06/07/2023 - The director wins the awards for Best Film, with Kidnapped, and Best TV Series, for Esterno notte; also awarded were Mia, Romantic Girls, and Strangeness

Marco Bellocchio and Fabrizio Gifuni on stage at the 63rd Italian Golden Globes

Marco Bellocchio repeats his double win for Best Film and Best TV Series at the recent Nastri d’argento (read the news), winning the same two awards from foreign journalists based in Italy. During the ceremony held yesterday evening at the German Academy in Rome, the director from Piacenza collected, to great applause, his Italian Golden Globe for Best Film, for Kidnapped [+see also:
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The 63rd edition of the annual award ceremony, with prizes handed out by the Italian Foreign Press Association, also turned its spotlight on Mia [+see also:
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The post-pandemic Italian blockbuster Strangeness [+see also:
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Also present at the awards ceremony at Villa Massimo was Hollywood star John Malkovich, who received from the hands of actor Maurizio Lombardi (who starred in Paolo Sorrentino’s The New Pope [+see also:
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The winners:

Best Film
Kidnapped [+see also:
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Best Director
Roberto Andò - Strangeness [+see also:
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Best TV Series
Exterior Night [+see also:
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Best Feature Debut
Fireworks [+see also:
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Best Comedy
Romantic Girls [+see also:
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Best Documentary
Gianni Agnelli, in arte l’Avvocato - Emanuele Imbucci

Best Actor
Edoardo Leo - Mia [+see also:
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Best Actress
Pilar Fogliati - Romantic Girls

Best Screenplay
Ivano De Matteo, Valentina Ferlan - Mia

Best Cinematography
Michele D’Attanasio - Caravaggio's Shadow [+see also:
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Best Score
Colapesce, Dimartino - La primavera della mia vita [+see also:
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Best Short Film
Grazie Michele - Rosario Errico

Special Jury Prize
The Last Night of Amore [+see also:
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Golden Globe for Most Promising Actor
Saul Nanni - Brado [+see also:
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Career Award
Francesco Nuti

Grand Prize from the Foreign Pres
John Malkovich

(Translated from Italian)