David Donatello 2024, Paola Cortellesi and There’s Still Tomorrow dominate the awards

One award after another for There’s Still Tomorrow, Paola Cortellesi’s film, at the 2024 edition of the David di Donatello. The director and actress opened the evening by winning the spectator’s David for the record attendance in the cinema, with 5.5 million spectators, and reached the top with the award for best leading actress.

Emanuela Fanelli was awarded best supporting actress. “My biggest thanks go to Paola Cortellesi – he said – for giving me a small piece of something so big that it became your film. And it became so for a very simple reason: because you made it. I dedicate this award to my family”.

The David for the original screenplay also arrivedwhich Cortellesi shares with Furio Andreotti and Giulia Calenda, as well as the one for the best directorial debut.

Matteo Garrone won the award for best director with The Captain. Paolo Carnera was awarded for Best Photography. Io Capitano also won the category for best producer and in those for visual effects and sound.

Michele Riondino he won the award for best leading actor for his performance in Laf building. In the same movie, Elio Germano he earned the award for best supporting actor of the 69th edition.

“Going around Italy we understood that this is a very current film – said the actor receiving the award after calling the director Michele Riondino on stage – And we hope that this film arrives, which talks about work, something which seems a little forgotten. Taranto is a wonderful city raped by profit”, he then added.

‘Rapito’ by Marco Bellocchio won the award for best scenography. ‘Kidnapped’ also won recognition for best costume design and best adapted screenplay. “My age makes me moderately satisfied, if I hadn’t been awarded I would have been moderately dissatisfied – Bellocchio jokes – I just hope to have a good mind to make other films for a few more years.” For ‘Kidnapped’, you also get awards for best makeup and best hairstyle.

Diodato won the award for best original song with ‘La mia terra’. “I would like to dedicate it to my land and to Taranto, my city, a city that suffers but that I invite everyone to come and see how beautiful it is despite this”, said the Salento singer on receiving the award. Subsonica received the award for best composer for the soundtrack of ‘Adagio’.

“When I was told that I would receive this prestigious award, I thought of everything I could have said to express this great emotion. And the thing that immediately came to me spontaneously was gratitude: not only towards the cinema, which has done me this honor but precisely towards life, which sometimes gives us such exceptional gifts”. With these words Milena Vukotic received the lifetime achievement award.

An award that the actress wanted to dedicate to her parents: “To my mother and father, who since I was little have always made my dream come true, that of one day being able to express myself both with words and with dance – she said Vukotic- And I also wanted to dedicate it to Alfredo Baldi, who is my husband, and who is also a cinema historian, and every day or almost we share a great love for cinema. And finally I can’t help but turn to mine thought of Federico who in this very study 5 made Italian cinema immortal”.

The audience stood up to greet Giorgio Moroder with a standing ovation, the three-time Academy Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. The great composer of soundtracks such as ‘Top Gun’, ‘Flashdance’ is invited to choose one of the many songs he has written in his long career. ‘”Take my breath away’ (soundtrack of ‘Top Gun’, ed. ,)”, says the master. After receiving the award, Giorgia goes on stage to perform one of Moroder’s songs, ‘I feel love’, brought to success by Donna Summer.

A standing ovation from the audience at Cinecittà theater 5 greeted him Vincenzo Mollica, winner of the Special Prize. The great, emotional journalist thanked the public, first recalling Fellini (“He was the age of the person he spoke to, he was extraordinary”), and then Lello Bersani (“He gave me his agenda: I would like you to take my place, he told me”).

And about the thing that moved him most during the interviews of his life, Mollica had no doubts: “I wake up with curiosity, without curiosity it would be a mess”, he said to applause. And again: “You have to know how to listen.” “If blindness left you for a moment, what would you like to see”? Carlo Conti asked him. “My wife and my daughter”, Mollica said emotionally. The journalist then thanked, among others, TG1, Rai and Lello Bersani, “who taught me, with education, elegance and grace, many things that I will never be able to forget”.