61st David di Donatello

61st David di Donatello
Date	27 March 2016
Site	De Paolis Studios, Rome, Italy
Hosted by	Alessandro Cattelan
Highlights
Best Picture	Like Crazy
Most awards	They Call Me Jeeg (8)
Most nominations	They Call Me Jeeg (17)
Television coverage
Network	Sky Cinema

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Perfect Strangers – directed by Paolo Genovese‡.
  • Don't Be Bad – directed by Claudio Caligari
  • Fire at Sea – directed by Gianfranco Rosi
  • Tale of Tales – directed by Matteo Garrone
  • Youth – directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Best Producer

• They Call Me Jeeg – Gabriele Mainetti‡
  • Fire at Sea - 21uno Film, Stemal Entertainment, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Rai Cinema, and Les Films d'Ici
  • Tale of Tales – Archimede and Rai Cinema
  • Don't Be Bad – Paolo Bogna, Simone Isola and Valerio Mastandrea
  • Italian Race – Domenico Procacci
  • Youth - Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori

Best Director

• Matteo Garrone – Tale of Tales‡
  • Claudio Caligari – Don't Be Bad
  • Paolo Genovese – Perfect Strangers
  • Gianfranco Rosi – Fire at Sea
  • Paolo Sorrentino – Youth

Best New Director

• Gabriele Mainetti – They Call Me Jeeg‡
  • Alberto Caviglia– Burning Love
  • Carlo Lavagna – Arianna
  • Piero Messina – The Wait
  • Adriano Valerio – Banat

Best Actor

• Claudio Santamaria – They Call Me Jeeg as Enzo Ceccotti‡
  • Alessandro Borghi– Don't Be Bad as Vittorio
  • Marco Giallini – Perfect Strangers as Rocco
  • Luca Marinelli – Don't Be Bad as Cesare
  • Valerio Mastandrea – Perfect Strangers as Lele

Best Actress

• Valeria Bruni Tedeschi – Like Crazy as Beatrice Morandini Valdirana‡
  • Matilda De Angelis – Italian Race as Giulia De Martino
  • Angela and Marianna Fontana – Indivisible as Viola and Daisy
  • Micaela Ramazzotti – Like Crazy as Donatella Morelli
  • Daphne Scoccia – Fiore as Daphne Bonori

Best Supporting Actor

• Valerio Mastandrea – Fiore as Ascanio‡
  • Roberto De Francesco – Le ultime cose as Sergio
  • Ennio Fantastichini – La stoffa dei sogni as De Caro
  • Pierfrancesco Favino – The Confessions as Ministro italiano
  • Massimiliano Rossi – Indivisible as Peppe

Best Supporting Actress

• Antonia Truppo – Indivisible as Titti‡
  • Valentina Carnelutti – Like Crazy as Fiamma Zappa
  • Michela Cescon – Piuma as Carla Pardini
  • Valeria Golino – La vita possibile as Carla
  • Roberta Mattei – Veloce come il vento as Annarella

Best Original Screenplay

• Indivisible – Nicola Guaglianone, Barbara Petronio and Edoardo De Angelis‡
  • At War with Love – Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto and Marco Martani
  • The Confessions – Roberto Andò and Angelo Pasquini
  • Fiore – Claudio Giovannesi, Filippo Gravino and Antonella Lattanzi
  • Italian Race – Filippo Gravino, Francesca Manieri and Matteo Rovere
  • Like Crazy – Francesca Archibugi and Paolo Virzì

Best Cinematography

• Italian Race – Michele D'Attanasio‡
  • The Confessions – Maurizio Calvesi
  • Indivisible – Ferran Paredes Rubio
  • Like Crazy – Vladan Radovic
  • Sweet Dreams – Daniele Ciprì

Best Sets and Decorations

• Like Crazy – Tonino Zera‡
  • At War with Love – Marcello Di Carlo
  • Indivisible – Carmine Guarino
  • Sweet Dreams – Marco Dentici
  • La stoffa dei sogni – Livia Borgognoni

Best Score

• Indivisible – Enzo Avitabile‡
  • Italian Race – Andrea Farri
  • Like Crazy – Carlo Virzì
  • La stoffa dei sogni – Franco Piersanti
  • Sweet Dreams – Carlo Crivelli

