David di Donatello for Best Film

David di Donatello Award for Best Film
Awarded forBest Film of the Year
CountryItaly
Presented byAccademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI)
First awarded1970; 54 years ago (1970) (for the films released during the 1969/1970 film season)
Most recent winnerIo capitano (2024)
Websitedaviddidonatello.it

The David di Donatello Award for Best Film (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior film) is one of the David di Donatello awards presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI). The award recognizes the most outstanding Italian film theatrically released in Italy during the year preceding the ceremony.[1][2] The award was first given in 1970, and became competitive in 1981.[3]

Nominees and winners are selected via runoff voting by all the members of the Accademia.[2][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference chrono was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Lancia, Enrico (1998). I premi del cinema [The awards of cinema] (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Gremese Editore. pp. 251–252. ISBN 8877422211.
  4. ^ "Regolamento". daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Accademia del Cinema Italiano. Retrieved 15 September 2018.