11/06/2014 - The Great Beauty given nine prizes total, Virizi’s film receives seven. Best newcomer is Pif with La mafia uccide solo d’estate, Song’e Napule awarded for its music

Human Capital [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Virzì
film profile] by Paolo Virzì and The Great Beauty [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Sorrentino
film profile] by Paolo Sorrentino literally triumphed at the 58^th David di Donatello awards, leaving very little for the other candidates. The award ceremony took place last night on June 10 in Rome. Best director went to Sorrentino for The Great Beauty, which won a total of nine awards – including best actor (Toni Servillo), producer and photography. Best film went to Human Capital, which won seven David awards including best screenplay, best actress (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), best supporting actor and actress (Fabrizio Gifuni and Valeria Golino), and best editing.

Pierfrancesco Diliberto was the best newcomer director with La mafia uccide solo d’estate [+see also:
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interview: Pierfrancesco Diliberto
film profile], which also won the Davis for young people. Absent from the awards were Fasten Your Seatbelts [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ferzan Ozpetek
film profile] by Ferzan Ozpetek and comedy Smetto quando voglio [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sydney Sibilia
film profile] by Sydney Sibilia, which respectively received eleven and twelve nominations. The other phenomenon comedy of the year, Song’e Napule [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by the Manetti Bros., was given two awards: best music (Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi) and best original song (“A’ verità”). Best European Union film went to Philomena [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Stephen Frears
film profile] by Stephen Frears, best documentary to Stop The Pounding Heart [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Roberto Minervini. Special awards went to Sophia Loren, Carlo Mazzacurati, Marco Bellocchio and Andrea Occhipinti (Lucky Red).

List of David di Donatello 2014 awards:

BEST FILM 
Human Capital by Paolo Virzì

BEST DIRECTOR
Paolo Sorrentino for The Great Beauty

BEST NEWCOMER DIRECTOR
Pierfrancesco Diliberto for La mafia uccide solo d’estate

BEST SCREENPLAY
Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni, Paolo Virzì for Human Capital

BEST PRODUCER
Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima for Indigo Film for The Great Beauty

BEST ACTRESS
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for Human Capital

BEST ACTOR
Toni Servillo for The Great Beauty

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Valeria Golino for Human Capital

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Fabrizio Gifuni for Human Capital 

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
Luca Bigazzi for The Great Beauty

BEST MUSIC
Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi for Song’e Napule

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“A’ verità” by Francesco Liccardo, Rosario Castagnola, text by Francesco Liccardo, Sarah Tartuffo, Alessandro Garofalo, sung Franco Ricciardi for Song’e Napule

BEST SCREENPLAY
Stefania Cella for The Great Beauty

BEST COSTUMES
Daniela Ciancio for The Great Beauty

BEST MAKE-UP
Maurizio Silvi for The Great Beauty 

BEST HAIR STYLIST
Aldo Signoretti for The Great Beauty

BEST EDITING
Cecilia Zanuso for Human Capital

BEST SOUND
Roberto Mozzarelli for Human Capital

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Rodolfo Migliari and Luca Della Grotta for CHROMATICA for The Great Beauty

BEST EUROPEAN UNION FILM
Philomena by Stephen Frears (Lucky Red)

BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Grand Budapest Hotel [+see also:
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making of
film profile] by Wes Anderson (20th Century Fox) 

BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
Stop The Pounding Heart – Trilogia Del Texas, Atto III by Roberto Minervini 

BEST SHORT
37°4 S by Adriano Valerio

YOUNG PEOPLE’S DAVID
La mafia uccide solo d’estate by Pierfrancesco Diliberto

SPECIAL PRIZES
Sophia Loren
Carlo Mazzacurati
Marco Bellocchio
Andrea Occhipinti

(Translated from Italian)