David di Donatello for Best Director

David di Donatello Award for Best Director
Awarded forBest director of an Italian film
CountryItaly
Presented byAccademia del Cinema Italiano
First awarded1956 (for direction in films released during the 1955/1956 film season)
Currently held byGiorgio Diritti — Hidden Away (2020)
Websitedaviddidonatello.it

The David di Donatello Award for Best Director (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior regista) is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize the outstanding direction of a film director who has worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony.[1] The award was first given in 1956, and became competitive in 1981.[2]

Nominees and winners are selected via runoff voting by all the members of the Accademia.[3][4]

Francesco Rosi is the record holder with six awards in the category, received from 1965 to 1997, followed by Mario Monicelli and Giuseppe Tornatore with four.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference chrono was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lancia, Enrico (1998). I premi del cinema [The awards of cinema] (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Gremese Editore. pp. 251–252. ISBN 8877422211.
  3. ^ "Regolamento". daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Accademia del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  4. ^ Niola, Gabriele (12 December 2018). "Ecco i nuovi David di Donatello: nuova giuria, nuovo sistema di votazione, nuovi possibili candidati. Fuori lo streaming". Badtaste.it (in Italian). Retrieved 12 December 2018.