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David di Donatello Awards

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    David

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    Best Actor (Migliore Attore)

    • Adriano Celentano
      Winner
      • Adriano Celentano
      • Mani di velluto

    Best Actress (Migliore Attrice)

    • Virna Lisi
      Winner
      • Virna Lisi
      • The Cricket

    Best Director (Migliore Regia)

    • Gillo Pontecorvo at an event for Burn! (1969)
      Winner
      • Gillo Pontecorvo
      • Ogro
      Tied with Marco Bellocchio for A Leap in the Dark (1980).
    • Marco Bellocchio in Dormant Beauty (2012)
      Winner
      • Marco Bellocchio
      • A Leap in the Dark
      Tied with Gillo Pontecorvo for Ogro (1979).

    Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)

    • Dustin Hoffman
      Winner
      • Dustin Hoffman
      • Kramer vs. Kramer
      Tied with Jack Lemmon for The China Syndrome (1979).
    • Jack Lemmon
      Winner
      • Jack Lemmon
      • The China Syndrome
      Tied with Dustin Hoffman for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).

    Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera)

    • Isabelle Huppert at an event for In Another Country (2012)
      Winner
      • Isabelle Huppert
      • The Lacemaker

    Best Foreign Director (Migliore Regista Straniero)

    • Francis Ford Coppola
      Winner
      • Francis Ford Coppola
      • Apocalypse Now

    Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Kramer vs. Kramer

      7.8 (162K)
      Stanley R. Jaffe(producer)

    Best Foreign Music (Migliore Musica Straniera)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Movie Movie

      6.4 (1.4K)
      Ralph Burns

    Best Foreign Screenplay (Migliore Sceneggiatura Straniera)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Just Tell Me What You Want

      5.4 (790)
      Jay Presson Allen

    Best Production (Migliore Produzione)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mani di velluto

      6.4 (1.5K)
      Tied with Don Giovanni (1979).
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Don Giovanni

      7.5 (1.4K)
      Tied with Mani di velluto (1979).

    Special David

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    • Claudine Auger, Janet Agren, Claude Brasseur, Silvia Dionisio, and Enrico Montesano in Lobster for Breakfast (1979)
      Stefania D'Amario, Claudio Cassinelli, Edwige Fenech, and Enrico Montesano in The Good Thief (1980)
      Qua la mano (1980)
      Winners
      • Lobster for Breakfast
      • The Good Thief
      • Qua la mano
      Enrico Montesano
      For his performance.
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Marriage of Maria Braun

      7.7 (16K)
      Hanna Schygulla
      For her performance.
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Un sacco bello

      7.2 (3K)
      Carlo Verdone
      To a newcomer.
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Kramer vs. Kramer

      7.8 (162K)
      Justin Henry
      To the supporting actor of the movie.

    Career David

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    • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
      Winner
      • Suso Cecchi D'Amico
    • Ray Stark in Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (2000)
      Winner
      • Ray Stark

    European David

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Yanks

      6.4 (3.9K)
      John Schlesinger

    Luchino Visconti Award

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    • Andrei Tarkovsky
      Winner
      • Andrei Tarkovsky

    Also known as

    • Premi David di Donatello

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    Event date

    July 26, 1980

    Event location

    Italy

    Event links

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