65th David di Donatello


The 65th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, honoured the best Italian films of 2019. The ceremony was hosted by presenter Carlo Conti on 8 May 2020. The awards ceremony was initially set for 3 April 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, the ceremony was held live at RAI Studios and broadcast by Rai 1 while the candidates were connected via video and answered the questions asked by the Carlo Conti from the studio.
The crime drama film The Traitor won six awards, including Best Film, out of eighteen nominations. Other winners included Pinocchio with five, The First King: Birth of an Empire with three, The Goddess of Fortune with two, and 5 is the Perfect Number, Bangla, Il flauto magico di Piazza Vittorio, Martin Eden, My Brother Chases Dinosaurs, Once Upon a Time... in Bethlehem, Parasite, Selfie and Timo's Winter with one.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger. The nominations were announced on 18 February 2020.

  • The First King: Birth of an Empire – Andrea Paris and Matteo Rovere, producers; Groenlandia, Rai Cinema, Roman Citizen and Gapbusters, production companies
  • *BanglaDomenico Procacci and Anna Maria Morelli, producers; TIMvision, production company
  • *Martin EdenPietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber and Viola Fügen, producers; Rai Cinema, production company
  • *PinocchioMatteo Garrone, Jean Labadie, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jeremy Thomas and Paolo Del Brocco, producers; Archimede, Rai Cinema and Le Pacte, production companies
  • *The Traitor – Beppe Caschetto, producer; IBC Movie, Kavac Film and Rai Cinema, production companies
  • Marco BellocchioThe Traitor
  • *Claudio GiovannesiPiranhas
  • *Matteo GarronePinocchio
  • *Matteo RovereThe First King: Birth of an Empire
  • *Pietro MarcelloMartin Eden
  • Phaim BhuyianBangla
  • *Carlo Sironi – Sole
  • *Igort5 Is the Perfect Number
  • *Leonardo D'Agostini – The Champion
  • *Marco D'AmoreThe Immortal
  • Pierfrancesco FavinoThe Traitor as Tommaso Buscetta
  • *Alessandro BorghiThe First King: Birth of an Empire as Remus
  • *Francesco Di LevaThe Mayor of Rione Sanità as Antonio Barracano
  • *Luca MarinelliMartin Eden as Martin Eden
  • *Toni Servillo5 Is the Perfect Number as Peppino Lo Cicero
  • Jasmine TrincaThe Goddess of Fortune as Annamaria
  • *Isabella RagoneseMy Brother Chases Dinosaurs as Katia
  • *Linda CaridiRemember? as Lei
  • *Lunetta SavinoRosa as Rosa
  • *Valeria Bruni TedeschiThe Summer House as Anna
  • *Valeria GolinoVolare as Elisa
  • Luigi Lo CascioThe Traitor as Salvatore Contorno
  • *Carlo Buccirosso5 Is the Perfect Number as Totò the Butcher
  • *Fabrizio FerracaneThe Traitor as Giuseppe Calò
  • *Roberto BenigniPinocchio as Geppetto
  • *Stefano AccorsiThe Champion as Valerio
  • Valeria Golino5 Is the Perfect Number as Rita
  • *Alida Baldari Calabria – Pinocchio as Fairy with Turquoise Hair
  • *Anna FerzettiTomorrow's a New Day as Paola
  • *Maria Amato – The Traitor as Melchiorra Buscetta
  • *Tania Garribba – The First King: Birth of an Empire as Satnei
  • The TraitorMarco Bellocchio, Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santella and Francesco Piccolo
  • *Bangla – Phaim Bhuiyan and Vanessa Picciarelli
  • *The First King: Birth of an Empire – Filippo Gravino, Francesca Manieri and Matteo Rovere
  • *The Goddess of Fortune – Gianni Romoli, Silvia Ranfagni and Ferzan Özpetek
  • *Remember?Valerio Mieli
  • Martin Eden – Maurizio Braucci and Pietro Marcello; based on the novel by Jack London
  • *The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily – Jean-Luc Fromental, Thomas Bidegain and Lorenzo Mattotti; based on the book by Dino Buzzati
  • *The Mayor of Rione SanitàMario Martone and Ippolita Di Majo; based on the play by Eduardo De Filippo
  • *PinocchioMatteo Garrone and Massimo Ceccherini; based on the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
  • *PiranhasClaudio Giovannesi, Roberto Saviano and Maurizio Braucci; based on the novel The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples by Roberto Saviano
  • The First King: Birth of an EmpireDaniele Ciprì
  • *Martin EdenFranco Di Giacomo
  • *Pinocchio – Nicolaj Brüel
  • *Remember?Daria D'Antonio
  • *The Traitor – Vladan Radovic
  • Pinocchio – Dimitri Capuani
