‘the eight mountains’, ‘exterior night’ take top honors at italy’s david di donatello awards – full nominees and winners list

Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s Italian-language drama _The Eight Mountains_ and veteran Marco Bellocchio’s _Exterior Night _topped the 68th edition of

Italy’s David di Donatello Awards on Wednesday evening. _The Eight Mountains_ won best film as well as best non-original screenplay, photography and sound. Based on the novel of the same

name by Paolo Cognetti, it stars Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi as two men from different backgrounds who form a life-long bond during summers spent together as children in a remote

mountain village. The film world premiered in Competition at Cannes last year where it co-won the Jury Prize. Read the Deadline review here. WATCH ON DEADLINE It is the second time in the

history of the awards that a film by non-Italian directors has clinched the best film prize. The last time was in 1971 when the Dino de Laurentiis-produced epic_ Waterloo_ by Russian

director Sergei Bonderchuk, tied with _The Garden of the Finzi-Continis_ and _The Conformist_. Van Groeningen said the film had been “an incredible journey” adding, “Why did two Belgians end

up making a film in Italy? It was a very beautiful story, from a book that the producers sent me, and I said: yes, let’s do it.” His co-director Vandermeersch is also only the second woman

to win the best film award after Francesca Archibugi, who clinched the prize twice for _Verso Sera_ and _The Great Pumpkin_ in 1991 and 1993 respectively. Marco Bellocchio won best director

for series _Exterior Night _about the events surrounding the Red Brigade kidnapping and assassination in 1978 of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. The veteran filmmaker previously won

the prize for _Vincere_ and _The Traitor_ in 2010 and 2020 respectively. Ruben Oslund’s Triangle Of Sadness won best international film. “I didn’t expect it, I’m telling the truth, but I

accept it” he explains. “At my age you become wise. The important thing is not to stop. I wish I still had time to do things,” said the director who heads to Cannes next week with_

Kidnapped_. In other prizes, actress Isabella Rossellini and director Enrico Vanzina were feted with special honorary awards. “I feel half Italian. Italy is my second home and I am in love

with Italy. It’s a marvellous country from A to B, but if I had to choose it would of course be Rome,” said Rossellini on receiving her trophy from Matt Dillon. Veteran producer Marina

Cicogna, who worked with the likes of Sergio Leone, Lina Wertmuller, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio De Sica and Franco Zeffirelli, was also feted with a career award. The awards are voted on

by 1,600 Italian film professionals belonging to the David di Donatello Academy. FULL LIST OF 2023 WINNERS (IN BOLD) AND NOMINEES BEST DIRECTOR * MARCO BELLOCCHIO, _EXTERIOR NIGHT_ * Gianni

Amelio, _Lord of the Ants_ * Roberto Andò, _Strangeness_ * Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersh, _The Eight Mountains_ * Mario Martone, _Nostalgia_ BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT *

Caroline Cavalli, _Amanda_ * Jasmine Trinca _Marcel!_ * Niccolò Falsetti _Margins_ * GIULIA LOUISE STEIGERWALT, _SEPTEMBER_ * Vincenzo Pirrotta, _Spaccaossa_ BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY *

_Astolfo_, Gianni Di Gregorio, Marco Pettenello * _Chiara_, Susanna Nicchiarelli * _Exterior Night_, Marco Bellocchio, Stefano Bises, Ludovica Rampoldi, Davide Serino * _Lord of the Ants_,

Gianni Amelio, Edoardo Petti, Federico Fava * _L’Immensità_, Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Manieri, Vittorio Moroni * _STRANGENESS_, ROBERTO ANDÒ, UGO CHITI, MASSIMO GAUDIOSO BEST ADAPTED

SCREENPLAY * _Bentu_, Salvatore Mereu * _Brado_, Massimo Gaudioso, Kim Rossi Stuart * _The Hummingbird_, Francesca Archibugi, Laura Paolucci, Francesco Piccolo * _THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS_, FELIX

VAN GROENINGEN, CHARLOTTE VANDERMEERSH * _Nostalgia_, Mario Martone, Ippolita Di Majo BEST LEADING ACTRESS * Benedetta Porcaroli_, Amanda_ * Margherita Buy,_ Exterior Night_ * Penelope

Cruz, _L’Immensità_ * BARBARA RONCHI, _SEPTEMBER_ * Claudia Pandolfi, _Dr_y BEST LEADING ACTOR * FABRIZIO GIFUNI,_Exterior Night_ * Luigi Lo Cascio, _Lord of the Ants_ * Ficarra e Picone

(Salvatore Ficarra and Valentino Picone), _Strangeness_ * Alessandro Borghi, _The Eight Mountains_ * Luca Marinelli, _The Eight Mountains_ BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS * Giovanna Mezzogiorno,

