# David di Donatello for Best Film

The David di Donatello Award for Best Film (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior film) is one of the David di Donatello awards presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI). The award recognizes the most outstanding Italian film theatrically released in Italy during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was first given in 1970, and became competitive in 1981.
Nominees and winners are selected via runoff voting by all the members of the Accademia.

## Winners and nominees

Below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by other nominees.

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 1969/70 (15th) |
| 1969/70 (15th) | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Marina Cicogna and Daniele Senatore |
| 1969/70 (15th) | Metello | Gianni Hecht Lucari |
| 1970/71 (16th) | | |
| 1970/71 (16th) | The Conformist | Maurizio Lodi-Fè |
| 1970/71 (16th) | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Artur Brauner, Arthur Cohn, and Gianni Hecht Lucari |
| 1970/71 (16th) | Waterloo | Dino De Laurentiis |
| 1971/72 (17th) | | |
| 1971/72 (17th) | This Kind of Love | Mario Cecchi Gori |
| 1972/73 (18th) | | |
| 1972/73 (18th) | Alfredo, Alfredo | Guglielmo Colonna |
| 1972/73 (18th) | Ludwig | Ugo Santalucia and Dieter Geissler |
| 1973/74 (19th) | | |
| 1973/74 (19th) | Amarcord | Franco Cristaldi |
| 1973/74 (19th) | Bread and Chocolate | Maurizio Lodi-Fè |
| 1974/75 (20th) | | |
| 1974/75 (20th) | Conversation Piece | Giovanni Bertolucci |
| 1974/75 (20th) | Drama of the Rich | Giovanni Di Clemente |
| 1975/76 (21st) | | |
| 1975/76 (21st) | Illustrious Corpses | Alberto Grimaldi |
| 1976/77 (22nd) | | |
| 1976/77 (22nd) | An Average Little Man | Aurelio De Laurentiis and Luigi De Laurentiis |
| 1976/77 (22nd) | The Desert of the Tartars | Michelle de Broca, Bahman Farmanara, Mario Gallo, Enzo Giulioli, Jacques Perrin, and Giorgio Silvagni |
| 1977/78 (23rd) | | |
| 1977/78 (23rd) | In the Name of the Pope King | Franco Committeri |
| 1977/78 (23rd) | Il prefetto di ferro | Gianni Hecht Lucari |
| 1978/79 (24th) | | |
| 1978/79 (24th) | Christ Stopped at Eboli | Nicola Carraro and Franco Cristaldi |
| 1978/79 (24th) | To Forget Venice | Franco Brusati and Claudio Grassetti |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 1980/81 (26th) |
| 1980/81 (26th) | I'm Starting from Three | Mauro Berardi |
| 1980/81 (26th) | Passion of Love | Franco Committeri |
| 1980/81 (26th) | Three Brothers | Giorgio Nocella and Antonio Macrì |
| 1981/82 (27th) | | |
| 1981/82 (27th) | Talcum Powder | Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| 1981/82 (27th) | Il marchese del Grillo | Renzo Rossellini |
| 1981/82 (27th) | Tales of Ordinary Madness | Jacqueline Ferreri |
| 1982/83 (28th) | | |
| 1982/83 (28th) | The Night of the Shooting Stars | Giuliani G. De Negri |
| 1982/83 (28th) | Blow to the Heart | Enzo Porcelli |
| 1982/83 (28th) | That Night in Varennes | Renzo Rossellini |
| 1983/84 (29th) | | |
| 1983/84 (29th) | And the Ship Sails On | Franco Cristaldi |
| 1983/84 (29th) | Le Bal | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina and Giorgio Silvagni |
| 1983/84 (29th) | Where's Picone? | Antonio Avati and Gianni Minervini |
| 1984/85 (30th) | | |
| 1984/85 (30th) | Carmen | Marcel Dassault, Patrice Ledoux, and Alain Poiré |
| 1984/85 (30th) | Kaos | Giuliani G. De Negri |
| 1984/85 (30th) | A Proper Scandal | Fulvio Lucisano |
| 1985/86 (31st) | | |
