David di Donatello for Best Costumes
The David di Donatello for Best Costumes, known as the David di Donatello per la migliore costumista prior to 2023, is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of film costume designers who have worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. It was first presented during the 1981 edition of the David di Donatello award show.
Winners and nominees
Winners are indicated in bold.1980s
1981Piero Tosi – The Lady of the Camellias1982Gianna Gissi – Il marchese del Grillo
- Luca Sabatelli – Portrait of a Woman, Nude
- Enzo Bulgarelli – Forest of Love
- Nicoletta Ercole – The Story of Piera
- Lucia Mirisola – State buoni se potete
- Lina Nerli Taviani – The Night of the Shooting Stars
- Ezio Altieri – Le Bal
- Maurizio Millenotti – And the Ship Sails On
- Lina Nerli Taviani – Kaos
- Mario Carlini – A Proper Scandal
- Gino Persico – Camorra
- Aldo Buti – The Venetian Woman
1988James Acheson and Ugo Pericoli – The Last Emperor
- Nanà Cecchi – The Gold Rimmed Glasses
- Carlo Diappi – Dark Eyes
1990s
1990Gianna Gissi – Open Doors- Milena Canonero and Alberto Verso – The Bachelor
- Maurizio Millenotti – The Voice of the Moon
- Danda Ortona – Street Kids
- Graziella Virgili – The Story of Boys & Girls
- Odette Nicoletti – Captain Fracassa's Journey
- Francesco Panni – Mediterraneo
- Antonella Berardi – The Amusements of Private Life
- Lina Nerli Taviani – The Sun Also Shines at Night
- Enrica Barbano – The Wicked
- Gianna Gissi – The Stolen Children
- Lina Nerli Taviani – Fiorile
- Sissi Parravicini – Magnificat
1995Olga Berlutti – Farinelli
- Elisabetta Beraldo – Sostiene Pereira
- Moidele Bickel – La Reine Margot
- Beatrice Bordone – The Star Maker
- Luciano Sagoni – Celluloide
- Patrizia Chericoni and Florence Emir – Nirvana
- Lina Nerli Taviani – The Elective Affinities
- Francesca Sartori – The Prince of Homburg
- Alberto Verso – The Truce
1999Maurizio Millenotti – The Legend of 1900
- Gianna Gissi – The Way We Laughed
- Gino Persico – ''Ferdinando and Carolina''
2000s
2000Sergio Ballo – The Nanny- Alfonsina Lettieri – Canone inverso
- Lucia Mirisola – La Carbonara
- Maurizio Millenotti – Malèna
- Odette Nicoletti – Unfair Competition
- Nanà Cecchi – The Knights of the Quest
- Maria Rita Barbera – Light of My Eyes
- Silvia Nebiolo – Burning in the Wind
- Mario Carlini and Francesco Crivellini – Incantato
- Elena Mannini – A Journey Called Love
- Francesca Sartori – The Soul Keeper
- Andrea Viotti – El Alamein: The Line of Fire
- Gemma Mascagni – What Will Happen to Us
- Elisabetta Montaldo – The Best of Youth
- Silvia Nebiolo – Agata and the Storm
- Isabella Rizza – Don't Move
- Maria Rita Barbera – The Life That I Want
- Catia Dottori – Sacred Heart
- Gianna Gissi – An Italian Romance
- Gemma Mascagni – Manual of Love
- Francesco Crivellini – The Second Wedding Night
- Annalisa Giacci – Fuoco su di me
- Tatiana Romanoff – My Best Enemy
- Lina Nerli Taviani – The Caiman
- Maurizio Millenotti – Napoleon and Me
- Nicoletta Ercole – The Unknown Woman
- Mariarita Barbera – My Brother Is an Only Child
- Lina Nerli Taviani – The Lark Farm
- Ortensia De Francesco – Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
- Catia Dottori – Hotel Meina
- Maurizio Millenotti – Parlami d'amore
- Silvia Nebiolo and Patrizia Mazzon – Days and Clouds
- Alessandra Toesca – Quiet Chaos
- Alessandra Cardini – Gomorrah
- Mario Carlini and Francesco Crivellini – Giovanna's Father
- Daniela Ciancio – Il divo
- Lia Morandini – ''Caravaggio''
2010s
2010Sergio Ballo – Vincere- Luigi Bonanno – Baarìa
- Lia Francesca Morandini – The Man Who Will Come
- Gabriella Pescucci – The First Beautiful Thing
- Alessandro Lai – Loose Cannons
- Alfonsina Lettieri – Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio
- Nanà Cecchi – Christine Cristina
- Francesca Sartori – La Passione
- Roberto Chiocchi – Angel of Evil
- Rossano Marchi – Kryptonite!
- Alessandro Lai – Magnificent Presence
- Francesca Livia Sartori – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
- Karen Patch – This Must Be the Place
- Patrizia Chericoni – Siberian Education
- Grazia Colombini – It Was the Son
- Alessandro Lai – Apartment in Athens
- Roberta Vecchi and Francesca Vecchi – Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood
- Maria Rita Barbera – Those Happy Years
- Alessandro Lai – Fasten Your Seatbelts
- Bettina Pontiggia – Human Capital
- Cristiana Ricceri – The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
- Marina Roberti – Black Souls
- Alessandro Lai – Latin Lover
- Lina Nerli Taviani – Wondrous Boccaccio
- Andrea Cavalletto – Greenery Will Bloom Again
- Gemma Mascagni – The Correspondence
- Mary Montalto – They Call Me Jeeg
- Chiara Ferrantini – Don't Be Bad
- Carlo Poggioli – Youth
- Cristiana Riccieri – At War with Love
- Catia Dottori – Like Crazy
- Beatrice Giannini and Elisabetta Antico – La stoffa dei sogni
- Cristina Laparola – Italian Race
- Nicoletta Taranta – Agadah
- Anna Lombardi – Brutti e cattivi
- Alessandro Lai – Napoli velata
- Giulia Piersanti – Call Me by Your Name
- Massimo Cantini Parrini – Dogman
- Loredana Buscemi – Happy as Lazzaro
- Carlo Poggioli – ''Loro''
2020s
2020Massimo Cantini Parrini – Pinocchio- Nicoletta Taranta – 5 Is the Perfect Number
- Valentina Taviani – The First King: Birth of an Empire
- Daria Calvelli – The Traitor
- Andrea Cavalletto – ''Martin Eden''