David di Donatello for Best Film

The David di Donatello Award for Best Film (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior film) is one of the David di Donatello awards presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI). The award recognizes the most outstanding Italian film theatrically released in Italy during the year preceding the ceremony.^[1][2] The award was first given in 1970, and became competitive in 1981.^[3]

David di Donatello Award for Best Film
Awarded for	Best Film of the Year
Country	Italy
Presented by	Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI)
First award	1970; 55 years ago (1970) (for the films released during the 1969/1970 film season)
Most recent winner	Io capitano (2024)
Website	daviddidonatello.it

Nominees and winners are selected via runoff voting by all the members of the Accademia.^[2][4]

Winners and nominees

Below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by other nominees.^[1]

1970s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
1969/70 (15th)
	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Marina Cicogna and Daniele Senatore
	Metello	Gianni Hecht Lucari
1970/71 (16th)
	The Conformist	Maurizio Lodi-Fè
	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Artur Brauner, Arthur Cohn, and Gianni Hecht Lucari
	Waterloo	Dino De Laurentiis
1971/72 (17th)
	This Kind of Love	Mario Cecchi Gori
	The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1972/73 (18th)
	Alfredo, Alfredo	Guglielmo Colonna
	Ludwig	Ugo Santalucia and Dieter Geissler
1973/74 (19th)
	Amarcord	Franco Cristaldi
	Bread and Chocolate	Maurizio Lodi-Fè
1974/75 (20th)
	Conversation Piece	Giovanni Bertolucci
	Drama of the Rich	Giovanni Di Clemente
1975/76 (21st)
	Illustrious Corpses	Alberto Grimaldi
1976/77 (22nd)
	An Average Little Man	Aurelio De Laurentiis and Luigi De Laurentiis
	The Desert of the Tartars	Michelle de Broca, Bahman Farmanara, Mario Gallo, Enzo Giulioli, Jacques Perrin, and Giorgio Silvagni
1977/78 (23rd)
	In the Name of the Pope King	Franco Committeri
	I Am the Law	Gianni Hecht Lucari
1978/79 (24th)
	Christ Stopped at Eboli	Nicola Carraro and Franco Cristaldi
	To Forget Venice	Franco Brusati and Claudio Grassetti
	The Tree of Wooden Clogs

1980s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
1980/81 (26th)
	I'm Starting from Three	Mauro Berardi
	Passion of Love	Franco Committeri
	Three Brothers	Giorgio Nocella and Antonio Macrì
1981/82 (27th)
	Talcum Powder	Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori
	Il marchese del Grillo	Renzo Rossellini
	Tales of Ordinary Madness	Jacqueline Ferreri
1982/83 (28th)
	The Night of the Shooting Stars	Giuliani G. De Negri
	Blow to the Heart	Enzo Porcelli
	That Night in Varennes	Renzo Rossellini
1983/84 (29th)
	And the Ship Sails On	Franco Cristaldi
	Le Bal	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina and Giorgio Silvagni
	Where's Picone?	Antonio Avati and Gianni Minervini
1984/85 (30th)
	Carmen	Marcel Dassault, Patrice Ledoux, and Alain Poiré
	Kaos	Giuliani G. De Negri
	A Proper Scandal	Fulvio Lucisano
1985/86 (31st)
	Let's Hope It's a Girl	Giovanni Di Clemente
	Ginger and Fred	Alberto Grimaldi and Heinz Bibo
	The Mass Is Ended	Achille Manzotti
1986/87 (32nd)
	The Family	Franco Committeri
	Christmas Present	Antonio Avati
	A Tale of Love	Carlo Tuzii
1987/88 (33rd)
	The Last Emperor§	Jeremy Thomas
	Dark Eyes	Carlo Cucchi and Silvia D'Amico Bendicò
	Intervista	Ibrahim Moussa
1988/89 (34th)
	The Legend of the Holy Drinker	Roberto Cicutto and Vincenzo Di Leo
	Cinema Paradiso	Franco Cristaldi and Giovanna Romagnoli
	Francesco	Roberta Cadringher, Giulio Scanni, and Jost Steinbruchel

