The 57th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 4 May 2012.
Winners and nominees
Caesar Must Die – directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani We Have a Pope – directed by Nanni Moretti Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy – directed by Marco Tullio Giordana Terraferma – directed by Emanuele Crialese This Must Be the Place – directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Grazia Volpi – Caesar Must Die Nanni Moretti, Domenico Procacci – We Have a Pope Francesco Bonsembiante – Shun Li and the Poet Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Nicola Giuliano, Andrea Occhipinti, Francesca Cima – This Must Be the Place
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani – Caesar Must Die Nanni Moretti – We Have a Pope Ferzan Özpetek – Magnificent Presence Marco Tullio Giordana – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Emanuele Crialese – Terraferma Paolo Sorrentino – This Must Be the Place Francesco Bruni – Easy! Stefano Sollima – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards Alice Rohrwacher – Heavenly Body Andrea Segre – Shun Li and the Poet Guido Lombardi – Là-bas: A Criminal Education Michel Piccoli – We Have a Pope Fabrizio Bentivoglio – Easy! Elio Germano – Magnificent Presence Marco Giallini – A Flat for Three Valerio Mastandrea – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Zhao Tao – Shun Li and the Poet Valeria Golino – Kryptonite! Claudia Gerini – Il mio domani Micaela Ramazzotti – A Flat for Three Donatella Finocchiaro – Terraferma Pierfrancesco Favino – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Giuseppe Battiston – Shun Li and the Poet Marco Giallini – ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards Fabrizio Gifuni – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Renato Scarpa – We Have a Pope Michela Cescon – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Barbora Bobuľová – Easy! Anita Caprioli – Heavenly Body Cristiana Capotondi – Kryptonite! Margherita Buy – We Have a Pope Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello – This Must Be the Place Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Fabio Cavalli – Caesar Must Die Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Federica Pontremoli – We Have a Pope Marco Tullio Giordana, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Francesco Bruni – Easy! Luca Bigazzi – This Must Be the Place Paolo Carnera – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards Simone Zampagni – Caesar Must Die Alessandro Pesci – We Have a Pope Roberto Forza – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Paola Bizzarri – We Have a Pope Francesco Frigeri – The Entrepreneur Andrea Crisanti – Magnificent Presence Giancarlo Basili – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Stefania Cella – This Must Be the Place
David Byrne – This Must Be the Place Umberto Scipione – Benvenuti al Nord Giuliano Taviani, Carmelo Travia – Caesar Must Die Franco Piersanti – We Have a Pope Pasquale Catalano – Magnificent Presence
"If It Falls, It Falls" from This Must Be the Place – Composed by David Byrne (music) and Will Oldham (lyrics), performed by Michael Brunnock – "Sometimes" from Benvenuti al Nord – Composed by Umberto Scipione and Alessia Scipione, performed by Alessia Scipione – "Gitmem daha" from Magnificent Presence Sezen Aksu, Pasquale Catalano and Yildirim Turker, performed by Sezen Aksu "Therese" from A Flat for Three – Composed by Gaetano Curreri, Andrea Fornili and Angelica Caronia, performed by Angelica Ponti "Scialla!" from Easy! – Composed and performed by Amir Issaa Roberto Perpignani – Caesar Must Die Patrizio Marone – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards Esmeralda Calabria – We Have a Pope Francesca Calvelli – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Cristiano Travaglioli – This Must Be the Place Benito Alchimede, Brando Mosca – Caesar Must Die Gilberto Martinelli – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards Alessandro Zanon – We Have a Pope Fulgenzio Ceccon – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Ray Cross, William Sarokin – This Must Be the Place Lina Nerli Taviani – We Have a Pope Rossano Marchi – Kryptonite! Alessandro Lai – Magnificent Presence Francesca Livia Sartori – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Karen Patch – This Must Be the Place Stefano Marinoni, Paola Trisoglio for Visualogie – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Palantir Digital Media – The Arrival of Wang Mario Zanot for Storyteller – We Have a Pope Stefano Marinoni and Paola Trisoglio for Visualogie, Rodolfo Migliari for Chromatica – This Must Be the Place Rainbow CGI – The Last Man on Earth Luisa Abel – This Must Be the Place Manlio Rocchetti – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards Maurizio Fazzini – Kryptonite! Ermanno Spera – Magnificent Presence Enrico Iacoponi – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Kim Santantonio – This Must Be the Place Carlo Barucci – We Have a Pope Mauro Tamagnini – Kryptonite! Francesca De Simone – Magnificent Presence Ferdinando Merolla – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy Tahrir Liberation Square – directed by Stefano Savona The Castle – directed by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti Lasciando la baia del re – directed by Claudia Cipriani Pasta nera – directed by Alessandro Piva Polvere – Il grande processo dell'amianto – directed by Niccolò Bruna and Andrea Prandstraller Zavorra – directed by Vincenzo Mineo Dell'ammazzare il maiale – directed by Simone Massi Ce l'hai un minuto? – directed by Alessandro Bardani and Luca Di Prospero Cusutu n' coddu – directed by Giovanni La Pàrola L'estate che non viene – directed by Pasquale Marino Tiger Boy – directed by Gabriele Mainetti The Intouchables – directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache Carnage – directed by Roman Polański Melancholia – directed by Lars von Trier Le Havre – directed by Aki Kaurismäki The Artist – directed by Michel Hazanavicius
A Separation – directed by Asghar Farhadi Drive – directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Hugo (Hugo) – directed by Martin Scorsese The Ides of March – directed by George Clooney The Tree of Life – directed by Terrence Malick
Easy! – directed by Francesco Bruni
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