David di Donatello for Best Production Design
The David di Donatello for Best Production Design, known as the David di Donatello per il miglior scenografo prior to 2018, is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of film production 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. Since 2021, the award is shared with the set decorators.
Winners and nominees
Winners are indicated in bold.1980s
1981Mario Garbuglia – The Lady of the Camellias1982Lorenzo Baraldi – Il marchese del Grillo
- Andrea Crisanti – Talcum Powder
- Dante Ferretti – Tales of Ordinary Madness
- Lorenzo Baraldi – Portrait of a Woman, Nude
- Marco Ferreri – The Story of Piera
- Gianni Sbarra – The Night of the Shooting Stars
- Luciano Ricceri – Le Bal
- Elena Ricci Poccetto – Where's Picone?
- Francesco Bronzi – Kaos
- Enrico Fiorentini – A Proper Scandal
1987Dante Ferretti – The Name of the Rose
1988Bruno Cesari, Osvaldo Desideri, and Ferdinando Scarfiotti – The Last Emperor
1989Danilo Donati – Francesco
- Lucia Mirisola – 'O Re
- Ferdinando Scarfiotti – ''Fair Game''
1990s
1990Dante Ferretti – The Voice of the Moon- Giantito Burchiellaro – The Bachelor
- Amedeo Fago and Franco Velchi – Open Doors
- Mario Garbuglia – The Miser
- Franco Velchi – Dark Illness
- Gianni Sbarra – The Sun Also Shines at Night
- Andrea Crisanti – Everybody's Fine
- Lucia Mirisola and Paola Comencini – In the Name of the Sovereign People
1993Gianna Sbarra – Fiorile
- Giancarlo Muselli – Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
- Carlo Simi – La valle di pietra
- Giantito Burchiellaro – Sparrow
- Enrico Fiorentini – For Love, Only for Love
- Giantito Burchiellaro – Sostiene Pereira
- Gianni Quaranta – Farinelli
- Enrico Job – The Nymph
- Gianni Silvestri – Stealing Beauty
- Giancarlo Basili – Nirvana
- Giantito Burchiellaro – The Prince of Homburg
- Andrea Crisanti – The Truce
- Gianni Sbarra – The Elective Affinities
- Alberto Cottignoli and Stefano Tonelli – The Best Man
- Luciano Ricceri – Kaputt Mundi
- Giancarlo Basili – The Way We Laughed
- Enrico Job – ''Ferdinando and Carolina''
2000s
2000Francesco Bronzi – Canone inverso2001Luciano Ricceri – Unfair Competition
- Giancarlo Basili – The Son's Room
- Francesco Frigeri – Malèna
2003Danilo Donati – Pinocchio
- Paolo Bonfini – The Embalmer
- Giantito Burchiellaro – The Soul Keeper
- Marco Dentici – My Mother's Smile
- Simona Migliotti – Incantato
- Paola Bizzarri – Agata and the Storm
- Franco Ceraolo – The Best of Youth
- Marco Dentici – What Will Happen to Us
- Francesco Frigeri – Don't Move
- Giancarlo Basili – An Italian Romance
- Francesca Bocca – After Midnight
- Marco Dentici – The Life That I Want
- Beatrice Scarpato – The Remains of Nothing
- Giancarlo Basili – The Caiman
- Andrea Crisanti – The Goodbye Kiss
- Carlo De Marino – Fuoco su di me
- Maurizio Marchitelli – My Best Enemy
- Francesco Frigeri – Napoleon and Me
- Tonino Zera – The Unknown Woman
- Giuseppe Pirrotta – One Hundred Nails
- Andrea Crisanti – The Lark Farm
- Paola Bizzarri – Days and Clouds
- Giada Calabria – Quiet Chaos
- Alessandra Mura – The Girl by the Lake
- Tonino Zera – Hotel Meina
- Giancarlo Basili – Wild Blood
- Paolo Bonfini – Gomorrah
- Giantito Burchiellaro – Caravaggio
- Lino Fiorito – ''Il divo''
2010s
2010Marco Dentici – Vincere- Gian Carlo Basili – The Man Who Will Come
- Andrea Crisanti – Loose Cannons
- Maurizio Sabatini – Baarìa
- Tonino Zera – The First Beautiful Thing
