David di Donatello for Best Film

David di Donatello are film awards given by Italian Academy of Films, every year.

1970

• Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto, by Elio Petri (ex aequo)
• Metello, by Mauro Bolognini (ex aequo)

1971

• The Conformist (film), by Bernardo Bertolucci (ex aequo)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film), by Vittorio De Sica (ex aequo)
• Waterloo (Waterloo), by Sergei Bondarchuk (ex aequo)

1972

• The Working Class Goes to Heaven, by Elio Petri (ex aequo)
• Questa specie d'amore, by Alberto Bevilacqua (ex aequo)

1973

• Alfredo, Alfredo, by Pietro Germi (ex aequo)
• Ludwig, by Luchino Visconti (ex aequo)

1974

• Amarcord, by Federico Fellini (ex aequo)
• Pane e cioccolata, by Franco Brusati (ex aequo)

1975

• Fatti di gente per bene by Mauro Bolognini (ex aequo)
• Conversation Piece by Luchino Visconti (ex aequo)

1976

• Cadaveri eccellenti by Francesco Rosi

1977

• The Desert of the Tartars by Valerio Zurlini
• Un borghese piccolo piccolo by Mario Monicelli (ex aequo)

1978

• Il prefetto di ferro by Pasquale Squitieri (ex aequo)
• In nome del Papa Re by Luigi Magni (ex aequo)

1979

• Christ Stopped at Eboli (film) by Francesco Rosi (ex aequo)
• To forget Venice by Franco Brusati (ex aequo)
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi (ex aequo)

1980

(Not Award)

1981

• Ricomincio da tre, by Massimo Troisi

1982

• Borotalco, by Carlo Verdone

1983

• La notte di San Lorenzo, regia di Paolo e Vittorio Taviani

1984

• Le Bal, by Ettore Scola (ex-aequo)
• E la nave va, by Federico Fellini (ex-aequo)

1985

• Carmen, by Francesco Rosi

1986

• Speriamo che sia femmina, by Mario Monicelli

1987

• La famiglia, by Ettore Scola

1988

• The Last Emperor, by Bernardo Bertolucci

1989

• La leggenda del santo bevitore, by Ermanno Olmi

1990

• Open Doors, by Gianni Amelio

1991

• Mediterraneo, by Gabriele Salvatores (ex-aequo)
• Verso sera, by Francesca Archibugi (ex-aequo)

1992

• The Stolen Children, by Gianni Amelio

1993

• Il grande cocomero, by Francesca Archibugi

1994

• Caro diario, by Nanni Moretti (won)
• Per amore, solo per amore, by Giovanni Veronesi
• Perdiamoci di vista!, by Carlo Verdone

1995

• La scuola, by Daniele Luchetti (won)
• L'amore molesto, by Mario Martone
• Il postino, by Michael Radford

1996

• Ferie d'agosto, by Paolo Virzì (won)
• Celluloide, by Carlo Lizzani
• Stealing Beauty, by Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Star Maker, by Giuseppe Tornatore

1997

• La tregua, by Francesco Rosi (won)
• Il ciclone, by Leonardo Pieraccioni
• Marianna Ucrìa, by Roberto Faenza
• La mia generazione, by Wilma Labate
• Nirvana, by Gabriele Salvatores

1998

• Life Is Beautiful, by Roberto Benigni (won)
• Ovosodo, by Paolo Virzì
• Aprile, by Nanni Moretti

1999

• Not of this World, by Giuseppe Piccioni (won)
• The Legend of 1900, by Giuseppe Tornatore
• Besieged (film), by Bernardo Bertolucci

2000s

2010s

David di Donatello
Awards	Best Film Best Director Best New Director Best Script Best Producer Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Cinematography Best Score Best Song Best Sets and Decorations Best Costumes Best Make-Up Best Hair Design Best Editing Best Sound Best Visual Effects Best Documentary Best Short Film Best European Film Best Foreign Film
Discontinued Awards	Best Foreign Director Best Foreign Producer Best Foreign Actor Best Foreign Actress Best Foreign Score Best Foreign Screenplay Best New Actor Best New Actress Luchino Visconti Award
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