David di Donatello for Best Screenplay

The David di Donatello Award for Best Screenplay (Italian: David di Donatello per la migliore sceneggiatura) was a film award presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding screenwriting in a film released in Italy during the year preceding the ceremony.^[1] The award was presented annually from 1975 to 2016, when it was split between the Original and Adapted Screenplay categories.^[1][2][3]

David di Donatello Award for Best Screenplay
Country	Italy
Presented by	Accademia del Cinema Italiano
First award	1975 (for writing in films released during the 1974/1975 film season)
Final award	2016 (for writing in films released during the 2015/2016 film season)
Website	daviddidonatello.it

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

Winners and nominees

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

1970s

Year	Film	Nominees	Ref.
1974/75 (20th)
	Come Home and Meet My Wife	Age & Scarpelli
1975/76 (21st)
	Eye of the Cat	Alberto Bevilacqua and Nino Manfredi
1976/77 (22nd)
	The Bishop's Bedroom	Leo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi
1977/78 (23rd)
	Not awarded
1978/79 (24th)
	Not awarded

1980s

Year	Film	Nominees	Ref.
1979/80 (25th)
	Not awarded
1980/81 (26th)
	Three Brothers	Tonino Guerra and Francesco Rosi
	Passion of Love	Ruggero Maccari and Ettore Scola
	I'm Starting from Three	Massimo Troisi and Anna Pavignano
1981/82 (27th)
	Tales of Ordinary Madness	Sergio Amidei and Marco Ferreri
	Sweet Pea	Bernardino Zapponi
	Talcum Powder	Carlo Verdone and Enrico Oldoini
1982/83 (28th)
	That Night in Varennes	Sergio Amidei and Ettore Scola
	Blow to the Heart	Gianni Amelio and Vincenzo Cerami
	The Night of the Shooting Stars	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
1983/84 (29th)
	And the Ship Sails On	Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
	Le Bal	Ruggero Maccari, Jean-Claude Penchenat, Furio Scarpelli, and Ettore Scola
	Sweet Body of Bianca	Nanni Moretti and Sandro Petraglia
	Where's Picone?	Nanni Loy and Elvio Porta
1984/85 (30th)
	Kaos	Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, and Tonino Guerra
	A Proper Scandal	Suso Cecchi D'Amico
	The Three of Us	Pupi Avati and Antonio Avati
1985/86 (31st)
	Let's Hope It's a Girl	Leo Benvenuti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Piero De Bernardi, Mario Monicelli, and Tullio Pinelli
	Ginger and Fred	Tonino Guerra and Tullio Pinelli
	The Mass Is Ended	Nanni Moretti and Sandro Petraglia
1986/87 (32nd)
	The Family	Ruggero Maccari, Furio Scarpelli, and Ettore Scola
	Christmas Present	Pupi Avati and Giovanni Bruzzi
	A Tale of Love	Francesco Maselli
1987/88 (33rd)
	Io e mia sorella	Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, and Carlo Verdone
	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe
	Dark Eyes	Aleksandr Adabashyan, Nikita Mikhalkov, and Suso Cecchi D'Amico
1988/89 (34th)
	Mignon Has Come to Stay	Francesca Archibugi, Gloria Malatesta, and Claudia Sbarigia
	Compagni di scuola	Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, and Carlo Verdone
	The Legend of the Holy Drinker	Ermanno Olmi and Tullio Kezich

