I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a year in which the list of Italian movies with the most awards is so out of sync with the list of Italian movies that were the biggest at the box office. Everyone saw I Soliti Idioti and nobody saw Cesare Deve Morire. Che vergogna!
Italian Films Most Presented At Film Festival and Most Awarded in 2012
- Cesare deve Morire – Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani – 105 festivals, 25 awards. box office € 738.061
- Romanzo di una Strage – Marco Tullio Giordana – 47 festivals, 20 awards box office € 2.069.000
- Diaz:Non Pulire Questo Sangue – Daniele Vicari – 63 festivals, 10 awards, box office € 1.943.843
- Magnifica Presenza – Ferzan Ozpetek – 41 festivals 17 prizes, box office € 3.180.000
- L’Intervallo – Leonardo Di Costanzo – 25 festivals, 11 prizes, box office € 96.896
- Reality – Matteo Garrone – 43 prizes, 5 awards, box office € 1.981.000
- ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards – Stefano Sollima – 26 festivals, 10 awards, box office € 2.931.000
- Posti in Piedi in Paradiso – Carlo Verdone – 31 festivals, 7 awards, 52 box office € 9.274.000
- Benvenuti al Nord – Luca Miniero – 31 festivals, 3 awards, 40 box office € 27.178.000
- Ciliegine -Laura Morante – 29 festivals, 2 awards 35, box office € 717.000
Italian Films With The Biggest Box Office Numbers in the 2011/2012 Season
- Benvenuti al Nord – Luca Miniero – € 27.178.307
- Immaturi – Il viaggio – Paolo Genovese – € 11.798.091
- Vacanze di Natale a Cortina – Neri Parenti – € 11.703.740
- I soliti idioti – Enrico Lando – € 10.515.957
- Finalmente la felicità – Leonardo Pieraccioni – € 10.323.224
- La peggior settimana della mia vita – Alessandro Genovesi – € 9.662.843
- Posti in piedi in paradiso – Carlo Verdone – € 9.274.031
- Com’è bello far l’amore – Fausto Brizzi – € 6.878.159
- This Must Be the Place – Paolo Sorrentino – € 6.094.203
- Anche se è amore non si vede – Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone – € 6.001.709
Tomorrow : The best of 2012 (no matter what the numbers or the awards say!).
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