53rd David di Donatello

53rd David di Donatello
53rd David di Donatello
Date	18 April 2008
Site	Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome, Italy
Hosted by	Tullio Solenghi
Highlights
Best Picture	The Girl by the Lake
Most awards	The Girl by the Lake (10)
Most nominations	Quiet Chaos (18)
Television coverage
Network	Rai 2
	← 52nd; David di Donatello; 54th →;

The 53rd David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 18 April 2008.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

The Girl by the Lake – directed by Andrea Molaioli
Quiet Chaos – directed by Antonello Grimaldi
Days and Clouds – directed by Silvio Soldini
The Wind Blows Round – directed by Giorgio Diritti
The Right Distance – directed by Carlo Mazzacurati

Best Producer

Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima – The Girl by the Lake
Domenico Procacci – Quiet Chaos
Lionello Cerri – Days and Clouds
Andrea Occhipinti, Gianluca Arcopinto – Sonetàula
Simone Bachini, Mario Chemello, Giorgio Diritti – The Wind Blows Round

Best Director

Andrea Molaioli – The Girl by the Lake
Cristina Comencini – Black and White
Antonello Grimaldi – Quiet Chaos
Silvio Soldini – Days and Clouds
Carlo Mazzacurati – The Right Distance

Best New Director

Andrea Molaioli – The Girl by the Lake
Fabrizio Bentivoglio – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
Giorgio Diritti – The Wind Blows Round
Marco Martani – Concrete Romance
Silvio Muccino – Parlami d'amore

Best Actor

Toni Servillo – The Girl by the Lake
Antonio Albanese – Days and Clouds
Lando Buzzanca – I Viceré
Nanni Moretti – Quiet Chaos
Kim Rossi Stuart – Piano, solo

Best Actress

Margherita Buy – Days and Clouds
Anna Bonaiuto – The Girl by the Lake
Antonia Liskova – Riparo
Valentina Lodovini – The Right Distance
Valeria Solarino – Miss F

Best Supporting Actor

Alessandro Gassmann – Quiet Chaos
Giuseppe Battiston – Days and Clouds
Fabrizio Gifuni – The Girl by the Lake
Ahmed Hafiene – The Right Distance
Umberto Orsini – The Early Bird Catches the Worm

Best Supporting Actress

Alba Rohrwacher – Days and Clouds
Paola Cortellesi – Piano, solo
Carolina Crescentini – Parlami d'amore
Isabella Ferrari – Quiet Chaos
Valeria Golino – Quiet Chaos
Sabrina Impacciatore – Miss F

David di Donatello for Best Screenplay

Sandro Petraglia – The Girl by the Lake
Nanni Moretti, Laura Paolucci, Francesco Piccolo – Quiet Chaos
Doriana Leondeff, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli, Silvio Soldini – Days and Clouds
Doriana Leondeff, Carlo Mazzacurati, Marco Pettenello, Claudio Piersanti – The Right Distance
Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla – The Wind Blows Round

Best Cinematography

Ramiro Civita – The Girl by the Lake
Luca Bigazzi – The Right Distance
Maurizio Calvesi – I Viceré
Arnaldo Catinari – Parlami d'amore
Alessandro Pesci – Quiet Chaos

Best Sets and Decorations

Francesco Frigeri – I Viceré
Paola Bizzarri – Days and Clouds
Giada Calabria – Quiet Chaos
Alessandra Mura – The Girl by the Lake
Tonino Zera – Hotel Meina

Best Score

Paolo Buonvino – Quiet Chaos
Lele Marchitelli – Piano, solo
Fausto Mesolella – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
Teho Teardo – The Girl by the Lake
Giovanni Venosta – Days and Clouds

Best Original Song

"L'amore trasparente" from Quiet Chaos – Ivano Fossati
"Senza fiato" from Concrete Romance – Paolo Buonvino
"Amore fermati" from Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny! – Bernardino Zapponi, Gorni Kramer, Italo Terzoli
"L'arrivo a Milano" from Milano Palermo – Il ritorno – Pino Donaggio
"Tear Down These Houses" from Parlami d'amore – Andrea Guerra, Skin
"La rabbia" from La rabbia – Luis Bacalov