1990s

Year	Film	Nominees	Ref.
1989/90 (35th)
	The Story of Boys & Girls	Pupi Avati
	Dark Illness	Suso Cecchi D'Amico and Tonino Guerra
	Open Doors	Gianni Amelio, Vincenzo Cerami, and Alessandro Sermoneta
	Red Wood Pigeon	Nanni Moretti
	Scugnizzi	Nanni Loy and Elvio Porta
1990/91 (36th)
	To Want to Fly	Maurizio Nichetti and Guido Manuli
	The Yes Man	Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli and Daniele Luchetti
	The House of Smiles	Liliane Betti, Marco Ferreri, and Antonino Marino
	Mediterraneo	Enzo Monteleone
	The Station	Filippo Ascione, Umberto Marino, and Sergio Rubini
1991/92 (37th)
	Damned the Day I Met You	Carlo Verdone and Francesca Marciano
	Parenti serpenti	Carmine Amoroso, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Piero De Bernardi, and Mario Monicelli
	The Invisible Wall	Sandro Petraglia, Andrea Purgatori, and Stefano Rulli
	The Stolen Children	Gianni Amelio, Sandro Petraglia, and Stefano Rulli
1992/93 (38th)
	The Great Pumpkin	Francesca Archibugi
	The Escort	Graziano Diana and Simona Izzo
	Jonah Who Lived in the Whale	Roberto Faenza and Filippo Ottoni
1993/94 (39th)
	For Love, Only for Love	Ugo Chiti and Giovanni Veronesi
	Caro diario	Nanni Moretti
	Let's Not Keep in Touch	Francesca Marciano and Carlo Verdone
1994/95 (40th)
	Nemici d'infanzia	Luigi Magni and Carla Vistarini
	No Skin	Alessandro D'Alatri
	Belle al Bar	Alessandro Benvenuti, Ugo Chiti, and Nicola Zavagli
1995/96 (41st)
	Celluloide	Furio Scarpelli, Ugo Pirro, and Carlo Lizzani
	August Vacation	Francesco Bruni and Paolo Virzì
	The Star Maker	Fabio Rinaudo and Giuseppe Tornatore
1996/97 (42nd)
	Nel profondo paese straniero	Fabio Carpi
	The Cyclone	Leonardo Pieraccioni and Giovanni Veronesi
	The Game Bag	Marco Bechis, Umberto Contarello, Lara Fremder, Gigi Riva, and Maurizio Zaccaro
	Nirvana	Pino Cacucci, Gloria Corica, and Gabriele Salvatores
	The Truce	Sandro Petraglia, Francesco Rosi, and Stefano Rulli
1997/98 (43rd)
	Life Is Beautiful	Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni
	Notes of Love	Mimmo Calopresti
	Ovosodo	Paolo Virzì
1998/99 (44th)
	Not of this World	Giuseppe Piccioni, Gualtiero Rosella, and Lucia Zei
	The Legend of 1900	Giuseppe Tornatore
	Marriages	Cristina Comencini

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees	Ref.
1999/00 (45th)
	Bread and Tulips	Doriana Leondeff and Silvio Soldini
	Canone inverso	Simona Izzo and Ricky Tognazzi
	Olympic Garage	Marco Bechis and Lara Fremder
2000/01 (46th)
	One Hundred Steps	Claudio Fava, Monica Capelli, and Marco Tullio Giordana
	The Last Kiss	Gabriele Muccino
	The Son's Room	Linda Ferri, Nanni Moretti, and Heidrun Schleef
2001/02 (47th)
	The Profession of Arms	Ermanno Olmi
	Burning in the Wind	Doriana Leondeff and Silvio Soldini
	One Man Up	Paolo Sorrentino
2002/03 (48th)
	The Embalmer	Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, and Ugo Chiti
	Casomai	Alessandro D'Alatri and Anna Pavignano
	Facing Windows	Gianni Romoli and Ferzan Özpetek
	It Can't Be All Our Fault	Piero De Bernardi, Pasquale Plastino, Fiamma Satta, and Carlo Verdone
	My Mother's Smile	Marco Bellocchio
	Remember Me, My Love	Gabriele Muccino and Heidrun Schleef
2003/04 (49th)
	The Best of Youth	Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli
	Caterina in the Big City	Francesco Bruni and Paolo Virzì
	Don't Move	Margaret Mazzantini and Sergio Castellitto
	Good Morning, Night	Marco Bellocchio
	What Will Happen to Us	Giovanni Veronesi and Silvio Muccino
2004/05 (50th)
	The Consequences of Love	Paolo Sorrentino
	After Midnight	Davide Ferrario
	Sacred Heart	Gianni Romoli and Ferzan Özpetek
	The Keys to the House	Gianni Amelio, Sandro Petraglia, and Stefano Rulli
	Manual of Love	Ugo Chiti and Giovanni Veronesi
2005/06 (51st)
	Romanzo criminale	Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli, Giancarlo De Cataldo, and Michele Placido
	The Caiman	Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, and Federica Pontremoli
	My Best Enemy	Silvio Muccino, Pasquale Plastino, Silvia Ranfagni, and Carlo Verdone
	Notte prima degli esami	Fausto Brizzi, Massimiliano Bruno, and Marco Martani
	Our Land	Angelo Pasquini, Carla Cavallucci, and Sergio Rubini
2006/07 (52nd)
	My Brother is an Only Child	Daniele Luchetti, Sandro Petraglia, and Stefano Rulli
	Along the Ridge	Linda Ferri, Francesco Giammusso, Kim Rossi Stuart, and Federico Starnone
	Nuovomondo	Emanuele Crialese
	One Hundred Nails	Ermanno Olmi
	The Unknown Woman	Giuseppe Tornatore
2007/08 (53rd)
	The Girl by the Lake	Sandro Petraglia
	Days and Clouds	Doriana Leondeff, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, and Silvio Soldini
	Quiet Chaos	Nanni Moretti, Laura Paolucci, and Francesco Piccolo
	The Right Distance	Doriana Leondeff, Carlo Mazzacurati, Marco Pettenello, and Claudio Piersanti
	The Wind Blows Round	Giorgio Diritti and Fredo Valla
2008/09 (54th)
	Gomorrah	Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni Di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso, and Roberto Saviano
	Il Divo	Paolo Sorrentino
	Many Kisses Later	Fausto Brizzi, Marco Martani, and Massimiliano Bruno
	We Can Do That	Fabio Bonifacci and Giulio Manfredonia
	Your Whole Life Ahead of You	Francesco Bruni and Paolo Virzì

