David di Donatello for Best Production Design
{{short description|Annual Italian film award}}
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The David di Donatello for Best Production Design ({{langx|it|David di Donatello per la migliore scenografia}}), known as the {{lang|it|David di Donatello per il miglior scenografo}} prior to 2018, is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) 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.{{cite web|title=Cronologia dei premi David di Donatello |url=https://www.daviddidonatello.it/storia/cronologia.php |website=daviddidonatello.it |date= |accessdate=19 December 2019 |language=it |trans-title=Chronology of David di Donatello awards}} Since 2021, the award is shared with the set decorators.{{Cite web |title=I David di Donatello su Rai1 |url=https://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/assets/template/us-articolo.html?ssiPath=/articoli/2021/05/I-David-di-Donatello-su-Rai1-53d55f32-09f2-4834-bb6a-19d855e36e9e-ssi.html |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=RAI Ufficio Stampa}}
Winners and nominees
Winners are indicated in bold.
=1980s=
1981
- Mario Garbuglia – The Lady of the Camellias
- Andrea Crisanti – Three Brothers
- Luigi Scaccianoce – Fontamara
1982
- Lorenzo Baraldi – Il marchese del Grillo
- Andrea Crisanti – Talcum Powder
- Dante Ferretti – Tales of Ordinary Madness
- Lorenzo Baraldi – Portrait of a Woman, Nude
1983
- Dante Ferretti – That Night in Varennes
- Marco Ferreri – The Story of Piera
- Gianni Sbarra – The Night of the Shooting Stars
1984
- Dante Ferretti – And the Ship Sails On
- Luciano Ricceri – Le Bal
- Elena Ricci Poccetto – Where's Picone?
1985
1986
1987
- Dante Ferretti – The Name of the Rose
- Mario Chiari – Via Montenapoleone
- Luciano Ricceri – The Family
1988
- Bruno Cesari, Osvaldo Desideri, and Ferdinando Scarfiotti – The Last Emperor
- Danilo Donati – Intervista
- Mario Garbuglia – Dark Eyes
1989
=1990s=
1990
- Dante 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
1991
- Paolo Biagetti and Luciano Ricceri – Captain Fracassa's Journey
- 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
1992
1993
- Gianna Sbarra – Fiorile
- Giancarlo Muselli – Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
- Carlo Simi – La valle di pietra
1994
- Antonello Geleng – Cemetery Man
- Giantito Burchiellaro – Sparrow
- Enrico Fiorentini – For Love, Only for Love
1995
- Andrea Crisanti – A Pure Formality
- Giantito Burchiellaro – Sostiene Pereira
- Gianni Quaranta – Farinelli
1996
1997
- Danilo Donati – Marianna Ucrìa
- Giancarlo Basili – Nirvana
- Giantito Burchiellaro – The Prince of Homburg
- Andrea Crisanti – The Truce
- Gianni Sbarra – The Elective Affinities
1998
- Danilo Donati – Life Is Beautiful
- Alberto Cottignoli and Stefano Tonelli – The Best Man
- Luciano Ricceri – Kaputt Mundi
1999
=2000s=
2000
- Francesco Bronzi – Canone inverso
- Marco Dentici – The Nanny
- Antonello Geleng and Marina Pinzuti – Love in the Mirror (Amor nello specchio)
2001
2002
2003
- Danilo Donati – Pinocchio
- Paolo Bonfini – The Embalmer
- Giantito Burchiellaro – The Soul Keeper
- Marco Dentici – My Mother's Smile
- Simona Migliotti – Incantato
2004
- Luigi Marchione – Singing Behind Screens
- Paola Bizzarri – Agata and the Storm
- Franco Ceraolo – The Best of Youth
- Marco Dentici – What Will Happen to Us
- Francesco Frigeri – Don't Move
2005
- Andrea Crisanti – Sacred Heart
- Giancarlo Basili – An Italian Romance
- Francesca Bocca – After Midnight
- Marco Dentici – The Life That I Want
- Beatrice Scarpato – The Remains of Nothing
2006
- Paola Comencini – Romanzo Criminale
- Giancarlo Basili – The Caiman
- Andrea Crisanti – The Goodbye Kiss
- Carlo De Marino – Fuoco su di me
- Maurizio Marchitelli – My Best Enemy
2007
- Carlos Conti – Nuovomondo
- Francesco Frigeri – Napoleon and Me
- Tonino Zera – The Unknown Woman
- Giuseppe Pirrotta – One Hundred Nails
- Andrea Crisanti – The Lark Farm
2008
- Francesco Frigeri – I Viceré
- Paola Bizzarri – Days and Clouds
- Giada Calabria – Quiet Chaos
- Alessandra Mura – The Girl by the Lake
- Tonino Zera – Hotel Meina
2009
=2010s=
2010
