53rd David di Donatello

The 53rd David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 18 April 2008.^[1][2][3]

53rd David di Donatello
Date	18 April 2008
Site	Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome, Italy
Hosted by	Tullio Solenghi
Highlights
Best Picture	The Girl by the Lake
Most awards	The Girl by the Lake (10)
Most nominations	Quiet Chaos (18)
Television coverage
Network	Rai 2
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Winners and nominees

Best Film The Girl by the Lake – directed by Andrea Molaioli Quiet Chaos – directed by Antonello Grimaldi Days and Clouds – directed by Silvio Soldini The Wind Blows Round – directed by Giorgio Diritti The Right Distance – directed by Carlo Mazzacurati	Best Producer Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima – The Girl by the Lake Domenico Procacci – Quiet Chaos Lionello Cerri – Days and Clouds Andrea Occhipinti, Gianluca Arcopinto – Sonetàula Simone Bachini, Mario Chemello, Giorgio Diritti – The Wind Blows Round
Best Director Andrea Molaioli – The Girl by the Lake Cristina Comencini – Black and White Antonello Grimaldi – Quiet Chaos Silvio Soldini – Days and Clouds Carlo Mazzacurati – The Right Distance	Best New Director Andrea Molaioli – The Girl by the Lake Fabrizio Bentivoglio – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! Giorgio Diritti – The Wind Blows Round Marco Martani – Concrete Romance Silvio Muccino – Parlami d'amore
Best Actor Toni Servillo – The Girl by the Lake Antonio Albanese – Days and Clouds Lando Buzzanca – I Viceré Nanni Moretti – Quiet Chaos Kim Rossi Stuart – Piano, solo	Best Actress Margherita Buy – Days and Clouds Anna Bonaiuto – The Girl by the Lake Antonia Liskova – Riparo Valentina Lodovini – The Right Distance Valeria Solarino – Miss F
Best Supporting Actor Alessandro Gassmann – Quiet Chaos Giuseppe Battiston – Days and Clouds Fabrizio Gifuni – The Girl by the Lake Ahmed Hafiene – The Right Distance Umberto Orsini – The Early Bird Catches the Worm	Best Supporting Actress Alba Rohrwacher – Days and Clouds Paola Cortellesi – Piano, solo Carolina Crescentini – Parlami d'amore Isabella Ferrari – Quiet Chaos Valeria Golino – Quiet Chaos Sabrina Impacciatore – Miss F
David di Donatello for Best Screenplay Sandro Petraglia – The Girl by the Lake Nanni Moretti, Laura Paolucci, Francesco Piccolo – Quiet Chaos Doriana Leondeff, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, Silvio Soldini – Days and Clouds Doriana Leondeff, Carlo Mazzacurati, Marco Pettenello, Claudio Piersanti – The Right Distance Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla – The Wind Blows Round	Best Cinematography Ramiro Civita – The Girl by the Lake Luca Bigazzi – The Right Distance Maurizio Calvesi – I Viceré Arnaldo Catinari – Parlami d'amore Alessandro Pesci – Quiet Chaos
Best Production Design Francesco Frigeri – I Viceré Paola Bizzarri – Days and Clouds Giada Calabria – Quiet Chaos Alessandra Mura – The Girl by the Lake Tonino Zera – Hotel Meina	Best Score Paolo Buonvino – Quiet Chaos Lele Marchitelli – Piano, solo Fausto Mesolella – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! Teho Teardo – The Girl by the Lake Giovanni Venosta – Days and Clouds
Best Original Song "L'amore trasparente" from Quiet Chaos – Ivano Fossati "Senza fiato" from Concrete Romance – Paolo Buonvino "Amore fermati" from Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! – Bernardino Zapponi, Gorni Kramer, Italo Terzoli "L'arrivo a Milano" from Milano Palermo – Il ritorno – Pino Donaggio "Tear Down These Houses" from Parlami d'amore – Andrea Guerra, Skin "La rabbia" from La rabbia – Luis Bacalov	Best Editing Giogiò Franchini – The Girl by the Lake Paolo Cottignola – The Right Distance Carlotta Cristiani – Days and Clouds Eduardo Crespo, Giorgio Diritti – The Wind Blows Round Angelo Nicolini – Quiet Chaos
Best Sound Alessandro Zanon – The Girl by the Lake Gaetano Carito – Quiet Chaos François Musy – Days and Clouds Bruno Pupparo – Black and White Remo Ugolinelli – The Right Distance	Best Costumes Milena Canonero – I Viceré Ortensia De Francesco – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! Catia Dottori – Hotel Meina Maurizio Millenotti – Parlami d'amore Silvia Nebiolo, Patrizia Mazzon – Days and Clouds Alessandra Toesca – Quiet Chaos
Best Special Visual Effects Paola Trisoglio, Stefano Marinoni for Visualogie – The Girl by the Lake Proxima – Quiet Chaos Marbea – Concrete Romance Lee Wilson – Mother of Tears Corrado Virgilio, Vincenzo Nisco – Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom	Best Make-up Artist Gino Tamagnini – I Viceré Martinas Cossu – Come tu mi vuoi Gianfranco Mecacci – Quiet Chaos Fernanda Perez – The Girl by the Lake Esmé Sciaroni – Days and Clouds
Best Hairstylist Maria Teresa Corridoni – I Viceré Aldina Governatori – Days and Clouds Giorgio Gregorini – Scusa ma ti chiamo amore Ferdinando Merolla – Hotel Meina Sharim Sabatini – Quiet Chaos	Best Documentary Feature Madri – directed by Barbara Cupisti Centravanti nato – directed by Gianclaudio Guiducci La minaccia – directed by Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino Crossing the Line – directed by Pietro Marcello We Want Roses Too – directed by Alina Marazzi
Best Short Film Uova – directed by Alessandro Celli Adil & Yusuf – directed by Claudio Noce Il bambino di Carla – directed by Emanuela Rossi Ora che Marlene – directed by Giovanna Nazarena Silvestri Tramondo – directed by Giacomo Agnetti, Davide Bazzali	Best European Film Irina Palm – directed by Sam Garbarski 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – directed by Cristian Mungiu The Secret of the Grain – directed by Abdellatif Kechiche Elizabeth: The Golden Age – directed by Shekhar Kapur The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – directed by Julian Schnabel
Best Foreign Film No Country for Old Men – directed by Coen brothers Across the Universe – directed by Julie Taymor Into the Wild – directed by Sean Penn In the Valley of Elah – directed by Paul Haggis There Will Be Blood – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson	David Youth Award Parlami d'amore – directed by Silvio Muccino The Right Distance – directed by Carlo Mazzacurati Lessons in Chocolate – directed by Claudio Cupellini Piano, solo – directed by Riccardo Milani I Viceré – directed by Roberto Faenza
Special David Awards Carlo Verdone Luigi Magni Gabriele Muccino