Yes, I recognize the irony.
I show nothing but disdain for the American Academy Awards (the winners act like they’ve cured cancer or something) and yet I am bubbling with excitement over the Italian ones, The David di Donatello Awards, scheduled to be announced tomorrow in Rome – magari ci fossi io!
The Davids have their own haters: Il Fatto Quotidiano, an Italian daily newspaper, said that Italy’s “Oscars” are riddled with nepotism and corruption and in urgent need of drastic overhaul.
Whatever.
I’m on the edge of my seat, literally; I wish you could see me right now, waiting to hear the results.
The David di Donatello Award was named after Donatello’s David and is a film award presented each year by L’accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI) and were first given in Rome in the spring of 1955. They were created by a cultural club to honor the best of each year’s Italian and foreign films, similar to the American Oscars. The prizes are awarded primarily to Italian films, with a category dedicated to foreign language films.
Among the first directors to win the awards were Federico Fellini for Le Notti di Cabiria in 1958 and for La Dolce Vita in 1961 and Vittorio De Sica for I Sequestrati di Altona in 1964.
Last year, it was Daniele Luchetti for La Nostra Vita. Who will be this year’s director to join the ranks of the best Italian directors of all time?
I Love Italian Everything 