1990s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
1989/90 (35th)
	Open Doors	Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
	Dark Illness	Giovanni Di Clemente
	Red Wood Pigeon	Nella Banfi, Angelo Barbagallo, and Nanni Moretti
	The Story of Boys & Girls	Antonio Avati, Pupi Avati, Emanuela Guzzardi, Giorgio Leopardi, and Gianfranco Piccioli
	The Voice of the Moon	Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori
1990/91 (36th)
	Mediterraneo	Silvio Berlusconi, Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and Gianni Minervini
	Towards Evening	Guido De Laurentiis and Leo Pescarolo
	The House of Smiles	Augusto Caminito and Giovanna Romagnoli
	The Station	Domenico Procacci
	The Yes Man	Angelo Barbagallo and Nanni Moretti
1991/92 (37th)
	The Stolen Children	Stefano Mufanò and Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
	Damned the Day I Met You	Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori
	The Invisible Wall	Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and Maurizio Tedesco
1992/93 (38th)
	The Great Pumpkin	Guido De Laurentiis, Fulvio Lucisano, and Leo Pescarolo
	The Escort	Claudio Bonivento
	Jonah Who Lived in the Whale	Gianna Bellavia, Elda Ferri, Áron Sipos, and Dénes Szekeres
1993/94 (39th)
	Caro diario	Nella Banfi, Angelo Barbagallo, and Nanni Moretti
	For Love, Only for Love	Aurelio De Laurentiis
	Let's Not Keep in Touch	Vittorio Cecchi Gori
1994/95 (40th)
	La scuola	Vittorio Cecchi Gori
	Nasty Love	Angelo Curti, Andrea Occhipinti, and Kermit Smith
	Il Postino: The Postman*	Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and Gaetano Daniele
1995/96 (41st)
	August Vacation	Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori
	Celluloide	Pio Angeletti and Adriano De Micheli
	The Star Maker	Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori
	Stealing Beauty	Jeremy Thomas
1996/97 (42nd)
	The Truce	Véra Belmont, Guido De Laurentiis, and Leo Pescarolo
	The Cyclone	Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori
	Marianna Ucrìa	Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Elda Ferri, and Rita Cecchi Gori
	My Generation	Maurizio Tini
	Nirvana	Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Rita Cecchi Gori, and Maurizio Totti
1997/98 (43rd)
	Life Is Beautiful*	Gianluigi Braschi and Elda Ferri
	Ovosodo	Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori
	April	Angelo Barbagallo and Nanni Moretti
1998/99 (44th)
	Not of this World	Lionello Cerri
	Besieged	Massimo Cortesi
	The Legend of 1900	Francesco Tornatore

2000s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
1999/00 (45th)
	Bread and Tulips	Daniele Maggioni
	Canone inverso	Vittorio Cecchi Gori
	Olympic Garage	Marco Bechis, Amedeo Pagani, and Enrique Piñeyro
2000/01 (46th)
	The Son's Room	Angelo Barbagallo, Federico Fabrizio, Vincenzo Galluzzo, Lorenzo Luccarini, and Nanni Moretti
	The Last Kiss	Domenico Procacci
	One Hundred Steps	Fabrizio Mosca
2001/02 (47th)
	The Profession of Arms	Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini
	Burning in the Wind	Lionello Cerri and Luigi Musini
	Light of My Eyes	Lionello Cerri
2002/03 (48th)
	Facing Windows	Tilde Corsi and Gianni Romoli
	The Embalmer	Domenico Procacci
	My Mother's Smile	Marco Bellocchio and Sergio Pelone
	Remember Me, My Love	Domenico Procacci
	Respiro	Domenico Procacci
2003/04 (49th)
	The Best of Youth	Angelo Barbagallo and Donatella Botti
	Don't Move	Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi
	Good Morning, Night	Marco Bellocchio and Sergio Pelone
	I'm Not Scared	Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, Maurizio Totti, and Riccardo Tozzi
	What Will Happen to Us?	Aurelio De Laurentiis
2004/05 (50th)
	The Consequences of Love	Francesca Cima, Angelo Curti, Nicola Giuliano, and Domenico Procacci
	A Children's Story	Rosario Rinaldo
	Sacred Heart	Tilde Corsi and Gianni Romoli
	The Keys to the House	Enzo Porcelli
	Manual of Love	Aurelio De Laurentiis
2005/06 (51st)
	The Caiman	Angelo Barbagallo and Nanni Moretti
	My Best Enemy	Aurelio De Laurentiis
	Notte prima degli esami	Federica Lucisano, Fulvio Lucisano, and Giannandrea Pecorelli
	Our Land	Domenico Procacci
	Romanzo criminale
2006/07 (52nd)
	The Unknown Woman
	Along the Ridge	Carlo Degli Esposti, Giorgio Magliulo, and Andrea Costantini
	My Brother is an Only Child	Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi
	Nuovomondo	Alexandre Mallet-Guy and Fabrizio Mosca
	One Hundred Nails	Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini
2007/08 (53rd)
	The Girl by the Lake	Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano
	Days and Clouds	Lionello Cerri
	Quiet Chaos	Domenico Procacci
	The Right Distance	Domenico Procacci
	The Wind Blows Round	Simone Bachini, Mario Chemello, Giorgio Diritti, and Roberto Passuti
2008/09 (54th)
	Gomorrah	Domenico Procacci
	Il Divo	Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, and Andrea Occhipinti
	Many Kisses Later	Federica Lucisano and Fulvio Lucisano
	We Can Do That	Andrea Rizzoli Jr. and Angelo Rizzoli Jr.
	Your Whole Life Ahead of You	Paolo Virzì

