Francesco Sossai’s The Last One For The Road (Le Città di Pianura) has emerged as the frontrunner at Italy’s David di Donatello awards with 16 nominations.
The comedy-drama, which world premiered last year in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, centres on a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains by two broke, bar-hopping fiftysomethings and a drifting architecture student.
Just behind is Paolo Sorrentino’s political drama La Grazia with 14 nominations, and Silvio Soldini’s The Tasters, about women forced to taste Hitler’s food to check for poison, with 13 nominations.
Pietro Marcello’s biopic Duse, Mario Martone’s biographical drama Fuori and Gabriele Mainetti’s martial arts movie Forbidden City are tied on eight nominations each, while Damiano Michieletto’s Venice-set musical drama Primavera has seven nods.
Five films are shortlisted in the best film category: Fuori, La Grazia, The Tasters, The Last One For The Road and Paolo Virzì’s Five Seconds.
Mario Martone, Gabriele Mainetti, Paolo Sorrentino, Silvio Soldini and Francesco Sossai are each nominated for the best director prize.
The best actor category has shortlisted Valerio Mastandrea for Five Seconds, Claudio Santamaria for Il Nibbio, Toni Servillo for La Grazia, and Pierpaolo Capovilla and Sergio Romano for The Last One For The Road.
The best actress nominees are Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for Duse, Barbara Ronchi for Elisa, Valeria Golino for Fuori, Aurora Quattrocchi for Gioia Mia, Anna Ferzetti for La Grazia and Tecla Insolia for Primavera.
Competing for the best international film prize are Walter Salles I’m Still Here, Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Jafar Panahi’s A Simple Accident and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.
The nominations are for films released in Italian cinemas from January 1 to December 31, 2025.
The awards ceremony for the 71st edition of the David di Donatello will take place on May 6 at Cinecittà Studios.
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