_Amanda_ * Daniela Marra, _Exterior Night_ * Giulia Andò, _Strangeness_ * Aurora Quattrocchi, _Nostalgia_ * EMANUELA FANELLI, _DRY_ BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR * Fausto Russo Alesi, _Exterior

Night_ * Toni Servillo, _Exterior Night_ * Elio Germanus, _Lord of the Ants_ * Filippo Timi, _The Eight mountains_ * FRANCESCO DI LEVA, _NOSTALGIA_ BEST PRODUCER * _Exterior Night_ (Lorenzo

Mieli, The Apartment/Fremantle, Simone Gattoni, Kavac Film) * _STRANGENESS_ (ANGELO BARBAGALLO, BIBI FILM, ATTILIO DE RAZZA, TRAMP LIMITED) * _The Eight Mountains_ (Wildside, Rufus,

Menuetto, Pyramide Productions, Vision Distribution) * _Nostalgia_ (Medusa Film, Maria Carolina Terzi, Luciano and Carlo Stella, Mad Entertainement, Roberto Sessa, Angelo Laudisa, Rosebud

Entertainment Pictures) * _Princess_ (Carla Altieri, Roberto De Paolis, Young Films, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri, Indigo Films) BEST PHOTOGRAPHY *

_Exterior Night, Francesco di Giacomo_ *  _I racconti della Domenica__, _Giovanni Mammolotti * _Strangeness, _Maurizio Calvesi * _THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS, _REUBEN IMPENS * _Nostalgia, _Paolo

Carnera BEST COMPOSER * _Exterior Night –_ Fabio Massimo Capogrosso * _IL PATAFFIO, _STEFANO BOLLANI * _Strangeness, _Michele Braga and Emanuele Bossi * _The Eight mountains, _Daniel Norgren

* _Dry, _Franco Piersanti BEST ART DIRECTOR * GIADA CALABRIA, LOREDANA RAFFI, _STRANGENESS_ * Andrea Castorina, Marco Martucci, Laura Casalini, _Exterior Night_ * Marta Maffucci, Carolina

Ferrara, _Lord of the Ants_ * Massimiliano Nocente, Marcella Galeone, _The Eight Mountains_ * Tonino Zera, Maria Grazia Schirippa, Marco Bagnoli, _The shadow of Caravaggio_ BEST COSTUME *

MARIA RITA BARBERA, _STRANGENESS_ * Daria Calvelli, _Exterior Night_ * Massimo Cantini Parrini, _Chiara_ * Valentina Monticelli, _Lord of the ants_ * Carlo Poggioli, _The shadow of

Caravaggio_ BEST MAKEUP * Paola Gattabrusi, Lorenzo Tamburini, _The hummingbird_ * ENRICO IACOPONI, _EXTERIOR NIGHT_ * Federico Laurenti, Lorenzo Tamburini, _Dante_ * Luigi Rocchetti, _The

Shadow of Caravaggio_ * Esmé Sciaroni, _Lord of the ants_ BEST HAIR * DESIREE CORRIDONI, _THE SHADOW OF CARAVAGGIO_ * Alberta Giuliani, Exterior Night * Samantha Mura, _Lord of the ants_ *

Rudy Sifari, S_trangeness_ * Daniela Tartari, _L’Immensità_ BEST EDITING * Esmeralda Calabria, S_trangeness_ * FRANCESCA CALVELLI WITH THE COLLABORATION OF CLAUDIO MISANTONI, _EXTERIOR

NIGHT_ * Nico Leunen, _The Eight Mountains_ * Simona Paggi, _Lord of the Ants_ * Jacopo Quadri, _Nostalgia_ BEST SOUND * _Exterior Night_, Gaetano Carito, Lilio Rosato, Alberto Bernardi *

_Lord of the Ants_, Emanuele Cicconi, Mimmo Granata, Alberto Bernardi * _Strangeness_, Carlo Missidenti, Marta Billingsley, Gianni Pallotto * _THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS_, ALESSANDRO PALMERINI,

ALESSANDRO FELETTI, MARCO FALLONI * _Nostalgia_, Emanuele Cecere, Silvia Moraes, Giancarlo Rutigliano BEST SPECIAL EFFECTs * _Dampy_r, Alessio Bertotti, Filippo Robino * _Diabolik_, Simone

Silvestri, Vito Picchinenna * _Exterior Night_, Massimo Cipollinia * _The Eight Mountains,_ Rodolfo Migliari * _DRY_, MARCO GERACITANO BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM * _Bones and All_, Luca

Guardagnino * _Elvis_, Baz Luhrmann * _Licorice Pizza_, Paul Thomas Anderson * _The Fabelsmans_, Steven Spielberg * _TRIANGLE OF SADNESS_, RUBEN OSTLUND