During the awards ceremony of David di Donatello 2024on air Friday 3 May on Rai1 from theater 5 of Cinecittà and hosted by Carlo Conti and Alessia Marcuzzi, spectacular events happen, one of which is aimed at paying homage to the great filmmaker Federico Fellini (together with his muse Sandra Milo, who passed away last January). There is also no shortage of guests ready to perform on the awards stage, such as Giorgia, Mahmood, at the center of a controversy on social media, and Irama, but also many Davids for Lifetime Achievement and the Special David to Vincenzo Mollica, protagonist of a very moving moment. But let’s see together who they are winners of the David di Donatello 2024 and what happened in particular during the evening.
David di Donatello 2024, the winners
Great triumph for Matteo Garrone and its I captaina film presented at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, which not only won the award for Best Director, but also that for Best Film of the Year, the two most important awards of the cinematographic event, while the statuette for Best International Film goes to Anatomy of a fall. But Paola Cortellesi is no exception and takes home quite a few victories, 6 in total, one less than the director of Gomorrah And Dogmanincluding those for Best Leading Actress (“It’s all a whirlwind, there are always the same old ones, the same faces. I’m anticipating everyone’s exit speech, because I agree with it. It’s a trend, I thank the director who recommended me”), the Best Original Screenplay, the David Giovani and the Best Directorial Debut, awards which are certainly relevant and demonstrate how much the film There’s still tomorrow is important and appreciated by children too. Also Emanuela Fanelli obtains a statuette for Cortellesi’s film as Best Supporting Actress, an award won in the male category by Elio Germano for Palazzina Laf, while winning Best Actor in a Leading Role Michele Riondino for the same film, which also marks his feature directorial debut. The best non-original screenplay is instead of Kidnappedfilm by Marco Bellocchiowhich also takes home a series of technical awards (makeup, hairstyling, set design, among others).
Vincenzo Mollica and Paola Cortellesi are moving
Vincenzo Mollica instead receives the David Special 2024 and a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience. When the host says: “During this period, as you said, you are accompanied by Mr. Parkinson and Mrs. Blindness“, the reporter comments: “Two sons of a bitch, look“, and then added, given his serious eye problem, that his only wish at the moment is to be able to see his wife Rosa Maria and daughter Caterina again.
Finally, we can only mention the love letter Of Paola Cortellesiwinner of the Spectator’s David, at 5 million people who went to the cinema to see her directorial debut, therefore trusting her and paying for a ticket: “I don’t like those who consider the public a mass of strangers. we all are and I like to think that there are those who have fought, those who have made mistakes, those who don’t think like me. Thanks to the five million who made the heroic gesture of leaving home, paying for a ticket, looking for parking to see our film, like that gentleman from Turin who said: ‘I’m one of those children they sent over there’ and Mrs from Genoa who said: ‘I was Delia but I’m not anymore’ Your words went beyond the movie chatter and gave a profound meaning to what we did“.
The controversies
Let us then remember the controversies inherent to the performance of Mahmood on the notes of Gold suit immediately after the homage to Federico Fellini, as many social users wonder what the singer has to do with the world of cinema: “I love Mahmood but I don’t understand why he should put it at the beginning after the homage to Fellini, okay”, or : “What does it have to do with the David di Donatello, was it a soundtrack to some film…? Ridiculous“. During the course of the evening, however, we also witness another controversy, this time born in theater 5 of Cinecittà. The protagonist of the incident is Sergio Balloone of the costume designers of Marco Bellocchio’s film Kidnapped together with Daria Calvelli: “We will make a Solomonic judgment of this statuette, we will divide it in two. There are two of us, you could have even given us two, the cheapness. I’m pretty angry. They put us on the stairs like Wanda Osiris, we would have preferred to share the room with our colleagues. Unfortunately, our work as costume and set designers is seen as the work of window dressers and housemaids, which should not happen.“.