  • *5 Is the Perfect Number – Nello Giorgetti
  • *The First King: Birth of an Empire – Tonino Zera
  • *Suspiria – Inbal Weinberg
  • *The Traitor – Andrea Castorina
  • Il flauto magico di Piazza VittorioOrchestra di Piazza Vittorio
  • *The First King: Birth of an EmpireAndrea Farri
  • *PinocchioDario Marianelli
  • *SuspiriaThom Yorke
  • *The TraitorNicola Piovani
  • "Che vita meravigliosa" from The Goddess of Fortune – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Diodato
  • *"Festa" from Bangla – Music by Aiello; Lyrics by Aiello and Shoshi Md Ziaul; Performed by Moonstar Studio
  • *"Rione Sanità" from The Mayor of Rione Sanità – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Ralph P
  • *"Suspirium" from Suspiria – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Thom Yorke
  • *"Un errore di distrazione" from The Guest – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Brunori Sas
  • The Traitor – Francesca Calvelli
  • *The First King: Birth of an Empire – Gianni Vezzosi
  • *Martin Eden – Aline Hervé and Fabrizio Federico
  • *The Mayor of Rione SanitàJacopo Quadri
  • *PinocchioMarco Spoletini
  • The First King: Birth of an Empire – Angelo Bonanni, Davide D'Onofrio, Mirko Perri, Mauro Eusepi and Michele Mazzucco
  • *5 Is the Perfect Number – Daniele Maraniello, Max Gobiet, Giuseppe D'Amato, Francesco Albertelli and Marcos Molina Jaime
  • *Martin Eden – Denny de Angelis, Simone Panetta, Stefano Grosso and Michael Kaczmarek
  • *The Traitor – Gaetano Carito, Adriano di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo Merafino, Lilio Rosato, Gianluca Basili and Francesco Tumminello
  • *Pinocchio – Maricetta Lombardo, Gianni Pallotto, Luca Novelli, Daniela Bassani and Stefano Grosso
  • PinocchioMassimo Cantini Parrini
  • *5 Is the Perfect Number – Nicoletta Taranta
  • *The First King: Birth of an Empire – Valentina Taviani
  • *Martin Eden – Andrea Cavalletto
  • *The Traitor – Daria Calvelli
  • PinocchioRodolfo Migliari and Theo Demeris
  • *5 Is the Perfect Number – Giuseppe Squillaci
  • *The First King: Birth of an Empire – Francesco Grisi and Gaia Bussolati
  • *Suspiria – Luca Saviotti
  • *The Traitor – Rodolfo Migliari
  • PinocchioDalia Colli and Mark Coulier
  • *5 Is the Perfect Number – Andreina Becagli
  • *The First King: Birth of an Empire – Roberto Pastore, Andrea Leanza, Valentina Visintin and Lorenzo Tamburini
  • *Suspiria – Fernanda Perez
  • *The TraitorDalia Colli and Lorenzo Tamburini
  • PinocchioFrancesco Pegoretti
  • *The First King: Birth of an Empire – Marzia Colomba
  • *Martin Eden – Daniela Tartari
  • *SuspiriaManolo García
  • *The Traitor – Alberta Giuliani
  • Selfie – Agostino Ferrente, director
  • *Citizen Rosi – Didi Gnocchi and Carolina Rosi, directors
  • *Fellini Never-Ending – Eugenio Cappuccio, director
  • *The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to BeFranco Maresco, director
  • *Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto - Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari – Simone Isola and Fausto Trombetta, directors
  • Timo's Winter – Giulio Mastromauro, director
  • *Brother – Beppe Tufarulo, director
  • *My Sister – Saverio Cappiello, director
  • *Our Time – Veronica Spedicati, director
  • *Unfolded – Cristina Picchi, director
  • ParasiteBong Joon-ho, director
  • *Green BookPeter Farrelly, director
  • *JokerTodd Phillips, director
  • *An Officer and a SpyRoman Polanski, director
  • *Once Upon a Time in HollywoodQuentin Tarantino, director
  • My Brother Chases Dinosaurs – Stefano Cipani, director
  • *The Goddess of FortuneFerzan Özpetek, director
  • *Into the LabyrinthDonato Carrisi, director
  • *Martin EdenPietro Marcello, director
  • *The TraitorMarco Bellocchio, director
  • Franca Valeri
  • Once Upon a Time... in Bethlehem, directed by Ficarra e Picone for garnering 2,363,303 spectators
  • Films with multiple nominations and awards

    NominationsFilm
    18The Traitor
    15The First King: Birth of an Empire
    15Pinocchio
    11Martin Eden
    95 Is the Perfect Number
    6Suspiria
    4Bangla
    4The Goddess of Fortune
    4The Mayor of Rione Sanità
    3Piranhas
    3Ricordi?
    2The Champion
    2My Brother Chases Dinosaurs

    AwardsFilm
    6The Traitor
    5Pinocchio
    3The First King: Birth of an Empire
    2The Goddess of Fortune