59th David di Donatello

The 59th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 10 June 2014.

59th David di Donatello
Date	10 June 2014
Site	De Paolis Studios, Rome, Italy
Hosted by	Paolo Ruffini and Anna Foglietta
Highlights
Best Picture	Perfect Strangers
Most awards	They Call Me Jeeg (8)
Most nominations	They Call Me Jeeg (17)
Television coverage
Network	Sky Cinema

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Human Capital – directed by Paolo Virzì
• The Great Beauty – directed by Paolo Sorrentino
• The Mafia Kills Only in Summer – directed by Pierfrancesco Diliberto
• The Chair of Happiness – directed by Carlo Mazzacurati
• I Can Quit Whenever I Want – directed by Sydney Sibilia

Best Producer

• Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima for Indigo Film - The Great Beauty
• Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Maco Cohen for Indiana Production, Philippe Gompel, Birgit Kemner for Manny Films, with Rai Cinema and Motorino Amaranto - Human Capital
• Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli for Wildside with Rai Cinema - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
• Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri for Buena Onda with Rai Cinema - Miele
• Massimo Cristaldi, Fabrizio Mosca - Salvo
• Domenico Procacci, Matteo Rovere with Rai Cinema - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Director

• Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty
• Carlo Mazzacurati - The Chair of Happiness
• Ferzan Özpetek - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Ettore Scola - How Strange to Be Named Federico
• Paolo Virzì - Human Capital

Best New Director

• Pierfrancesco Diliberto - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
• Valeria Golino - Miele
• Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza - Salvo
• Matteo Oleotto - Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot
• Sydney Sibilia - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Actor

• Toni Servillo - The Great Beauty
• Giuseppe Battiston - Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot
• Fabrizio Bentivoglio - Human Capital
• Carlo Cecchi - Miele
• Edoardo Leo - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Actress

• Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Human Capital
• Paola Cortellesi - Sotto una buona stella
• Sabrina Ferilli - The Great Beauty
• Kasia Smutniak - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Jasmine Trinca - Miele

Best Supporting Actor

• Fabrizio Gifuni - Human Capital
• Valerio Aprea - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
• Giuseppe Battiston - The Chair of Happiness
• Libero De Rienzo - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
• Stefano Fresi - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
• Carlo Verdone - The Great Beauty

Best Supporting Actress

• Valeria Golino - Human Capital
• Claudia Gerini - Tutta colpa di Freud
• Paola Minaccioni - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Galatea Ranzi - The Great Beauty
• Milena Vukotic - The Chair of Happiness

David di Donatello for Best Screenplay

• Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni, Paolo Virzì - Human Capital
• Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello - The Great Beauty
• Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Marco Martani - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
• Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella, Valeria Golino - Miele
• Valerio Attanasio, Andrea Garello, Sydney Sibilia - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Cinematography

• Luca Bigazzi - The Great Beauty
• Jérôme Alméras - Human Capital
• Daniele Ciprì - Salvo
• Gian Filippo Corticelli - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Gergely Poharnok - Miele

Best Sets and Decorations

• Stefania Cella - The Great Beauty
• Giancarlo Basili - Those Happy Years
• Marco Dentici - Salvo
• Marta Maffucci - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Mauro Radaelli - Human Capital

Best Score

• Pivio e Aldo De Scalzi - Song'e Napule
• Pasquale Catalano - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Lele Marchitelli - The Great Beauty
• Umberto Scipione - Sotto una buona stella
• Carlo Virzì - Human Capital

Best Original Song

• "A' verità" from Song'e Napule - Music and lyrics by Francesco Liccardo, Rosario Castagnola, Sarah Tartuffo, Alessandro Nelson Garofalo, performed by Franco Ricciardi
• "I'm Sorry" from Human Capital - Music and lyrics by Giacomo Vaccai, performed by Jackie O'S Farm
• "A malìa" from The Art of Happiness - Music and lyrics by Dario Sansone, performed by Foja
• "Tosami lady" from The Mafia Kills Only in Summer - Music and lyrics by Santi Pulvirenti, performed by Domenico Centamore
• "Smetto quando voglio" from I Can Quit Whenever I Want - Music and lyrics by Domenico "Scarda" Scardamaglio
• "Dove cadono i fulmini" from Una piccola impresa meridionale - Music, lyrics and performed Erica Mou

Best Editing

• Cecilia Zanuso - Human Capital
• Giogiò Franchini - Miele
• Patrizio Marone - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Cristiano Travaglioli - The Great Beauty
• Gianni Vezzosi - I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Best Sound

• Roberto Mozzarelli - Human Capital
• Maurizio Argenterie - Those Happy Years
• Angelo Bonanni - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
• Emanuele Cecere - The Great Beauty
• Marco Grillo, Mirco Pantalla - Fasten Your Seatbelts

Best Costumes

• Daniela Ciancio - The Great Beauty
• Maria Rita Barbera - Those Happy Years
• Alessandro Lai - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Bettina Pontiggia - Human Capital
• Cristiana Ricceri - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer

Best Visual Effects

• Rodolfo Migliari, Luca Della Grotta for Chromatica - The Great Beauty
• EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani - Human Capital
• Paola Trisoglio, Stefano Marinoni for Visualogie - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
• Rodolfo Migliari for Chromatica - I Can Quit Whenever I Want
• Palantir Digital - Song'e Napule

Best Make-up Artist

• Maurizio Silvi - The Great Beauty
• Dalia Colli - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
• Paola Gattabrusi - Those Happy Years
• Caroline Phillipponnat - Human Capital
• Ermanno Spera - Fasten Your Seatbelts

Best Hairstylist

• Aldo Signoretti - The Great Beauty
• Francesca De Simone - Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Stéphane Desmarez - Human Capital
• Massimo Gattabrusi - Those Happy Years
• Sharim Sabatini - The Chair of Happiness

Best Documentary Feature

• Stop the Pounding Heart – directed by Roberto Minervini
• Dal profondo – directed by Valentina Pedicini
• Il segreto –directed by Cyop & Kaf
• In utero Srebrenica – directed by Giuseppe Carrieri
• L'amministratore – directed by Vincenzo Marra
• Sacro GRA – directed by Gianfranco Rosi

Best Short Film

• 37°4 S – directed by Adriano Valerio
• A passo d'uomo – directed by Giovanni Aloi
• Bella di notte – directed by Paolo Zucca
• Lao – directed by Gabriele Sabatino Nardis
• Non sono nessuno – directed by Francesco Segrè

Best European Film

• Philomena – directed by Stephen Frears
• Ida – directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
• Blue Is the Warmest Colour – directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
• Still Life – directed by Uberto Pasolini
• Venus in Fur – directed by Roman Polański

Best Foreign Film

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – directed by Wes Anderson
• 12 Years a Slave – directed by Steve McQueen
• American Hustle – directed by David O. Russell
• Blue Jasmine – directed by Woody Allen
• The Wolf of Wall Street – directed by Martin Scorsese

David Youth Award

• The Mafia Kills Only in Summer – Pierfrancesco Diliberto
• Human Capital – Paolo Virzì
• The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino
• Sole a catinelle – Gennaro Nunziante
• Tutta colpa di Freud – Paolo Genovese

Special David Awards

• Sophia Loren
• Andrea Occhipinti
• Marco Bellocchio (career award)
• Carlo Mazzacurati (career award) (posthumous)
• Riz Ortolani (career award) (posthumous)