| 1985/86 (31st) | Let's Hope It's a Girl | Giovanni Di Clemente |
| 1985/86 (31st) | Ginger and Fred | Alberto Grimaldi and Heinz Bibo |
| 1985/86 (31st) | The Mass Is Ended | Achille Manzotti |
| 1986/87 (32nd) | | |
| 1986/87 (32nd) | The Family | Franco Committeri |
| 1986/87 (32nd) | Christmas Present | Antonio Avati |
| 1986/87 (32nd) | A Tale of Love | Carlo Tuzii |
| 1987/88 (33rd) | | |
| 1987/88 (33rd) | The Last Emperor§ | Jeremy Thomas |
| 1987/88 (33rd) | Dark Eyes | Carlo Cucchi and Silvia D'Amico Bendicò |
| 1987/88 (33rd) | Intervista | Ibrahim Moussa |
| 1988/89 (34th) | | |
| 1988/89 (34th) | The Legend of the Holy Drinker | Roberto Cicutto and Vincenzo Di Leo |
| 1988/89 (34th) | Cinema Paradiso | Franco Cristaldi and Giovanna Romagnoli |
| 1988/89 (34th) | Francesco | Roberta Cadringher, Giulio Scanni, and Jost Steinbruchel |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 1989/90 (35th) |
| 1989/90 (35th) | Open Doors | Angelo Rizzoli Jr. |
| 1989/90 (35th) | Dark Illness | Giovanni Di Clemente |
| 1989/90 (35th) | Red Wood Pigeon | Nella Banfi, Angelo Barbagallo, and Nanni Moretti |
| 1989/90 (35th) | The Story of Boys & Girls | Antonio Avati, Pupi Avati, Emanuela Guzzardi, Giorgio Leopardi, and Gianfranco Piccioli |
| 1989/90 (35th) | The Voice of the Moon | Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| 1990/91 (36th) | | |
| 1990/91 (36th) | Mediterraneo | Silvio Berlusconi, Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and Gianni Minervini |
| 1990/91 (36th) | Towards Evening | Guido De Laurentiis and Leo Pescarolo |
| 1990/91 (36th) | The House of Smiles | Augusto Caminito and Giovanna Romagnoli |
| 1990/91 (36th) | The Station | Domenico Procacci |
| 1990/91 (36th) | The Yes Man | Angelo Barbagallo and Nanni Moretti |
| 1991/92 (37th) | | |
| 1991/92 (37th) | The Stolen Children | Stefano Mufanò and Angelo Rizzoli Jr. |
| 1991/92 (37th) | Damned the Day I Met You | Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| 1991/92 (37th) | The Invisible Wall | Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and Maurizio Tedesco |
| 1992/93 (38th) | | |
| 1992/93 (38th) | The Great Pumpkin | Guido De Laurentiis, Fulvio Lucisano, and Leo Pescarolo |
| 1992/93 (38th) | The Escort | Claudio Bonivento |
| 1992/93 (38th) | Jonah Who Lived in the Whale | Gianna Bellavia, Elda Ferri, Áron Sipos, and Dénes Szekeres |
| 1993/94 (39th) | | |
| 1993/94 (39th) | Caro diario | Nella Banfi, Angelo Barbagallo, and Nanni Moretti |
| 1993/94 (39th) | For Love, Only for Love | Aurelio De Laurentiis |
| 1993/94 (39th) | Let's Not Keep in Touch | Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| 1994/95 (40th) | | |
| 1994/95 (40th) | La scuola | Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| 1994/95 (40th) | Nasty Love | Angelo Curti, Andrea Occhipinti, and Kermit Smith |
| 1994/95 (40th) | Il Postino: The Postman* | Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, and Gaetano Daniele |
| 1995/96 (41st) | | |
| 1995/96 (41st) | August Vacation | Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori |
| 1995/96 (41st) | Celluloide | Pio Angeletti and Adriano De Micheli |
| 1995/96 (41st) | The Star Maker | Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori |
| 1995/96 (41st) | Stealing Beauty | Jeremy Thomas |
| 1996/97 (42nd) | | |
| 1996/97 (42nd) | The Truce | Véra Belmont, Guido De Laurentiis, and Leo Pescarolo |
| 1996/97 (42nd) | The Cyclone | Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori |
| 1996/97 (42nd) | Marianna Ucrìa | Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Elda Ferri, and Rita Cecchi Gori |
| 1996/97 (42nd) | My Generation | Maurizio Tini |
| 1996/97 (42nd) | Nirvana | Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Rita Cecchi Gori, and Maurizio Totti |
| 1997/98 (43rd) | | |
| 1997/98 (43rd) | Life Is Beautiful* | Gianluigi Braschi and Elda Ferri |
| 1997/98 (43rd) | Ovosodo | Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Rita Cecchi Gori |
| 1997/98 (43rd) | April | Angelo Barbagallo and Nanni Moretti |
| 1998/99 (44th) | | |
| 1998/99 (44th) | Not of this World | Lionello Cerri |
| 1998/99 (44th) | Besieged | Massimo Cortesi |
| 1998/99 (44th) | The Legend of 1900 | Francesco Tornatore |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 1999/00 (45th) |
| 1999/00 (45th) | Bread and Tulips | Daniele Maggioni |
| 1999/00 (45th) | Canone inverso | Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| 1999/00 (45th) | Olympic Garage | Marco Bechis, Amedeo Pagani, and Enrique Piñeyro |
| 2000/01 (46th) | | |
| 2000/01 (46th) | The Son's Room | Angelo Barbagallo, Federico Fabrizio, Vincenzo Galluzzo, Lorenzo Luccarini, and Nanni Moretti |
| 2000/01 (46th) | The Last Kiss | Domenico Procacci |
| 2000/01 (46th) | One Hundred Steps | Fabrizio Mosca |
| 2001/02 (47th) | | |
| 2001/02 (47th) | The Profession of Arms | Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini |
| 2001/02 (47th) | Burning in the Wind | Lionello Cerri and Luigi Musini |
| 2001/02 (47th) | Light of My Eyes | Lionello Cerri |
| 2002/03 (48th) | | |
| 2002/03 (48th) | Facing Windows | Tilde Corsi and Gianni Romoli |
| 2002/03 (48th) | The Embalmer | Domenico Procacci |
| 2002/03 (48th) | My Mother's Smile | Marco Bellocchio and Sergio Pelone |
| 2002/03 (48th) | Remember Me, My Love | Domenico Procacci |
| 2002/03 (48th) | Respiro | Domenico Procacci |
| 2003/04 (49th) | | |
| 2003/04 (49th) | The Best of Youth | Angelo Barbagallo and Donatella Botti |
| 2003/04 (49th) | Don't Move | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2003/04 (49th) | Good Morning, Night | Marco Bellocchio and Sergio Pelone |
| 2003/04 (49th) | I'm Not Scared | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, Maurizio Totti, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2003/04 (49th) | What Will Happen to Us? | Aurelio De Laurentiis |
| 2004/05 (50th) | | |
| 2004/05 (50th) | The Consequences of Love | Francesca Cima, Angelo Curti, Nicola Giuliano, and Domenico Procacci |
| 2004/05 (50th) | A Children's Story | Rosario Rinaldo |
| 2004/05 (50th) | Sacred Heart | Tilde Corsi and Gianni Romoli |
| 2004/05 (50th) | The Keys to the House | Enzo Porcelli |
| 2004/05 (50th) | Manual of Love | Aurelio De Laurentiis |
| 2005/06 (51st) | | |
| 2005/06 (51st) | The Caiman | Angelo Barbagallo and Nanni Moretti |
| 2005/06 (51st) | My Best Enemy | Aurelio De Laurentiis |
| 2005/06 (51st) | Notte prima degli esami | Federica Lucisano, Fulvio Lucisano, and Giannandrea Pecorelli |
| 2005/06 (51st) | Our Land | Domenico Procacci |
| 2006/07 (52nd) | | |
| 2006/07 (52nd) | The Unknown Woman | The Unknown Woman |
| 2006/07 (52nd) | Along the Ridge | Carlo Degli Esposti, Giorgio Magliulo, and Andrea Costantini |
| 2006/07 (52nd) | My Brother is an Only Child | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2006/07 (52nd) | Nuovomondo | Alexandre Mallet-Guy and Fabrizio Mosca |
| 2006/07 (52nd) | One Hundred Nails | Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini |
| 2007/08 (53rd) | | |
