13/05/2003 - Nine nominations each for Ricordati di me and La finestra di fronte, seven for Gabriele Salvatores and six for Roberta Torre. The winners announced in Taormina on 14 June

This year’s edition of the Silver Ribbons will be very much a two-horse race between Ricordati di me [+see also:
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film profile] and La finestra di fronte [+see also:
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interview: Ferzan Ozpetek
film profile], which scored nine nominations each. The winners of the awards that are presented by Italian film journalists’ guild, SNGCI will be announced on Saturday 14 June during the closing ceremony of the Taormina BNL Film Fest.
Gabriele Salvatores’ Io non ho paura [+see also:
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interview: Gabriele Salvatores
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film profile] with six, and five apiece for Matteo Garrone’s The Embalmer, Daniele Vicari’s Velocità massima and Enzo Monteleone’s war epic El Alamein. Michele Placido’s Un viaggio chiamato amore [+see also:
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interview: Roberto Faenza
film profile] got four.
Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio, Pupi Avati’s Il cuore altrove, Roberto Vicentini Orgnani’s Ilaria Alpi, il più crudele dei giorni, Carlo Verdone’s Ma che colpa abbiamo noi [+see also:
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film profile], Francesco Patierno’s Pater familias [+see also:
interview: Francesco Patierno
film profile], Mimmo Calopresti’s La felicità non costa niente and Sergio Rubini’s L’anima gemella [+see also:
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film profile] were each nominated in three categories.
The quality and number of films competing this year resulted in the organisers deciding to bend the rules: instead of the traditional five nominations in the best film, storyline, newcomer and screenplay categories, there are now six.

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