David di Donatello

David di Donatello Awards
Current: 69th David di Donatello
A David di Donatello awarded in 2014
Awarded forThe best of Italian and foreign motion picture productions
Date1955 (1955)
CountryItaly
Presented byAcademy of Italian Cinema
First awarded5 June 1956
Websitewww.daviddidonatello.it

The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's David, a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance,[1] are film awards given out each year by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award categories, as of 2023.

The industry-voted awards are considered the Italian equivalent of the American Academy Awards[2] and rank among top-tier awards such as the Premio Regia Televisiva for television, the Premio Ubu for stage performances, the Sanremo Music Festival, and the annual Venice Film Festival, which hosts the Golden Lion film award.[3]

  1. ^ "Trionfante e sereno nella sua nudità, David, simbolo del Rinascimento" (in Italian). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference OFC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Sackler Documentary 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' Wins Venice 2002 Golden Lion Award for Best Film". The Hollywood Reporter. 10 September 2022.

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