Poet
Marco Giallini – ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards
Fabrizio Gifuni – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Renato Scarpa – We Have a Pope

Best Supporting Actress

Michela Cescon – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Barbora Bobuľová – Easy!
Anita Caprioli – Heavenly Body
Cristiana Capotondi – Kryptonite!
Margherita Buy – We Have a Pope

David di Donatello for Best Screenplay

Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello – This Must Be the Place
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Fabio Cavalli – Caesar Must Die
Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli – We Have a Pope
Marco Tullio Giordana, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Francesco Bruni – Easy!

Best Cinematography

Luca Bigazzi – This Must Be the Place
Paolo Carnera – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
Simone Zampagni – Caesar Must Die
Alessandro Pesci – We Have a Pope
Roberto Forza – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Sets and Decorations

Paola Bizzarri – We Have a Pope
Francesco Frigeri – The Entrepreneur
Andrea Crisanti – Magnificent Presence
Giancarlo Basili – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Stefania Cella – This Must Be the Place

Best Score

David Byrne – This Must Be the Place
Umberto Scipione – Benvenuti al Nord
Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia – Caesar Must Die
Franco Piersanti – We Have a Pope
Pasquale Catalano – Magnificent Presence

Best Original Song

"If It Falls, It Falls" from This Must Be the Place – Composed by David Byrne (music) and Will Oldham (lyrics), performed by Michael Brunnock –
"Sometimes" from Benvenuti al Nord – Composed by Umberto Scipione and Alessia Scipione, performed by Alessia Scipione –
"Gitmem daha" from Magnificent Presence Sezen Aksu, Pasquale Catalano and Yildirim Turker, performed by Sezen Aksu
"Therese" from A Flat for Three – Composed by Gaetano Curreri, Andrea Fornili and Angelica Caronia, performed by Angelica Ponti
"Scialla!" from Easy! – Composed and performed by Amir Issaa

Best Editing

Roberto Perpignani – Caesar Must Die
Patrizio Marone – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
Esmeralda Calabria – We Have a Pope
Francesca Calvelli – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Cristiano Travaglioli – This Must Be the Place

Best Sound

Benito Alchimede, Brando Mosca – Caesar Must Die
Gilberto Martinelli – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
Alessandro Zanon – We Have a Pope
Fulgenzio Ceccon – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Ray Cross, William Sarokin – This Must Be the Place

Best Costumes

Lina Nerli Taviani – We Have a Pope
Rossano Marchi – Kryptonite!
Alessandro Lai – Magnificent Presence
Francesca Livia Sartori – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Karen Patch – This Must Be the Place

Best Visual Effects

Stefano Marinoni, Paola Trisoglio for Visualogie – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Palantir Digital Media – The Arrival of Wang
Mario Zanot for Storyteller – We Have a Pope
Stefano Marinoni and Paola Trisoglio for Visualogie, Rodolfo Migliari for Chromatica – This Must Be the Place
Rainbow CGI – The Last Man on Earth

Best Make-up Artist

Luisa Abel – This Must Be the Place
Manlio Rocchetti – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
Maurizio Fazzini – Kryptonite!
Ermanno Spera – Magnificent Presence
Enrico Iacoponi – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Hairstylist

Kim Santantonio – This Must Be the Place
Carlo Barucci – We Have a Pope
Mauro Tamagnini – Kryptonite!
Francesca De Simone – Magnificent Presence
Ferdinando Merolla – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Documentary Feature

Tahrir Liberation Square – directed by Stefano Savona
The Castle – directed by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti
Lasciando la baia del re – directed by Claudia Cipriani
Pasta nera – directed by Alessandro Piva
Polvere – Il grande processo dell'amianto – directed by Niccolò Bruna and Andrea Prandstraller
Zavorra – directed by Vincenzo Mineo

Best Short Film

Dell'ammazzare il maiale – directed by Simone Massi
Ce l'hai un minuto? – directed by Alessandro Bardani and Luca Di Prospero
Cusutu n' coddu – directed by Giovanni La Pàrola
L'estate che non viene – directed by Pasquale Marino
Tiger Boy – directed by Gabriele Mainetti

Best European Film

The Intouchables – directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
Carnage – directed by Roman Polański
Melancholia – directed by Lars von Trier
Le Havre – directed by Aki Kaurismäki
The Artist – directed by Michel Hazanavicius

Best Foreign Film

A Separation – directed by Asghar Farhadi
Drive – directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Hugo (Hugo) – directed by Martin Scorsese
The Ides of March – directed by George Clooney
The Tree of Life – directed by Terrence Malick

David Youth Award

Easy! – directed by Francesco Bruni

References

^ "David di Donatello, sfida tra Giordana, Moretti e Sorrentino". Sky TG24 (in Italian). 12 April 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
^ Lyman, Eric J. (4 May 2012). "'Caesar Must Die' Tops Donatello Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 July 2024.

[1] "David di Donatello, sfida tra Giordana, Moretti e Sorrentino". Sky TG24 (in Italian). 12 April 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2024.

[2] Lyman, Eric J. (4 May 2012). "'Caesar Must Die' Tops Donatello Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 12 July 2024.

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