Best Song

• "Abbi pietà di noi" from Indivisible – Music and lyrics by Enzo Avitabile; performed by Enzo Avitabile, Angela Fontana and Marianna Fontana‡
  • "L'estate addosso" from Summertime – Music by Lorenzo Cherubini, Christian Rigano and Riccardo Onori; lyrics by Lorenzo Cherubini and Vasco Brondi; performed by Jovanotti
  • "I Can See the Stars" from How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents – Music and lyrics by Fabrizio Campanelli; performed by Leonardo Cecchi, Eleonora Gaggero and Beatrice Vendramin
  • "Po Popporoppò" from Like Crazy – Music and lyrics by Carlo Virzì; performed by the patients of Villa Biondi
  • "Seventeen" from Italian Race – Music by Andrea Farri; lyrics by Lara Martelli; performed by Matilda De Angelis

Best Editing

• Italian Race – Gianni Vezzosi ‡
  • 7 Minutes – Consuelo Catucci
  • Indivisible – Chiara Griziotti
  • Like Crazy – Cecilia Zanuso
  • La stoffa dei sogni – Alessio Doglione

Best Sound

• Italian Race – Angelo Bonanni, Diego De Santis, Mirko Perri and Michele Mazzucco ‡
  • Indivisible – Valentino Giannì, Fabio Conca, Omar Abouzaid, Sandro Rossi, Lilio Rosato and Francesco Cucinelli
  • Like Crazy – Alessandro Bianchi, Luca Novelli, Daniela Bassani, Fabrizio Quadroli and Gianni Pallotto
  • La stoffa dei sogni – Filippo Porcari, Federica Ripani, Claudio Spinelli, Marco Marinelli and Massimo Marinelli
  • Sweet Dreams – Gaetano Carito, Pierpaolo Lorenzo, Lilio Rosato, New Digital Sound, Roberto Cappannelli

Best Costumes

• Indivisible – Massimo Cantini Parrini‡
  • At War with Love – Cristiana Ricceri
  • Italian Race – Cristina La Parola
  • Like Crazy – Catia Dottori
  • La stoffa dei sogni – Beatrice Giannini and Elisabetta Antico

Best Visual Effects

• Italian Race – Artea Film and Rain Rebel Alliance International Network‡
  • At War with Love – Chromatica
  • Indivisible – Makinarium
  • Mine – Mercurio Domina, Far Forward, Fast Forward
  • Ustica: The Missing Paper – Canecane, Inlusion and Mikros Image

Best Make-up

• Italian Race – Luca Mazzoccoli‡
  • At War with Love – Maurizio Fazzini
  • Indivisible – Valentina Iannuccilli
  • Like Crazy – Esmé Sciaroni
  • La stoffa dei sogni – Silvia Beltrani
  • Sweet Dreams – Gino Tamagnini

Best Hairstyling

• Like Crazy – Daniela Tartari‡
  • At War with Love – Massimiliano Gelo
  • Indivisible – Vincenzo Cormaci
  • Italian Race – Alessio Pompei
  • Sweet Dreams – Mauro Tamagnini

Best Documentary Feature

• Crazy for Football: The Craziest World Cup – directed by Volfango De Biasi‡
  • 60 - Ieri, oggi, domani – directed by Giorgio Treves
  • Libera Nos – directed by Federica Di Giacomo
  • Magic Island – directed by Marco Amenta
  • Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life – directed by Fariborz Kamkari

Best Short Film

• A casa mia – directed by Volfango De Biasi‡
  • Ego – directed by Lorenza Indovina
  • Mostri – directed by Adriano Giotti
  • Simposio Suino in re minore – directed by Francesco Filippini
  • Viola, Franca – directed by Marta Savina

Best European Film

• Son of Saul (Hungary) – directed by [[László Nemes]‡
  • 45 Years, (United Kingdom) – directed by Andrew Haigh
  • The Brand New Testament (Belgium/France/Luxembourg) – directed by Jaco Van Dormael
  • The Danish Girl (United Kingdom / United States) – directed by Tom Hooper
  • Truman (Spain) – directed by Fernando León de Aranoa

Best Foreign Film

• Nocturnal Animals (United States) – directed by Tom Ford‡
  • Captain Fantastic (United States) – directed by Matt Ross
  • Lion (Australia) – directed by Garth Davis
  • Paterson (United States / Germany / France) – directed by Jim Jarmusch
  • Sully (United States) – directed by Clint Eastwood

David Youth Award

• At War with Love – directed by Pif‡
  • 7 Minutes – directed by Michele Placido
  • Like Crazy – directed by Paolo Virzì
  • Piuma – directed by Roan Johnson
  • Summertime – directed by Gabriele Muccino

Special David Awards

• Roberto Benigni