dfter the announcement of the nominations, it’s finally time for the awards. Tonight at 21.30 on Rai 1 David 2023 is on the air, the 68th edition of the highest award for Italian cinema. In contention for the statuette the best films released between March 1 and December 31, 2022. Three, however, the special Davi: a Marina Cicogna, Enrico Vanzina and Isabella Rossellini.
David 2023, the presenters Carlo Conti and Matilde Gioli
The conductor of the event is Carlo Conti. In the last edition he shared the stage with Drusilla Foer, fresh from the success of the Sanremo Festival 2022. This year Matilde Gioli joins him.
For the actress it is a return to Rai: in 2016 he joined Fabio Fazio a risk it all. Last December, however, she ventured solo with the reality show Summer Job, available on Netflix. Then there is the role of Dr. Giulia in Doc – In your handsnext to Luca Argentero.
Special David to Marina Cicogna, Isabella Rossellini and Enrico Vanzina
THE David special this year will be awarded to three leading names in cinema. It’s about Marina Cicogna, Enrico Vanzina and Isabella Rossellini. Marina – nephew of Giuseppe Volpi, the creator of Marghera and the Venice Film Festival – is mainly awarded as a producer (she was also an actress and screenwriter). In fact, some of the greatest Italian films of international importance are owed to her. Cosette as Once Upon a Time in the West, Investigation of a citizen above suspicion (Oscar in 1971 for Best Foreign Film) Brother sun, sister moon. Metallurgist Mimì wounded in honor. And also of Beautiful by daywhich nobody wanted to finance.
Enrico Vanzina deserves credit for having «indelibly fixed the sense of an era without fearing pop», explained Piera Detassis, president of the Italian Cinema Academy. An acknowledgment that «it wants to be a celebration of the multifaceted author and at the same time the affectionate tribute to an artistic family of great weavers of Italian comedyinventors of genres sedimented in our DNA as spectators».
For the Academy, Isabella Rossellini – daughter of two film legends, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini – «she was able to challenge every cliché with great freedom, confirming herself as a multifaceted and nonconformist artist». A career that spanned fashion, cinema, theatre, television, which they define as a «great interpreter and ironic author of provocative films and theatrical monologues, finally an ethologist and environmental activist».
The films, actors and directors nominated for the David 2023
There are 26 films nominated for the David 2023. The favorites are Night exteriorleading with 18 nominations, The strangeness And The eight mountainswith 14. They follow The lord of the ants (11), Nostalgia (9), The shadow of Caravaggio (5), The hummingbird And Drought with 4.
To contend for the title of Best Film and Best Director I am: Night exterior (Marco Bellocchio) The lord of the ants (Gianni Amelio) The strangeness (Roberto Ando), The eight mountains (Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch) e Nostalgia (Mario Martone).
Nominated for the Best Actress There are Margherita Buy For Night exterior, Penélope Cruz For The immensity, Claudia Pandolfi For Drought, Blessed Porcaroli For Amanda And Barbara Ronchi For September.
Borghi and Marinelli nominated for Best Actor for The eight mountains
The Best Actorhowever, will be one of Alessandro Borgo (The eight mountains), Ficarra and Picone (The strangeness), Fabrizio Gifuni (Night exterior), Louis LoCascio (The lord of the ants) And Luca Marinelli (The eight mountains). As for the Best Supporting Actressthe candidates are: Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Amanda), Daniela Marra (Night exterior), Giulia Andò (The strangeness), Aurora Quattrocchi (Nostalgia) and Emanuela Fanelli (Drought).
They compete for the Best Supporting Actor Fausto Russo AlesiNight exteriorToni ServilloNight exterior), Aelius Germanus (The lord of the ants), Philip Time (The eight mountains) and Francesco Di Leva (Nostalgia).
Alessandro Borghi at the Quirinale with all the nominees of the David 2023. (Getty Images)
David 2023, predictions: will Ficarra and Picone win?
Ficarra and Picone are at their first nomination in the Best Actor category. In 2007 they achieved a noomnation as Best Debut Director for On the 7th and 8th. In 2020, however, they received the Spectator’s DavidFor The first Christmastheir sixth film as directors.
In The strangeness they play alongside Toni Servillo (Luigi Pirandello), in the role of Sebastiano Vella (Salvatore Ficarra) and Onofrio (Valentino Picone). The film was released at the cinema on October 22, 2022 and totaled the best Italian debut of the year. In total it has collected over 5 million and 500 thousand euros.
Colleagues in the same category have already obtained a David. Alessandro Borghi in 2019 with On my skin, Fabrizio Gifuini in 2014 for The human capital. Luigi Lo Cascio, on the other hand, was awarded the prize in 2001 for The one hundred Steps and in 2020 for The traitor, but in this case as Best Supporting Actor. Finally, Luca Marinelli won in 2016 as Best Supporting Actor with They called him Jeeg Robot.
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