| 2007/08 (53rd) | The Girl by the Lake | Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano |
| 2007/08 (53rd) | Days and Clouds | Lionello Cerri |
| 2007/08 (53rd) | Quiet Chaos | Domenico Procacci |
| 2007/08 (53rd) | The Right Distance | Domenico Procacci |
| 2007/08 (53rd) | The Wind Blows Round | Simone Bachini, Mario Chemello, Giorgio Diritti, and Roberto Passuti |
| 2008/09 (54th) | | |
| 2008/09 (54th) | Gomorrah | Domenico Procacci |
| 2008/09 (54th) | Il Divo | Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, and Andrea Occhipinti |
| 2008/09 (54th) | Many Kisses Later | Federica Lucisano and Fulvio Lucisano |
| 2008/09 (54th) | We Can Do That | Andrea Rizzoli Jr. and Angelo Rizzoli Jr. |
| 2008/09 (54th) | Your Whole Life Ahead of You | Paolo Virzì |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 2009/10 (55th) |
| 2009/10 (55th) | The Man Who Will Come | Simone Bachini and Giorgio Diritti |
| 2009/10 (55th) | Baarìa | Tarak Ben Ammar |
| 2009/10 (55th) | The First Beautiful Thing | Marco Cohen, Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Carlo Virzì, and Paolo Virzì |
| 2009/10 (55th) | Loose Cannons | Domenico Procacci |
| 2009/10 (55th) | Vincere | Mario Gianani |
| 2010/11 (56th) | | |
| 2010/11 (56th) | Noi credevamo | Conchita Airoldi, Carlo Degli Esposti, and Giorgio Magliulo |
| 2010/11 (56th) | Basilicata Coast to Coast | Isabella Cocuzza, Mark Lombardo, Elisabetta Olmi, and Arturo Paglia |
| 2010/11 (56th) | Benvenuti al Sud | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, Francesca Longardi, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2010/11 (56th) | La nostra vita | Marco Chimenz, Fabio Conversi, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2010/11 (56th) | A Quiet Life | Fabrizio Mosca and Christer von Lindequist |
| 2011/12 (57th) | | |
| 2011/12 (57th) | Caesar Must Die | Grazia Volpi |
| 2011/12 (57th) | Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy | Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2011/12 (57th) | Terraferma | Marco Chimenz, Fabio Conversi, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2011/12 (57th) | This Must Be the Place | Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, and Andrea Occhipinti |
| 2011/12 (57th) | We Have a Pope | Jean Labadie, Nanni Moretti, and Domenico Procacci |
| 2012/13 (58th) | | |
| 2012/13 (58th) | The Best Offer | Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia |
| 2012/13 (58th) | Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood | Domenico Procacci |
| 2012/13 (58th) | Long Live Freedom | Angelo Barbagallo |
| 2012/13 (58th) | Me and You | Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli |
| 2012/13 (58th) | Siberian Education | Marco Chimenz, Gina Gardini, Giovanni Stabilini, and Riccardo Tozzi |
| 2013/14 (59th) | | |
| 2013/14 (59th) | Human Capital | Marco Cohen and Benedetto Habib |
| 2013/14 (59th) | The Chair of Happiness | Angelo Barbagallo |
| 2013/14 (59th) | The Great Beauty | Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano |
| 2013/14 (59th) | I Can Quit Whenever I Want | Andrea Paris, Domenico Procacci, and Matteo Rovere |
| 2013/14 (59th) | The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer | Fausto Brizzi, Mario Gianani, and Lorenzo Mieli |
| 2014/15 (60th) | | |
| 2014/15 (60th) | Black Souls | Luigi Musini and Olivia Musini |
| 2014/15 (60th) | Greenery Will Bloom Again | Luigi Musini and Elisabetta Olmi |
| 2014/15 (60th) | Hungry Hearts | Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli |
