David di Donatello 2024, all the winners

He wins Matteo Garronehis film about migrants wins, or rather the reverse shot of the history of migrants, what happens before arriving in Italy «and which is never shown», as the director explains.** I captain** is the best ai movie Donatello’s David. Garrone also receives the award for best director, and with these two David takes home the two most important prizes. «I would like to thank all the extras in the film, who are real migrants who made the journey, who co-directed many scenes with me», says the director. «This film is dedicated to those who died at sea», says the actor Seydou Sarr, who in the story plays one of the two boys who dream of Italy. The finale of the awards ceremony is all about I captainalready an Oscar finalist, but the evening up to this point had had another protagonist: Paola Cortellesi. Hers are six Davids: best supporting actress Emanuela Fanelli, the spectator’s David, the Giovani one, the best directorial debut, the original screenplay and also the leading actress, who is always Paola Cortellesi. So much so that she herself jokes about it: «It’s all a big deal. The same faces. I anticipate the comments at the exit, which I agree with”, “Tonight is a trend”. The 5 and a half million grossing director established herself with hers There’s still tomorrow, a story of domestic violence set in already a sensational record at the Italian box office. «This is the only certainty», says Cortellesi in the first speech, «I want to thank the spectators, we dream of full rooms and shared emotions. I thank my producers who, faced with a film in black and white, in Roman dialect, with ballets and with beatings, wanted to do so, to the artistic and technical cast. 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 the lady from Genoa who said “I was Delia but I’m not anymore”.

Among the other winners, the best leading and supporting actor are respectively Michele Riondino and Elio Germanofriends in life and colleagues on the set of Laf building, Riondino’s directorial debut. It is one of the moments in which civil commitment bursts onto the David stage. «This film talks about work, something somewhat forgotten by cinema, but we have seen how it has violently entered the lives of many. Maybe films can’t change stories but maybe watch them. Many have told us about their Palazzine Laf”, says Elio Germano. The reference is to the Palazzina Laf of Ilva in Taranto, where the workers most disliked by the manager were stationed without any duties, the first case of conviction for mobbing in Italy. For the same film, Diodate wins for best original song, My land. The best composers are instead i Subsonic for Adagio.

Among the most intense moments of the ceremony, conducted by Carlo Conti And Alessia Marcuzzi (and Fabrizio Biggio hosting the pre-show and acting as a heckler), after the Gold suit Of Mahmood (very excited), the tribute to George Moroder with Giorgia singing a powerful version of I Feel Love: “The best ever,” says Moroder himself. And then the homage to Milena VukotichDavid for Lifetime Achievement, and the special David to Vincenzo Mollica, who moves everyone with his words: «If blindness left me for a moment, I would like to see my wife and daughter.”

Here are all the winners:

BEST FILM

WINNER: I captain by Matteo Garrone

There’s still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi

The sun of the future by Nanni Moretti

The chimera by Alice Rohrwacher

Kidnapped by Marco Bellocchio

BEST DIRECTOR

WINNER: Matteo Garrone – I captain

Nanni Moretti – The sun of the future

Andrea Di Stefano – The last night of Love

Alice Rohwracher – The chimera

Marco Bellocchio – Kidnapped

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING LEAD

WINNER: Michele Riondino – LAF building

Valerio Mastandrea – There’s still tomorrow

Antonio Albanese – One Hundred Sundays

Pierfrancesco Favino – Commander

Josh O’Connor – The chimera

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING LEAD

WINNER: Paola Cortellesi – There’s still tomorrow

Isabella Ragonese – Like sheep among wolves

Micaela Ramazzotti – Happiness

Linda Caridi – The last night of Love

Barbara Ronchi – Kidnapped

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

WINNER: Emanuela Fanelli – There’s still tomorrow

Romana Maggiora Vergano – There’s still tomorrow

Barbora Bobulova – The sun of the future

Alba Rohrwacher – The chimera

Isabella Rossellini – The chimera

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

WINNER: Elio Germano – LAF building

Adriano Giannini – Slowly

Giorgio Colangeli – There’s still tomorrow

Vinicio Marchioni – There’s still tomorrow

Silvio Orlando – The sun of the future

BEST DIRECTORAL DEBUT

WINNER: Paola Cortellesi – There’s still tomorrow

Giacomo Abbruzzese – Disco Boy

Micaela Ramazzotti – Happiness

Michele Riondino – LAF building

Giuseppe Fiorello – Oddities of love

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

WINNERS: Furio Andreotti, Giulia Calenda and Paola Cortellesi – There’s still tomorrow

Francesca Marciano, Nanni Moretti, Federica Pontremoli and Valia Santella – The sun of the future

Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Ceccherini and Andrea Tagliaferri – I captain

Alice Rohrwacher – The chimera

Maurizio Braucci, Michele Riondino – LAF building

BEST NON-ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

WINNERS: Marco Bellocchio and Susanna Nicchiarelli – Kidnapped

Pietro Marcello, Maurizio Braucci and Maud Ameline – The scarlet sails

Giorgio Diritti and Fredo Valla – Lubo

Emma Dante, Elena Stancanelli and Giorgio Vasta – Mercy

Armando Festa and Sydney Sibilia – Mixed by Erry

BEST DOCUMENTARY

WINNER: Someone over there loves me

Enzo Jannacci – I’m coming too

Me, us and Gaber

Mur

Rome, holy and damned

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

WINNER: Anatomy of a fall

As Bestas

Leaves in the wind

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

BEST PRODUCTION

WINNER: I captain

There’s still tomorrow

Commander

Disco Boy

The chimera

BEST AUTHOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

WINNER: Paolo Carnera – I captain

Davide Leone – There’s still tomorrow

Ferran Paredes Rubio – Commander

Hélène Louvart – The chimera

Francesco Di Giacomo – Kidnapped

BEST COMPOSER

WINNERS: Subsonica – Slowly

Lele Marchitelli – There’s still tomorrow

Franco Piersanti – The sun of the future

Andrea Farri – I captain

Saints Pulvirenti – The last night of Love

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

WINNER: My land by Diodato for Laf building

Slowly by Subsonica

The most beautiful century of my life by Brunori Sas

I captain by Andrea Farri and Seydou Sarr

Mixed by Erry by Liberato

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

WINNER: Kidnapped

There’s still tomorrow

Commander

I captain

The chimera

BEST COSTUMES

WINNER: Kidnapped

There’s still tomorrow

Commander

I captain

The chimera

BEST MAKEUP ARTIST

WINNER: Kidnapped

Slowly

There’s still tomorrow

Commander

I captain

BEST HAIRSTYLE

WINNER: Kidnapped

There’s still tomorrow

Commander

I captain

The chimera

BEST EDITING

WINNER: Marco Spolentini – I captain

Valentina Mariani – There’s still tomorrow

Giogiò Franchini – The last night of Love

Nelly Quettier – The chimera

Francesca Calvelli and Stefano Mariotti – Kidnapped

BEST SOUND

WINNER: I captain

There’s still tomorrow

Commander

The sun of the future

The chimera

BEST VISUAL SPECIAL EFFECTS

WINNERS: I captain

Slowly

Commander

Shark teeth

Kidnapped

BEST SHORT FILM

WINNER: The Meatseller

Asterion

Group photo

As for us

We Should All Be Futurist

DAVID YOUNG

WINNER: There’s still tomorrow

Commander

I captain

The last time we were children

Oddities of love

SPECTATOR DAVID

There’s still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi