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Francesco Sossai’s comedy-drama The Last One For The Road swept nan committee astatine nan 71st version of Italy‘s David di Donatello awards astatine Romes Cinecittà studios connected Wednesday winning successful 10 categories including champion movie and director.
The roadworthy movie, which primitively premiered successful Cannes Un Certain Regard successful 2025, stars Sergio Romano and Pierpaolo Capovilla arsenic 2 fifty-something men from Italy’s bluish Veneto area who befriend a timid student from Naples, played by Filippo Scotti.
Having led astatine nan information shape making it into 16 categories, nan image besides won champion character for Romano, original screenplay, cinematography, editing, original song, accumulation design, casting and producer.
Further aggregate prizewinners of nan nighttime included Italian opera head Damiano Michieletto’s directorial debut, nan Venice-set Antonio Vivaldi-inspired communicative Primavera; Silvio Soldini’s World War Two play The Tasters astir a group of young women forced to activity arsenic nutrient tasters for Adolf Hitler who lived successful fearfulness of being poisoned, and Italian martial arts action-thriller Forbidden City.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning image One Battle After Another won nan Best International Film Prize, beating contenders I’m Still Here, The Voice of Hind Rajab, The Brutalist and It Was Just An Accident.
In honorary prizes, Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro was feted pinch nan Special Prize Cinecittà 91 for his profession including Francis Ford Coppola’ Apocalypse now, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and Warren Beatty’s Reds arsenic good arsenic films pinch Dario Argento, Woody Allen, Carlos Saura, Richard Donner, Alfonso Arau and Paul Schrader among galore others.
Director Gianni Amelio was celebrated pinch an honorary profession prize, while nan Special David Prize went to animator and head Bruno Bozzetto. Gennaro Nunziante’s record-breaking container agency deed drama Buen Camino starring Checco Zalone won nan Spectator prize.
2026 Winners
Best Film
The Last One For The Road, Francesco Sossai
Best Director
Francesco Sossai, The Last One For The Road
Best First Film
Margherita Spampinato, Sweetheart
Best Original Screenplay
Francesco Sossai, Adriano Candiago, The Last One For The Road
Best Adapted Screenplay
Doriana Leondeff, Silvio Soldini, Lucio Ricca, Cristina Comencini, Giulia Calenda, Ilaria Macchia, The Tasters
Best Producer
The Last One For The Road, Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa for Vivo Film, pinch Rai Cnema, successful collaboration pinch Philipp Kreuzer for Maze Pictures, Cecilia Trautvetter
Best Actress
Aurora Quattrocchi, Sweetheart
Best Actor
Sergio Romano, The Last One For The Road
Best Actress successful a Supporting Role
Matilda De Angelis, Fuori
Best Actor successful a Supporting Role
Lino Musella, Feeling Better
Best International Film
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Casting
Adriano Candiago, The Last One For The Road
Best Cinematography
Paolo Carnera, Forbidden City
Best Composer
Primavera, Fabio Massimo Capogrosso
Best Original Song
Krano, The Last One For The Road
Best Art Direction
Andrea Castorina, Marco Martucci, Forbidden City
Best Costumes
Primavera, Maria Rita Barbera, Gaia Calderone
Best Make-up
Esmé Sciaroni, The Tasters
Best Hair
Marta iacoponi, Primavera
Best Editing
Paolo Cottignola, The Last One For The Road
Best Sound
Gianluca Scarlata, Davide Favargiotti, Daniele Quadroli, Nadia Paone, Primavera
Best Special Effects
Forbidden City, Stefano Leoni, Andrea Lo Priore
Best Documentary
Roberto Rossellini, Living Without a Script, Ilaria de Laurentiis, Andrea Paolo Massara, Raffaele Brunetti
Best Short
Everyday successful Gaza, Omar Rammal
Youth Prize
The Tasters, Silvio Soldini