| 2014/15 (60th) | Leopardi | Carlo Degli Esposti, Margherita Murolo, and Nicola Serra |
| 2014/15 (60th) | Mia madre | Nanni Moretti and Domenico Procacci |
| 2015/16 (61st) | | |
| 2015/16 (61st) | Perfect Strangers | Marco Belardi |
| 2015/16 (61st) | Don't Be Bad | Paolo Bogna, Simone Isola, and Valerio Mastandrea |
| 2015/16 (61st) | Fire at Sea | Roberto Cicutto, Paolo Del Brocco, Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou, Donatella Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, and Martine Saada |
| 2015/16 (61st) | Tale of Tales | Matteo Garrone, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jean Labadie, and Jeremy Thomas |
| 2015/16 (61st) | Youth | Carlotta Calori, Francesca Cima, and Nicola Giuliano |
| 2016 (62nd) | | |
| 2016 (62nd) | Like Crazy | Marco Belardi |
| 2016 (62nd) | Fiore | Beppe Caschetto and Rita Rognoni |
| 2016 (62nd) | Indivisible | Attilio De Razza e Pierpaolo Verga |
| 2016 (62nd) | Italian Race | Domenico Procacci |
| 2016 (62nd) | Sweet Dreams | Beppe Caschetto |
| 2017 (63rd) | | |
| 2017 (63rd) | Love and Bullets | Carlo Macchitella and Manetti Bros. |
| 2017 (63rd) | A Ciambra | Paolo Carpignano, Jon Coplon, Christoph Daniel, Gwyn Sannia, Marc Schmidheiny, and Rodrigo Teixeira |
| 2017 (63rd) | Cinderella the Cat | Luciano Stella and Maria Carolina Terzi |
| 2017 (63rd) | Nico, 1988 | Valérie Bournonville, Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, and Joseph Rouschop |
| 2017 (63rd) | Tenderness | Agostino Saccá, Giuseppe Saccá, and Maria Grazia Saccá |
| 2018 (64th) | | |
| 2018 (64th) | Dogman | Paolo Del Brocco, Matteo Garrone, Jean Labadie, and Jeremy Thomas |
| 2018 (64th) | Call Me By Your Name* | Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, James Ivory, Marco Morabito, Howard Rosenman, Peter Spears, and Rodrigo Teixeira |
| 2018 (64th) | Euphoria | Viola Prestieri |
| 2018 (64th) | Happy as Lazzaro | Carlo Cresto-Dina, Gregory Gajos, Arthur Hallereau, Alexandra Henochsberg, Pierre-François Piet, Tiziana Soudani, and Michael Weber |
| 2018 (64th) | On My Skin | Luigi Musini, Olivia Musini, and Andrea Occhipinti |
| 2019 (65th) | | |
| 2019 (65th) | The Traitor | IBC Movie, Kavac Film, and Rai Cinema |
| 2019 (65th) | Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, and Rai Cinema |
| 2019 (65th) | Pinocchio | Archimede, Rai Cinema, and Le Pacte |
| 2019 (65th) | Piranhas | Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra |
| 2019 (65th) | The First King: Birth of an Empire | Groenlandia, Gapbusters, Rai Cinema and Roman Citizen |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Producer(s) |
| 2020 (66th) |
| 2020 (66th) | Hidden Away | Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra |
| 2020 (66th) | Bad Tales | Agostino Saccà, Giuseppe Saccà , Rai Cinema |
| 2020 (66th) | Hammamet | Agostino Saccà, Maria Grazia Saccà |
| 2020 (66th) | The Macaluso Sisters | Marica Stocchi, Marta Donzelli |
| 2020 (66th) | Miss Marx |
| 2021 (67th) |
| 2021 (67th) | The Hand of God | |
| 2021 (67th) | Ennio | |
| 2021 (67th) | Freaks Out | |
| 2021 (67th) | The Inner Cage | |
| 2021 (67th) | The King of Laughter |
| 2022 (68th) |
| 2022 (68th) | The Eight Mountains | |
| 2022 (68th) | Exterior Night | |
| 2022 (68th) | Lord of the Ants | |
| 2022 (68th) | Nostalgia | |
| 2022 (68th) | Strangeness | |
| 2023 (69th) | | |
| 2023 (69th) | Io capitano | |
| 2023 (69th) | A Brighter Tomorrow | |
| 2023 (69th) | La chimera | |
| 2023 (69th) | Kidnapped | |
| 2023 (69th) | There's Still Tomorrow | |