Best Editing

Giogiò Franchini – The Girl by the Lake
Paolo Cottignola – The Right Distance
Carlotta Cristiani – Days and Clouds
Eduardo Crespo, Giorgio Diritti – The Wind Blows Round
Angelo Nicolini – Quiet Chaos

Best Sound

Alessandro Zanon – The Girl by the Lake
Gaetano Carito – Quiet Chaos
François Musy – Days and Clouds
Bruno Pupparo – Black and White
Remo Ugolinelli – The Right Distance

Best Costumes

Milena Canonero – I Viceré
Ortensia De Francesco – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
Catia Dottori – Hotel Meina
Maurizio Millenotti – Parlami d'amore
Silvia Nebiolo, Patrizia Mazzon – Days and Clouds
Alessandra Toesca – Quiet Chaos

Best Visual Effects

Paola Trisoglio, Stefano Marinoni for Visualogie – The Girl by the Lake
Proxima – Quiet Chaos
Marbea – Concrete Romance
Lee Wilson – Mother of Tears
Corrado Virgilio, Vincenzo Nisco – Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

Best Make-up Artist

Gino Tamagnini – I Viceré
Martinas Cossu – Come tu mi vuoi
Gianfranco Mecacci – Quiet Chaos
Fernanda Perez – The Girl by the Lake
Esmé Sciaroni – Days and Clouds

Best Hairstylist

Maria Teresa Corridoni – I Viceré
Aldina Governatori – Days and Clouds
Giorgio Gregorini – Scusa ma ti chiamo amore
Ferdinando Merolla – Hotel Meina
Sharim Sabatini – Quiet Chaos

Best Documentary Feature

Madri – directed by Barbara Cupisti
Centravanti nato – directed by Gianclaudio Guiducci
La minaccia – directed by Silvia Luzi, Luca Bellino
Crossing the Line – directed by Pietro Marcello
We Want Roses Too – directed by Alina Marazzi

Best Short Film

Uova – directed by Alessandro Celli
Adil & Yusuf – directed by Claudio Noce
Il bambino di Carla – directed by Emanuela Rossi
Ora che Marlene – directed by Giovanna Nazarena Silvestri
Tramondo – directed by Giacomo Agnetti, Davide Bazzali

Best European Film

Irina Palm – directed by Sam Garbarski
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – directed by Cristian Mungiu
The Secret of the Grain – directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – directed by Shekhar Kapur
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – directed by Julian Schnabel

Best Foreign Film

No Country for Old Men – directed by Coen brothers
Across the Universe – directed by Julie Taymor
Into the Wild – directed by Sean Penn
In the Valley of Elah – directed by Paul Haggis
There Will Be Blood – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

David Youth Award

Parlami d'amore – directed by Silvio Muccino
The Right Distance – directed by Carlo Mazzacurati
Lessons in Chocolate – directed by Claudio Cupellini
Piano, solo – directed by Riccardo Milani
I Viceré – directed by Roberto Faenza

Special David Awards

References

^ Vivarelli, Nick (20 March 2008). "'Quiet Chaos' leads Davids noms". Variety. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
^ Gattuso, Ferruccio (22 March 2008). "David di Donatello, le nomination ("Caos Calmo" con 18 candidature)". Donne Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 19 July 2024.
^ Vivarelli, Nick (19 April 2008). "'Girl by the Lake' tops David awards". Variety. Retrieved 19 July 2024.

[1] Vivarelli, Nick (20 March 2008). "'Quiet Chaos' leads Davids noms". Variety. Retrieved 19 July 2024.

[2] Gattuso, Ferruccio (22 March 2008). "David di Donatello, le nomination ("Caos Calmo" con 18 candidature)". Donne Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 19 July 2024.

[3] Vivarelli, Nick (19 April 2008). "'Girl by the Lake' tops David awards". Variety. Retrieved 19 July 2024.

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