Bellucci received the lifetime achievement award, Cortellesi and Garrone among the finalists

The artistic directors Claudio Lavanga and Alina Trabattoni: “This is the edition of Italian cinema for women”

ROME – There is just under a month left until the eagerly awaited ceremony Golden Globethe recognition given byAssociation of the Foreign Press in Italywhich returns to reward the excellence of Italian cinema. On July 3, the gardens of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo will be the backdrop for the awards ceremony, which will see some of the most significant names in Italian cinema in the audience. They will be awarded by a panel composed of correspondents and journalists for the foreign press from Italy, led by the artistic directors Claudio Lavanga and Alina Trabattoni “This is the edition of Italian female cinema. Monica Bellucci will receive the well-deserved Globo for Lifetime Achievement, while Paola Cortellesi, Alice Rohrwacher, Micaela Ramazzotti and Giovanna Mezzogiorno confirm themselves among the most appreciated artists also by the Foreign Press, with various nominations. There are also many surprises: like Margherita Vicario competing for Best Film, First Feature, Soundtrack and Cinematography, and the debutant Rebecca Antonaci, for Best Actress and Promising Young Woman”, comment Lavanga and Trabattoni.

Chosen from dozens of films by over 40 foreign correspondents from all over the world, the three finalists are competing for the Best Film award: Glory! by Margherita Vicario, There’s Still Tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi And I Captain by Matteo Garronethe latter also competing for the Best Director category together with The Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher. For the Best First Film we find again Glory! next to Happiness by Micaela Ramazzotti And Palazzina Laf by Michele Riondino. In the Best Actress category, they compete for the statuette Rebecca Antonaci for Finally the dawn, Micaela Ramazzotti in Happiness And Federica Rosellini protagonist of Confidenza. Male faces are instead Antonio Albanese for One Hundred Sundays, Pierfrancesco Favino with the film Commander and Elio Germano for Confidenza. He joins them the Promising Young Woman Award which this year sees candidates Rebecca Antonaci, Andrea Fuorto for Patagonia And Simone Zambelli for his performance in Misericordia.

In addition to Bellucci, among the special awards there is also the Golden Globe Italians in the World which goes to Maurizio Lombardi, a recognition dedicated to Italians who stand out for their artistic commitment in the world. The Best Screenplay Award sees nominees Daniele Luchetti and Francesco Piccolo authors of Confidenza, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Ceccherini and Andrea Tagliaferri for Io Capitano and Edoardo De Angelis and Sandro Veronesi for Commander; while for the Best Photography section they will compete for the Golden Globe Angelo Sorrentino for Diabolik, who are you?, Gianluca Palma for Gloria! and Paolo Carnera in Adagio. The Best Comedy will be chosen from Romeo is Juliet by Giovanni Veronesi, 50 km per hour Fabio De Luigi And Six brothers by Simone Godano; while in the Best TV Series category we find For Elisa – The Claps case by Marco Pontecorvo, Supersex by Matteo Rovere, Francesco Carrozzini and Francesca Mazzoleni And A Love by Francesco Lagi.

For the Best Soundtrack Award the jury has selected Margherita Vicario and Davide Pavanello authors of the music for Gloria!, Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi for Diabolik, who are you? hey Subsonica for Adagio. Closing the series of awards is the Documentaries section Can I come in? An Ode To Naples by Trudie Styler, Bangarang by Giulio Mastromauro And Rome, holy and damned by Roberto D’Agostino, Marco Giusti and Daniele Ciprì; and finally that of the shorts with The last poem by Leonardo Petrillo, In the surname I chose of Lorenzo Sepalone And Unfitting by director Giovanna Mezzogiorno. “It is with great pride that we follow this period of renaissance of the seventh art – comments Alina Trabattoni, co-artistic director of the award – The Italian film industry is in fact reaching the levels of the golden period and this thanks to a new generation of directors , innovative actors and screenwriters. Their films, characterized by emotional depth and aesthetic experimentation, are conquering international audiences and critics, repositioning this country as a leading cultural power.”

The Cinema 2024 Committee is made up of Claudio Lavanga (Artistic Director) NBC NEWS, USA; Alina Trabattoni (Artistic Director) TRT World; Maarten van Aalderen, De Telegraaf, Netherlands; Patricia Mayorga Marcos, El Mercurio, Chile; Vera Naydenova (TV Series Manager) BTV, Bulgaria; Praxilla Trabattoni (Head of Documentary Section) freelance correspondent, Switzerland; Vera Shcherbakova (Head of Short Film Section) ITAR-TASS, Russia; Sofya Lipenkova, freelance correspondent, Russia (Social Media Manager Golden Globe); Alba Kepi, RTV Ora News, Albania; and Constanze Templin freelance journalist, Germany (Head of Feature Film Section).