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees	Ref.
2009/10 (55th)
	The First Beautiful Thing	Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo, and Paolo Virzì
	Fort Apache Napoli	Jim Carrington, Andrea Purgatori, Marco Risi, and Maurizio Cerino
	Loose Cannons	Ivan Cotroneo and Ferzan Özpetek
	The Man Who Will Come	Giorgio Diritti, Giovanni Galavotti, and Tania Pedroni
	Vincere	Marco Bellocchio and Daniela Ceselli
2010/11 (56th)
	Noi credevamo	Mario Martone and Giancarlo De Cataldo
	Basilicata Coast to Coast	Rocco Papaleo and Valter Lupo
	The Immature	Paolo Genovese
	La nostra vita	Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli, and Daniele Luchetti
	A Quiet Life	Filippo Gravino, Guido Iuculano, and Claudio Cupellini
2011/12 (57th)
	This Must Be the Place	Paolo Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello
	Caesar Must Die	Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, and Fabio Cavalli
	Easy!	Francesco Bruni
	Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy	Marco Tullio Giordana, Sandro Petraglia, and Stefano Rulli
	We Have a Pope	Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo and Federica Ponteremoli
2012/13 (58th)
	Long Live Freedom	Roberto Andò and Angelo Pasquini
	The Best Offer	Giuseppe Tornatore
	A Five Star Life	Ivan Cotroneo, Francesca Marciano, and Maria Sole Tognazzi
	Me and You	Niccolò Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano, and Bernardo Bertolucci
	Reality	Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone, and Massimo Gaudioso
2013/14 (59th)
	Human Capital	Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni, and Paolo Virzì
	The Great Beauty	Paolo Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello
	I Can Quit Whenever I Want	Valerio Attanasio, Andrea Garello, and Sydney Sibilia
	The Mafia Kills Only in Summer	Michele Astori, Pif, and Marco Martani
	Miele	Francesca Marciano, Valia Santola, and Valeria Golino
2014/15 (60th)
	Black Souls	Francesco Munzi, Fabrizio Ruggirello, and Maurizio Braucci
	Hungry Hearts	Saverio Costanzo
	The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles	Edoardo Leo and Marco Bonini
	Leopardi	Mario Martone and Ippolita Di Majo
	Mia Madre	Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, and Valia Santella
2015/16 (61st)
	Perfect Strangers	Paolo Genovese, Filippo Bologna, Paolo Costella, Paola Mammini, and Rolando Ravello
	Don't Be Bad	Claudio Caligari, Francesca Serafini, and Giordano Meacci
	Tale of Tales	Matteo Garrone, Edoardo Albinati, Ugo Chiti, and Massimo Gaudioso
	They Call Me Jeeg	Nicola Guaglianone and Menotti
	Youth	Paolo Sorrentino

See also

• Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay
• Cinema of Italy