57th David di Donatello

The 57th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 4 May 2012.

57th David di Donatello
Date	4 May 2012
Site	Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome, Italy
Hosted by	Tullio Solenghi
Highlights
Best Picture	Caesar Must Die
Most awards	Caesar Must Die (5)
Most nominations	Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (16)

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Caesar Must Die – directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• We Have a Pope – directed by Nanni Moretti
• Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy – directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
• Terraferma – directed by Emanuele Crialese
• This Must Be the Place – directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Best Producer

• Grazia Volpi – Caesar Must Die
• Nanni Moretti, Domenico Procacci – We Have a Pope
• Francesco Bonsembiante – Shun Li and the Poet
• Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Nicola Giuliano, Andrea Occhipinti, Francesca Cima – This Must Be the Place

Best Director

• Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – Caesar Must Die
• Nanni Moretti – We Have a Pope
• Ferzan Özpetek – Magnificent Presence
• Marco Tullio Giordana – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Emanuele Crialese – Terraferma
• Paolo Sorrentino – This Must Be the Place

Best New Director

• Francesco Bruni – Easy!
• Stefano Sollima – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
• Alice Rohrwacher – Heavenly Body
• Andrea Segre – Shun Li and the Poet
• Guido Lombardi – Là-bas: A Criminal Education

Best Actor

• Michel Piccoli – We Have a Pope
• Fabrizio Bentivoglio – Easy!
• Elio Germano – Magnificent Presence
• Marco Giallini – A Flat for Three
• Valerio Mastandrea – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Actress

• Zhao Tao – Shun Li and the Poet
• Valeria Golino – Kryptonite!
• Claudia Gerini – Il mio domani
• Micaela Ramazzotti – A Flat for Three
• Donatella Finocchiaro – Terraferma

Best Supporting Actor

• Pierfrancesco Favino – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Giuseppe Battiston – Shun Li and the Poet
• Marco Giallini – ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards
• Fabrizio Gifuni – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Renato Scarpa – We Have a Pope

Best Supporting Actress

• Michela Cescon – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Barbora Bobuľová – Easy!
• Anita Caprioli – Heavenly Body
• Cristiana Capotondi – Kryptonite!
• Margherita Buy – We Have a Pope

David di Donatello for Best Screenplay

• Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello – This Must Be the Place
• Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Fabio Cavalli – Caesar Must Die
• Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli – We Have a Pope
• Marco Tullio Giordana, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Francesco Bruni – Easy!

Best Cinematography

• Luca Bigazzi – This Must Be the Place
• Paolo Carnera – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
• Simone Zampagni – Caesar Must Die
• Alessandro Pesci – We Have a Pope
• Roberto Forza – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Sets and Decorations

• Paola Bizzarri – We Have a Pope
• Francesco Frigeri – The Entrepreneur
• Andrea Crisanti – Magnificent Presence
• Giancarlo Basili – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Stefania Cella – This Must Be the Place

Best Score

• David Byrne – This Must Be the Place
• Umberto Scipione – Benvenuti al Nord
• Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia – Caesar Must Die
• Franco Piersanti – We Have a Pope
• Pasquale Catalano – Magnificent Presence

Best Original Song

• "If It Falls, It Falls" from This Must Be the Place – Composed by David Byrne (music) and Will Oldham (lyrics), performed by Michael Brunnock –
• "Sometimes" from Benvenuti al Nord – Composed by Umberto Scipione and Alessia Scipione, performed by Alessia Scipione –
• "Gitmem daha" from Magnificent Presence Sezen Aksu, Pasquale Catalano and Yildirim Turker, performed by Sezen Aksu
• "Therese" from A Flat for Three – Composed by Gaetano Curreri, Andrea Fornili and Angelica Caronia, performed by Angelica Ponti
• "Scialla!" from Easy! – Composed and performed by Amir Issaa

Best Editing

• Roberto Perpignani – Caesar Must Die
• Patrizio Marone – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
• Esmeralda Calabria – We Have a Pope
• Francesca Calvelli – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Cristiano Travaglioli – This Must Be the Place

Best Sound

• Benito Alchimede, Brando Mosca – Caesar Must Die
• Gilberto Martinelli – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
• Alessandro Zanon – We Have a Pope
• Fulgenzio Ceccon – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Ray Cross, William Sarokin – This Must Be the Place

Best Costumes

• Lina Nerli Taviani – We Have a Pope
• Rossano Marchi – Kryptonite!
• Alessandro Lai – Magnificent Presence
• Francesca Livia Sartori – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Karen Patch – This Must Be the Place

Best Visual Effects

• Stefano Marinoni, Paola Trisoglio for Visualogie – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
• Palantir Digital Media – The Arrival of Wang
• Mario Zanot for Storyteller – We Have a Pope
• Stefano Marinoni and Paola Trisoglio for Visualogie, Rodolfo Migliari for Chromatica – This Must Be the Place
• Rainbow CGI – The Last Man on Earth

Best Make-up Artist

• Luisa Abel – This Must Be the Place
• Manlio Rocchetti – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
• Maurizio Fazzini – Kryptonite!
• Ermanno Spera – Magnificent Presence
• Enrico Iacoponi – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Hairstylist

• Kim Santantonio – This Must Be the Place
• Carlo Barucci – We Have a Pope
• Mauro Tamagnini – Kryptonite!
• Francesca De Simone – Magnificent Presence
• Ferdinando Merolla – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Best Documentary Feature

• Tahrir Liberation Square – directed by Stefano Savona
• The Castle – directed by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti
• Lasciando la baia del re – directed by Claudia Cipriani
• Pasta nera – directed by Alessandro Piva
• Polvere – Il grande processo dell'amianto – directed by Niccolò Bruna and Andrea Prandstraller
• Zavorra – directed by Vincenzo Mineo

Best Short Film

• Dell'ammazzare il maiale – directed by Simone Massi
• Ce l'hai un minuto? – directed by Alessandro Bardani and Luca Di Prospero
• Cusutu n' coddu – directed by Giovanni La Pàrola
• L'estate che non viene – directed by Pasquale Marino
• Tiger Boy – directed by Gabriele Mainetti

Best European Film

• The Intouchables – directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
• Carnage – directed by Roman Polański
• Melancholia – directed by Lars von Trier
• Le Havre – directed by Aki Kaurismäki
• The Artist – directed by Michel Hazanavicius

Best Foreign Film

• A Separation – directed by Asghar Farhadi
• Drive – directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
• Hugo (Hugo) – directed by Martin Scorsese
• The Ides of March – directed by George Clooney
• The Tree of Life – directed by Terrence Malick

David Youth Award

• Easy! – directed by Francesco Bruni