# Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay

The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned each year, since 1948, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.

## History

The union of film journalists was founded in the same year in which the Nastri were born, 1946, by a group of film journalists and essayists, some of whom later became directors (Steno and Mario Soldati, who was its first president) and authors (Michelangelo Antonioni, Antonio Pietrangeli). The first regulation motivated the establishment of the Silver Ribbon to "promote the continuous artistic, technical and industrial improvement of Italian cinema and pay homage to its relevant acquisitions".
It was delivered for the first time in 1946 in Rome, at the Hotel de Russie. The editions were held mainly between Rome and Taormina, with the exception of some particular editions (in Florence, after the 1966 flood, as a sign of solidarity) and, always in its first years of life, also in Sorrento.
In the first editions, the prizes were awarded to the films presented during the year considered by the industry, the one that ends with the end of the season; they were then attributed to the films released in the calendar year, while subsequently they were again assigned to the films released in theaters within the days immediately following the Cannes Film Festival, therefore within the last days of May, when the 'five' finalists are announced to which an event with all the candidates for the awards is dedicated.
After a few editions in the headquarters of the French Academy in Villa Medici, it is held, also in Rome, in the space of the MAXXI Museum. The prizes are awarded on the basis of 'five' proposed by the national board of the Union to the vote (notarial) of the members of the union, film journalists of the press, television, radio and Internet.
The delivery of the Silver Ribbons is combined with the Guglielmo Biraghi prizes awarded since 2001, destined for the best of the young new actors in the cinema of the year.

## 1940s and 1950s

* 1948: Gaspare Cataldo, Pala & Alberto Vecchietti - The Brothers Karamazov
* 1949: Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Oreste Biancoli, Adolfo Franci & Gerardo Guerrieri – Bicycle Thieves
* 1950: Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Cesare Zavattini & Renato Castellani – It's Forever Springtime
* 1951: Cesare Zavattini & Alessandro Blasetti – Father's Dilemma
* 1952: Ettore Maria Margadonna, Titina De Filippo & Renato Castellani – Two Cents Worth of Hope
* 1953: not assigned
* 1954: Vitaliano Brancati, Sergio Amidei, Vincenzo Talarico & Luigi Zampa – Anni facili
* 1955: not assigned
* 1956: Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa & Giuseppe Mancione – Gli innamorati
* 1957: Cesare Zavattini – The Roof
* 1958: Valerio Zurlini, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi & Alberto Lattuada – Guendalina
* 1959: Age & Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi D'Amico & Mario Monicelli – I soliti ignoti

## 1960s

* 1960: Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti & Pietro Germi – Un maledetto imbroglio
* 1961: Pasquale Festa Campanile, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Massimo Franciosa, Enrico Medioli & Luchino Visconti- Rocco and His Brothers
* 1962: Ennio De Concini, Alfredo Giannetti & Pietro Germi – Divorzio all'italiana
* 1963: Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Carlo Bernari & Nanni Loy- Le quattro giornate di Napoli
* 1964: Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi & Federico Fellini – 8½
* 1965: Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni & Pietro Germi – Seduced and Abandoned
* 1966: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola & Antonio Pietrangeli – I Knew Her Well
* 1967: Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni & Pietro Germi – The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
* 1968: Ugo Pirro & Elio Petri – A ciascuno il suo
* 1969: Dino Maiuri, Massimo De Rita & Carlo Lizzani – Banditi a Milano

## 1970s

* 1970: Fabio Carpi & Nelo Risi – Diario di una schizofrenica
* 1971: Adriano Baracco [it], Tullio Kezich, Alberto Lattuada & Piero Chiara – Venga a prendere il caffè da noi
* 1972: Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi & Nino Manfredi – Per grazia ricevuta
* 1973: Alberto Bevilacqua – Questa specie d'amore
* 1974: Tonino Guerra & Federico Fellini – Amarcord
* 1975: Age & Scarpelli & Ettore Scola – C'eravamo tanto amati
* 1976: Tullio Pinelli, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi & Pietro Germi – Amici miei
* 1977: Sergio Amidei & Mario Monicelli – Un borghese piccolo piccolo
* 1978: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola & Maurizio Costanzo – Una giornata particolare
* 1979: Ermanno Olmi – L'albero degli zoccoli

## 1980s

* 1980: Age & Scarpelli & Ettore Scola – La terrazza
* 1981: Ruggero Maccari & Ettore Scola – Passione d'amore
* 1982: Tullio Pinelli, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Bernardino Zapponi & Mario Monicelli- Il marchese del Grillo
* 1983: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Tonino Guerra & Giuliani G. De Negri – La notte di San Lorenzo
* 1984: Elvio Porta & Nanni Loy – Mi manda Picone
* 1985: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani & Tonino Guerra – Kaos
* 1986: Tullio Pinelli, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Suso Cecchi D'Amico & Mario Monicelli- Let's Hope It's a Girl
* 1987: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola & Furio Scarpelli – The Family
* 1988: Massimo Troisi & Anna Pavignano – Le vie del Signore sono finite
* 1989: Tullio Kezich & Ermanno Olmi – The Legend of the Holy Drinker

## 1990s

* 1990: Pupi Avati – The Story of Boys & Girls
* 1991: Suso Cecchi D'Amico & Tonino Guerra – Dark Illness
* 1992: Andrea Barbato & Emidio Greco – A Simple Story
* 1993: Stefano Rulli, Sandro Petraglia & Gianni Amelio – The Stolen Children
* 1994: Francesca Archibugi – The Great Pumpkin
* 1995: Alessandro D'Alatri – No Skin
* 1996: Leone Pompucci, Filippo Pichi & Paolo Rossi – Camerieri
* 1997: Giovanni Veronesi & Leonardo Pieraccioni – The Cyclone
* 1998: Vincenzo Cerami & Roberto Benigni – Life Is Beautiful
* 1999: Giuseppe Tornatore – The Legend of 1900

