04/07/2011

We Have a Pope [+see also:
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film profile] (which has already won seven David di Donatello Awards, including best film and Nastro of the Year 2011), which received the Foreign Press Grand Prix .

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Unexpected, however, were the Globes for Best Director and Best Screenplay which went to Emidio Greco for Notizie dagli scavi [+see also:
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The foreign journalists’ choice of Best Debut Feature went to 20 Cigarettes [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)