# 59th David di Donatello

The 59th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 10 June 2014.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Film Human Capital – directed by Paolo Virzì The Great Beauty – directed by Paolo Sorrentino The Mafia Kills Only in Summer – directed by Pierfrancesco Diliberto The Chair of Happiness – directed by Carlo Mazzacurati I Can Quit Whenever I Want – directed by Sydney Sibilia | Best Producer Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima for Indigo Film - The Great Beauty Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Maco Cohen for Indiana Production, Philippe Gompel, Birgit Kemner for Manny Films, with Rai Cinema and Motorino Amaranto - Human Capital Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli for Wildside with Rai Cinema - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer Riccardo Scamarcio, Viola Prestieri for Buena Onda with Rai Cinema - Miele Massimo Cristaldi, Fabrizio Mosca - Salvo Domenico Procacci, Matteo Rovere with Rai Cinema - I Can Quit Whenever I Want |
| Best Director Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty Carlo Mazzacurati - The Chair of Happiness Ferzan Özpetek - Fasten Your Seatbelts Ettore Scola - How Strange to Be Named Federico Paolo Virzì - Human Capital | Best New Director Pierfrancesco Diliberto - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer Valeria Golino - Miele Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza - Salvo Matteo Oleotto - Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot Sydney Sibilia - I Can Quit Whenever I Want |
| Best Actor Toni Servillo - The Great Beauty Giuseppe Battiston - Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot Fabrizio Bentivoglio - Human Capital Carlo Cecchi - Miele Edoardo Leo - I Can Quit Whenever I Want | Best Actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Human Capital Paola Cortellesi - Sotto una buona stella Sabrina Ferilli - The Great Beauty Kasia Smutniak - Fasten Your Seatbelts Jasmine Trinca - Miele |
| Best Supporting Actor Fabrizio Gifuni - Human Capital Valerio Aprea - I Can Quit Whenever I Want Giuseppe Battiston - The Chair of Happiness Libero De Rienzo - I Can Quit Whenever I Want Stefano Fresi - I Can Quit Whenever I Want Carlo Verdone - The Great Beauty | Best Supporting Actress Valeria Golino - Human Capital Claudia Gerini - Blame Freud Paola Minaccioni - Fasten Your Seatbelts Galatea Ranzi - The Great Beauty Milena Vukotic - The Chair of Happiness |
| David di Donatello for Best Screenplay Francesco Piccolo, Francesco Bruni, Paolo Virzì - Human Capital Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello - The Great Beauty Michele Astori, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Marco Martani - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella, Valeria Golino - Miele Valerio Attanasio, Andrea Garello, Sydney Sibilia - I Can Quit Whenever I Want | Best Cinematography Luca Bigazzi - The Great Beauty Jérôme Alméras - Human Capital Daniele Ciprì - Salvo Gian Filippo Corticelli - Fasten Your Seatbelts Gergely Poharnok - Miele |
| Best Sets and Decorations Stefania Cella - The Great Beauty Giancarlo Basili - Those Happy Years Marco Dentici - Salvo Marta Maffucci - Fasten Your Seatbelts Mauro Radaelli - Human Capital | Best Score Pivio e Aldo De Scalzi - Song'e Napule Pasquale Catalano - Fasten Your Seatbelts Lele Marchitelli - The Great Beauty Umberto Scipione - Sotto una buona stella Carlo Virzì - Human Capital |
| Best Original Song "A' verità" from Song'e Napule - Music and lyrics by Francesco Liccardo, Rosario Castagnola, Sarah Tartuffo, Alessandro Nelson Garofalo, performed by Franco Ricciardi "I'm Sorry" from Human Capital - Music and lyrics by Giacomo Vaccai, performed by Jackie O'S Farm "A malìa" from The Art of Happiness - Music and lyrics by Dario Sansone, performed by Foja "Tosami lady" from The Mafia Kills Only in Summer - Music and lyrics by Santi Pulvirenti, performed by Domenico Centamore "Smetto quando voglio" from I Can Quit Whenever I Want - Music and lyrics by Domenico "Scarda" Scardamaglio "Dove cadono i fulmini" from Una piccola impresa meridionale - Music, lyrics and performed Erica Mou | Best Editing Cecilia Zanuso - Human Capital Giogiò Franchini - Miele Patrizio Marone - Fasten Your Seatbelts Cristiano Travaglioli - The Great Beauty Gianni Vezzosi - I Can Quit Whenever I Want |
| Best Sound Roberto Mozzarelli - Human Capital Maurizio Argenterie - Those Happy Years Angelo Bonanni - I Can Quit Whenever I Want Emanuele Cecere - The Great Beauty Marco Grillo, Mirco Pantalla - Fasten Your Seatbelts | Best Costumes Daniela Ciancio - The Great Beauty Maria Rita Barbera - Those Happy Years Alessandro Lai - Fasten Your Seatbelts Bettina Pontiggia - Human Capital Cristiana Ricceri - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer |
| Best Visual Effects Rodolfo Migliari, Luca Della Grotta for Chromatica - The Great Beauty EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani - Human Capital Paola Trisoglio, Stefano Marinoni for Visualogie - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer Rodolfo Migliari for Chromatica - I Can Quit Whenever I Want Palantir Digital - Song'e Napule | Best Make-up Artist Maurizio Silvi - The Great Beauty Dalia Colli - The Mafia Kills Only in Summer Paola Gattabrusi - Those Happy Years Caroline Phillipponnat - Human Capital Ermanno Spera - Fasten Your Seatbelts |
| Best Hairstylist Aldo Signoretti - The Great Beauty Francesca De Simone - Fasten Your Seatbelts Stéphane Desmarez - Human Capital Massimo Gattabrusi - Those Happy Years Sharim Sabatini - The Chair of Happiness | Best Documentary Feature Stop the Pounding Heart – directed by Roberto Minervini Dal profondo – directed by Valentina Pedicini Il segreto –directed by Cyop & Kaf In utero Srebrenica – directed by Giuseppe Carrieri L'amministratore – directed by Vincenzo Marra Sacro GRA – directed by Gianfranco Rosi |
| Best Short Film 37°4 S – directed by Adriano Valerio A passo d'uomo – directed by Giovanni Aloi Bella di notte – directed by Paolo Zucca Lao – directed by Gabriele Sabatino Nardis Non sono nessuno – directed by Francesco Segrè | Best European Film Philomena – directed by Stephen Frears Ida – directed by Paweł Pawlikowski Blue Is the Warmest Colour – directed by Abdellatif Kechiche Still Life – directed by Uberto Pasolini Venus in Fur – directed by Roman Polański |
| Best Foreign Film The Grand Budapest Hotel – directed by Wes Anderson 12 Years a Slave – directed by Steve McQueen American Hustle – directed by David O. Russell Blue Jasmine – directed by Woody Allen The Wolf of Wall Street – directed by Martin Scorsese | David Youth Award The Mafia Kills Only in Summer – Pierfrancesco Diliberto Human Capital – Paolo Virzì The Great Beauty – Paolo Sorrentino Sole a catinelle – Gennaro Nunziante Blame Freud – Paolo Genovese |
| Special David Awards Sophia Loren Andrea Occhipinti Marco Bellocchio (career award) Carlo Mazzacurati (career award) (posthumous) Riz Ortolani (career award) (posthumous) |