- Francesco Frigeri - Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio
- Paola Comencini – Benvenuti al Sud
- Paki Meduri – Into Paradiso
- Tonino Zera – Angel of Evil
- Francesco Frigeri – The Entrepreneur
- Andrea Crisanti – Magnificent Presence
- Giancarlo Basili – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
- Stefania Cella – This Must Be the Place
- Paolo Bonfini – Reality
- Marco Dentici – It Was the Son
- Marta Maffucci – Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood
- Rita Rabassini – Siberian Education
- Giancarlo Basili – Those Happy Years
- Marco Dentici – Salvo
- Marta Maffucci – Fasten Your Seatbelts
- Mauro Radaelli – Human Capital
- Luca Servino – Black Souls
- Emita Frigato – Wondrous Boccaccio
- Paki Meduri – The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
- Giuseppe Pirrotta – Greenery Will Bloom Again
- Maurizio Sabatini – The Correspondence
- Massimiliano Sturiale – They Call Me Jeeg
- Giada Calabria – Don't Be Bad
- Paki Meduri – Suburra
- Ludovica Ferrario – Youth
- Marcello Di Carlo – At War with Love
- Carmine Guarino – Indivisible
- Marco Dentici – Sweet Dreams
- Livia Borgognoni – La stoffa dei sogni
- Noemi Marchica – Love and Bullets
- Maurizio Sabatini – Brutti e cattivi
- Tonino Zera – The Girl in the Fog
- Giancarlo Basili – Tenderness
- Luca Servino – Bloody Richard
- Giancarlo Muselli – Capri-Revolution
- Samuel Deshors – Call Me by Your Name
- Emita Frigato – Happy as Lazzaro
- Stefania Cella – ''Loro''
2020s
2020Dimitri Capuani – Pinocchio- Nello Giorgetti – 5 Is the Perfect Number
- Tonino Zera – The First King: Birth of an Empire
- Andrea Castorina – The Traitor
- Inbal Weinberg – Suspiria
| Year | Title | Production designer | Set decorator |
| 2021 | Hidden Away | Ludovica Ferrario, Alessandra Mura | Paola Zamagni |
| 2021 | Bad Tales | Paolo Bonfini, Paola Peraro, Emita Frigato | Erika Aversa |
| 2021 | Hammamet | Giancarlo Basili | Andrea Castorina |
| 2021 | Miss Marx | Alessandro Vannucci, Igor Gabriel | Fiorella Cicolini |
| 2021 | Rose Island | Tonino Zera | Maria Grazia Schirripa |
| 2022 | Freaks Out | Massimiliano Sturiale | Ilaria Fallacara |
| 2022 | Diabolik | Noemi Marchica | Maria Michela De Domenico |
| 2022 | The Hand of God | Carmine Guarino | Iole Autero |
| 2022 | The Inner Cage | Luca Servino | Susanna Abenavoli |
| 2022 | The King of Laughter | Giancarlo Muselli, Carlo Rescigno | Laura Casalini, Francesco Fonda |
| 2023 | Strangeness | Giada Calabria | Loredana Raffi |
| 2023 | Caravaggio's Shadow | Tonino Zera | Maria Grazia Schirippa, Marco Bagnoli |
| 2023 | The Eight Mountains | Massimiliano Nocente | Marcella Galeone |
| 2023 | Exterior Night | Andrea Castorina | Marco Martucci, Laura Casalini |
| 2023 | Lord of the Ants | Marta Maffucci | Carolina Ferrara |
| 2024 | Kidnapped | Andrea Castorina | Valeria Vecellio |
| 2024 | La chimera | Emita Frigato | Rachele Meliadò |
| 2024 | Comandante | Carmine Guarino | Iole Autero |
| 2024 | Io capitano | Dimitri Capuani | Roberta Troncarelli |
| 2024 | There's Still Tomorrow | Paola Comencini | Fiorella Cicolini |
| 2025 | The Art of Joy | Luca Merlini | Giulietta Rimoldi |
| 2025 | The Flood | Tonino Zera | Carlotta Desmann, Maria Grazia Schirripa |
| 2025 | The Great Ambition | Alessandro Vannucci | Laura Casalini |
| 2025 | Parthenope | Carmine Guarino | Iole Autero |
| 2025 | Vermiglio | Pirra, Vito Giuseppe Zito | Sara Pergher |