2010s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
2009/10 (55th)
	The Man Who Will Come	Simone Bachini and Giorgio Diritti
	Baarìa	Tarak Ben Ammar
	The First Beautiful Thing	Marco Cohen, Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Carlo Virzì, and Paolo Virzì
	Loose Cannons	Domenico Procacci
	Vincere	Mario Gianani
2010/11 (56th)
	Noi credevamo	Conchita Airoldi, Carlo Degli Esposti, and Giorgio Magliulo
	Basilicata Coast to Coast	Isabella Cocuzza, Mark Lombardo, Elisabetta Olmi, and Arturo Paglia
	Benvenuti al Sud	Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, Francesca Longardi, and Riccardo Tozzi
	La nostra vita	Marco Chimenz, Fabio Conversi, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi
	A Quiet Life	Fabrizio Mosca and Christer von Lindequist
2011/12 (57th)
	Caesar Must Die	Grazia Volpi
	Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy	Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi
	Terraferma	Marco Chimenz, Fabio Conversi, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi
	This Must Be the Place	Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, and Andrea Occhipinti
	We Have a Pope	Jean Labadie, Nanni Moretti, and Domenico Procacci
2012/13 (58th)
	The Best Offer	Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia
	Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood	Domenico Procacci
	Long Live Freedom	Angelo Barbagallo
	Me and You	Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli
	Siberian Education	Marco Chimenz, Gina Gardini, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi
2013/14 (59th)
	Human Capital	Marco Cohen and Benedetto Habib
	The Chair of Happiness	Angelo Barbagallo
	The Great Beauty	Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano
	I Can Quit Whenever I Want	Andrea Paris, Domenico Procacci, and Matteo Rovere
	The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer	Fausto Brizzi, Mario Gianani, and Lorenzo Mieli
2014/15 (60th)
	Black Souls	Luigi Musini and Olivia Musini
	Greenery Will Bloom Again	Luigi Musini and Elisabetta Olmi
	Hungry Hearts	Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli
	Leopardi	Carlo Degli Esposti, Margherita Murolo, and Nicola Serra
	Mia madre	Nanni Moretti and Domenico Procacci
2015/16 (61st)
	Perfect Strangers	Marco Belardi
	Don't Be Bad	Paolo Bogna, Simone Isola, and Valerio Mastandrea
	Fire at Sea	Roberto Cicutto, Paolo Del Brocco, Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou, Donatella Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, and Martine Saada
	Tale of Tales	Matteo Garrone, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jean Labadie, and Jeremy Thomas
	Youth	Carlotta Calori, Francesca Cima, and Nicola Giuliano
2016 (62nd)
	Like Crazy	Marco Belardi
	Fiore	Beppe Caschetto and Rita Rognoni
	Indivisible	Attilio De Razza e Pierpaolo Verga
	Italian Race	Domenico Procacci
	Sweet Dreams	Beppe Caschetto
2017 (63rd)
	Love and Bullets	Carlo Macchitella and Manetti Bros.
	A Ciambra	Paolo Carpignano, Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Gwyn Sannia, Marc Schmidheiny, and Rodrigo Teixeira
	Cinderella the Cat	Luciano Stella and Maria Carolina Terzi
	Nico, 1988	Valérie Bournonville, Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, and Joseph Rouschop
	Tenderness	Agostino Saccá, Giuseppe Saccá, and Maria Grazia Saccá
2018 (64th)
	Dogman	Paolo Del Brocco, Matteo Garrone, Jean Labadie, and Jeremy Thomas
	Call Me By Your Name*	Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, James Ivory, Marco Morabito, Howard Rosenman, Peter Spears, and Rodrigo Teixeira
	Euphoria	Viola Prestieri
	Happy as Lazzaro	Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Alexandra Henochsberg, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, and Michael Weber
	On My Skin	Luigi Musini, Olivia Musini, and Andrea Occhipinti
2019 (65th)
	The Traitor	IBC Movie, Kavac Film, and Rai Cinema
	Martin Eden	Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, and Rai Cinema
	Pinocchio	Archimede, Rai Cinema, and Le Pacte
	Piranhas	Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra
	The First King: Birth of an Empire	Groenlandia, Gapbusters, Rai Cinema and Roman Citizen

2020s

Year	Film	Producer(s)	Ref.
2020 (66th)
	Hidden Away	Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra
	Bad Tales	Agostino Saccà, Giuseppe Saccà, Rai Cinema
	Hammamet	Agostino Saccà, Maria Grazia Saccà
	The Macaluso Sisters	Marica Stocchi, Marta Donzelli
	Miss Marx
2021 (67th)
	The Hand of God
	Ennio
	Freaks Out
	The Inner Cage
	The King of Laughter
2022 (68th)
	The Eight Mountains
	Exterior Night
	Lord of the Ants
	Nostalgia
	Strangeness
2023 (69th)
	Io capitano
	A Brighter Tomorrow
	La chimera
	Kidnapped
	There's Still Tomorrow
2024 (70th)
	Vermiglio
	Parthenope
	The Art of Joy
	The Great Ambition
	The Time It Takes

See also

• Nastro d'Argento
• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (list of submissions)
• Cinema of Italy