- Marco Dentici – Vincere
- Gian Carlo Basili – The Man Who Will Come
- Andrea Crisanti – Loose Cannons
- Maurizio Sabatini – Baarìa
- Tonino Zera – The First Beautiful Thing
2011
- Emita Frigato – Noi credevamo
- Francesco Frigeri - Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio
- Paola Comencini – Benvenuti al Sud
- Paki Meduri – Into Paradiso
- Tonino Zera – Angel of Evil
2012
- Paola Bizzarri – We Have a Pope
- Francesco Frigeri – The Entrepreneur
- Andrea Crisanti – Magnificent Presence
- Giancarlo Basili – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
- Stefania Cella – This Must Be the Place
2013
- Maurizio Sabatini and Raffaella Giovannetti – The Best Offer
- Paolo Bonfini – Reality
- Marco Dentici – It Was the Son
- Marta Maffucci – Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood
- Rita Rabassini – Siberian Education
2014
- Stefania Cella – The Great Beauty
- Giancarlo Basili – Those Happy Years
- Marco Dentici – Salvo
- Marta Maffucci – Fasten Your Seatbelts
- Mauro Radaelli – Human Capital
2015
- Giancarlo Muselli – Leopardi
- Luca Servino – Black Souls
- Emita Frigato – Wondrous Boccaccio
- Paki Meduri – The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
- Giuseppe Pirrotta – Greenery Will Bloom Again
2016
- Dimitri Capuani and Alessia Anfuso – Tale of Tales
- Maurizio Sabatini – The Correspondence
- Massimiliano Sturiale – They Call Me Jeeg
- Giada Calabria – Don't Be Bad
- Paki Meduri – Suburra
- Ludovica Ferrario – Youth
2017
- Tonino Zera – Like Crazy
- Marcello Di Carlo – At War with Love
- Carmine Guarino – Indivisible
- Marco Dentici – Sweet Dreams
- Livia Borgognoni – La stoffa dei sogni
2018
- Deniz Gokturk Kobanbay and Ivana Gargiulo – Napoli velata
- Noemi Marchica – Love and Bullets
- Maurizio Sabatini – Brutti e cattivi
- Tonino Zera – The Girl in the Fog
- Giancarlo Basili – Tenderness
- Luca Servino – Bloody Richard
2019
=2020s=
- Dimitri 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
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| width="100"|Year
!width="300"|Title !width="300"|Production designer(s) !width="300"|Set decorator(s) |
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! rowspan="5" align="center" | 2021 | Ludovica Ferrario, Alessandra Mura | Paola Zamagni |
| Bad Tales
| Paolo Bonfini, Paola Peraro, Emita Frigato | Erika Aversa |
| Hammamet
| Giancarlo Basili | Andrea Castorina |
| Miss Marx
| Alessandro Vannucci, Igor Gabriel | Fiorella Cicolini |
| Rose Island
| Tonino Zera | Maria Grazia Schirripa |
| style="background:#DDBF5F;"
! rowspan="5" align="center" | 2022 | Massimiliano Sturiale | Ilaria Fallacara |
| Diabolik
| Noemi Marchica | Maria Michela De Domenico |
| The Hand of God
| Carmine Guarino | Iole Autero |
| The Inner Cage
| Luca Servino | Susanna Abenavoli |
| The King of Laughter
| Giancarlo Muselli, Carlo Rescigno | Laura Casalini, Francesco Fonda |
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! rowspan="5" align="center" | 2023 | Giada Calabria | Loredana Raffi |
| Caravaggio's Shadow
| Tonino Zera | Maria Grazia Schirippa, Marco Bagnoli |
| The Eight Mountains
| Massimiliano Nocente | Marcella Galeone |
| Exterior Night
| Andrea Castorina | Marco Martucci, Laura Casalini |
| Lord of the Ants
| Marta Maffucci | Carolina Ferrara |
| style="background:#DDBF5F;"
! rowspan="5" align="center" | 2024 | Andrea Castorina | Valeria Vecellio |
| La chimera
| Emita Frigato | Rachele Meliadò |
| Comandante
| Carmine Guarino | Iole Autero |
| Io capitano
| Dimitri Capuani | Roberta Troncarelli |
| There's Still Tomorrow
| Paola Comencini | Fiorella Cicolini |
| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2025 (70th) | The Art of Joy | Luca Merlini | Giulietta Rimoldi |
| The Flood
| Tonino Zera | Carlotta Desmann, Maria Grazia Schirripa |
| The Great Ambition
| Alessandro Vannucci | Laura Casalini |
| Parthenope
| Carmine Guarino | Iole Autero |
| Vermiglio
| Pirra, Vito Giuseppe Zito | Sara Pergher |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb event|0000203}}
- [https://www.daviddidonatello.it/ David di Donatello official website]
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