## 2000s

* 2000: Doriana Leondeff [de] & Silvio Soldini – Bread and Tulips
** Antonio [it] & Pupi Avati – A Midsummer Night's Dance [it]
** Bernardo Bertolucci & Clare Peploe – Besieged
** Enzo Monteleone & Angelo Orlando – Outlaw
** Gabriele Muccino & Adele Tulli – But Forever in My Mind
* 2001: Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana & Monica Zapelli – One Hundred Steps
** Francesca Archibugi – Domani
** Leonardo Fasoli & Gianluca Maria Tavarelli – This Is Not Paradise
** Linda Ferri, Nanni Moretti & Heidrun Schleef [it] – The Son's Room
** Ferzan Ozpetek & Gianni Romoli [it] – Le fate ignoranti
* 2002: Giulia Calenda, Cristina Comencini & Lucilla Schiaffino – Il più bel giorno della mia vita
** Marco Bellocchio – L'ora di religione
** Emanuele Crialese – Respiro
** Enzo D'Alò & Umberto Marino [it] – Momo
** Paolo Sorrentino – One Man Up
* 2003: Gabriele Muccino & Heidrun Schleef [it] – Ricordati di me
** Niccolò Ammaniti & Francesca Marciano – Io non ho paura
** Massimo D'Anolfi & Roberta Torre – Angela
** Roberto Faenza – The Soul Keeper
** Enzo Monteleone – El Alamein - The Line of Fire
** Ferzan Ozpetek & Gianni Romoli [it] – Facing Windows
* 2004: Sandro Petraglia & Stefano Rulli – The Best of Youth
** Franco Battiato & Manlio Sgalambro Perdutoamor
** Marco Bellocchio – Buongiorno, notte
** Salvatore Mereu [it] – Three-Step Dance
** Francesco Bruni & Paolo Virzì – Caterina va in città
* 2005: Sergio Castellitto & Margaret Mazzantini – Non ti muovere
** Gianni Amelio, Sandro Petraglia & Stefano Rulli – Le chiavi di casa
** Pupi Avati – La rivincita di Natale
** Davide Ferrario – After Midnight
** Andrea Frazzi [it], Antonio Frazzi [it], Marcello Fois, Diego De Silva [it] & Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani [it] – Certi bambini
* 2006: Ugo Chiti & Giovanni Veronesi – Manuale d'amore
** Alessandro D'Alatri, Gennaro Nunziante & Domenico Starnone – The Fever
** Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli, Giancarlo De Cataldo & Michele Placido – Romanzo criminale
** Giuseppe Rocca, Laura Sabatino & Antonietta De Lillo – The Remains of Nothing
** Gabriele Salvatores & Fabio Scamoni – Quo Vadis, Baby?
* 2007: Ferzan Ozpetek & Gianni Romoli [it] – Saturno contro
** Antonio Capuano – La guerra di Mario
** Emanuele Crialese – Nuovomondo
** Linda Ferri, Federico Starnone, Francesco Giammusso & Kim Rossi Stuart – Anche libero va bene
** Mario Monicelli, Alessandro Bencivenni [it] & Domenico Saverni [it] – Le rose del deserto
** Giuseppe Tornatore – La sconosciuta
* 2008: Sandro Petraglia – La ragazza del lago with Daniele Luchetti & Stefano Rulli – Mio fratello è figlio unico
** Francesco Bruni & Paolo Virzì – Tutta la vita davanti
** Peter Del Monte & Michele Pellegrini – Nelle tue mani
** Doriana Leondeff [de], Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli [it] & Silvio Soldini – Days and Clouds
** Michele Pellegrini & Gianni Zanasi – Don't Think About It
* 2009: Paolo Sorrentino – Il Divo
** Francesca Archibugi – A Question of the Heart
** Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni Di Gregorio & Matteo Garrone – Gomorrah
** Fausto Brizzi, Massimiliano Bruno & Marco Martani [it] – Ex
** Jim Carrington, Andrea Purgatori & Marco Risi – Fortapàsc

## 2010s

* 2010: Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo & Paolo Virzì – La prima cosa bella
** Ivan Cotroneo, Ferzan Ozpetek – Mine vaganti
** Alessandro Genovesi & Gabriele Salvatores – Happy Family
** Gabriele Muccino – Baciami ancora
** Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli & Daniele Luchetti – La nostra vita
* 2011: Massimo Gaudioso – Benvenuti al Sud
** Massimiliano Bruno & Edoardo Falcone with the collaboration of Fausto Brizzi – Escort in Love
** Antonio Capuano – Dark Love (L'amore buio)
** Daniele Gaglianone – Pietro
** Pasquale Scimeca & Nennella Buonaiuto with the collaboration of Tonino Guerra – Malavoglia
* 2012: Marco Tullio Giordana, Sandro Petraglia & Stefano Rulli – Romanzo di una strage
** Carlo Verdone, Pasquale Plastino [it] & Maruska Albertazzi – A Flat for Three
** Daniele Vicari & Laura Paolucci – Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
** Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello [it] – This Must Be the Place
** Francesco Bruni – Scialla! (Stai sereno)
* 2013: Roberto Andò & Angelo Pasquini [it] – Viva la libertà
** Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo & Stefano Rulli – Bella addormentata
** Giuseppe Piccioni & Francesca Manieri – The Red and the Blue
** Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello [it] – La grande bellezza
** Giuseppe Tornatore – La migliore offerta