65th David di Donatello explained

Number:	65
Award:	David di Donatello
Date:	8 May 2020
Site:	RAI Studios Rome, Italy
Host:	Carlo Conti
Best Picture:	The Traitor
Most Wins:	The Traitor (6)
Network:	Rai 1
Most Nominations:	The Traitor (18)
Duration:	2 hours, 8 minutes^[1]
Last:	64th
Next:	66th

The 65th David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, honoured the best Italian films of 2019.^[2] The ceremony was hosted by presenter Carlo Conti on 8 May 2020. The awards ceremony was initially set for 3 April 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] Also, the ceremony was held live at RAI Studios and broadcast by Rai 1 while the candidates were connected via video and answered the questions asked by the Carlo Conti from the studio.^[4]

The crime drama film The Traitor won six awards, including Best Film, out of eighteen nominations.^[5] Other winners included Pinocchio with five, with three, The Goddess of Fortune with two, and 5 is the Perfect Number, Bangla, Il flauto magico di Piazza Vittorio, Martin Eden, My Brother Chases Dinosaurs, Once Upon a Time... in Bethlehem, Parasite, Selfie and Timo's Winter with one.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[6] The nominations were announced on 18 February 2020.^[7]

The Traitor – Marco Bellocchio, director – Matteo Rovere, director Martin Eden – Pietro Marcello, director Pinocchio – Matteo Garrone, director Piranhas – Claudio Giovannesi, director	– Andrea Paris and Matteo Rovere, producers; Groenlandia, Rai Cinema, Roman Citizen and Gapbusters, production companies Bangla – Domenico Procacci and Anna Maria Morelli, producers; TIMvision, production company Martin Eden – Pietro Marcello, Beppe Caschetto, Thomas Ordonneau, Michael Weber and Viola Fügen, producers; Rai Cinema, production company Pinocchio – Matteo Garrone, Jean Labadie, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jeremy Thomas and Paolo Del Brocco, producers; Archimede, Rai Cinema and Le Pacte, production companies The Traitor – Beppe Caschetto, producer; IBC Movie, Kavac Film and Rai Cinema, production companies
Marco Bellocchio – The Traitor Claudio Giovannesi – Piranhas Matteo Garrone – Pinocchio Matteo Rovere – Pietro Marcello – Martin Eden	Phaim Bhuyian – Bangla Carlo Sironi – Sole Igort – 5 Is the Perfect Number Leonardo D'Agostini – The Champion Marco D'Amore – The Immortal
Pierfrancesco Favino – The Traitor as Tommaso Buscetta Alessandro Borghi – as Remus Francesco Di Leva – The Mayor of Rione Sanità as Antonio Barracano Luca Marinelli – Martin Eden as Martin Eden Toni Servillo – 5 Is the Perfect Number as Peppino Lo Cicero	Jasmine Trinca – The Goddess of Fortune as Annamaria Isabella Ragonese – My Brother Chases Dinosaurs as Katia Linda Caridi – Remember? as Lei Lunetta Savino – Rosa as Rosa Valeria Bruni Tedeschi – The Summer House as Anna Valeria Golino – Volare as Elisa
Luigi Lo Cascio – The Traitor as Salvatore Contorno Carlo Buccirosso – 5 Is the Perfect Number as Totò the Butcher Fabrizio Ferracane – The Traitor as Giuseppe Calò Roberto Benigni – Pinocchio as Geppetto Stefano Accorsi – The Champion as Valerio	Valeria Golino – 5 Is the Perfect Number as Rita Alida Baldari Calabria – Pinocchio as Fairy with Turquoise Hair Anna Ferzetti – Tomorrow's a New Day as Paola Maria Amato – The Traitor as Melchiorra Buscetta Tania Garribba – as Satnei
The Traitor – Marco Bellocchio, Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santella and Francesco Piccolo Bangla – Phaim Bhuiyan and Vanessa Picciarelli – Filippo Gravino, Francesca Manieri and Matteo Rovere The Goddess of Fortune – Gianni Romoli, Silvia Ranfagni and Ferzan Özpetek Remember? – Valerio Mieli	Martin Eden – Maurizio Braucci and Pietro Marcello; based on the novel by Jack London The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily – Jean-Luc Fromental, Thomas Bidegain and Lorenzo Mattotti; based on the book by Dino Buzzati The Mayor of Rione Sanità – Mario Martone and Ippolita Di Majo; based on the play by Eduardo De Filippo Pinocchio – Matteo Garrone and Massimo Ceccherini; based on the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Piranhas – Claudio Giovannesi, Roberto Saviano and Maurizio Braucci; based on the novel The Piranhas: The Boy Bosses of Naples by Roberto Saviano
– Daniele Ciprì Martin Eden – Franco Di Giacomo Pinocchio – Nicolaj Brüel Remember? – Daria D'Antonio The Traitor – Vladan Radovic	Pinocchio – Dimitri Capuani 5 Is the Perfect Number – Nello Giorgetti – Tonino Zera Suspiria – Inbal Weinberg The Traitor – Andrea Castorina
Il flauto magico di Piazza Vittorio – Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio – Andrea Farri Pinocchio – Dario Marianelli Suspiria – Thom Yorke The Traitor – Nicola Piovani	"Che vita meravigliosa" from The Goddess of Fortune – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Diodato "Festa" from Bangla – Music by Aiello; Lyrics by Aiello and Shoshi Md Ziaul; Performed by Moonstar Studio "Rione Sanità" from The Mayor of Rione Sanità – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Ralph P "Suspirium" from Suspiria – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Thom Yorke "Un errore di distrazione" from The Guest – Music, Lyrics and Performed by Brunori Sas
The Traitor – Francesca Calvelli – Gianni Vezzosi Martin Eden – Aline Hervé and Fabrizio Federico The Mayor of Rione Sanità – Jacopo Quadri Pinocchio – Marco Spoletini	– Angelo Bonanni, Davide D'Onofrio, Mirko Perri, Mauro Eusepi and Michele Mazzucco 5 Is the Perfect Number – Daniele Maraniello, Max Gobiet, Giuseppe D'Amato, Francesco Albertelli and Marcos Molina Jaime Martin Eden – Denny de Angelis, Simone Panetta, Stefano Grosso and Michael Kaczmarek The Traitor – Gaetano Carito, Adriano di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo Merafino, Lilio Rosato, Gianluca Basili and Francesco Tumminello Pinocchio – Maricetta Lombardo, Gianni Pallotto, Luca Novelli, Daniela Bassani and Stefano Grosso
Pinocchio – Massimo Cantini Parrini 5 Is the Perfect Number – Nicoletta Taranta – Valentina Taviani Martin Eden – Andrea Cavalletto The Traitor – Daria Calvelli	Pinocchio – Rodolfo Migliari and Theo Demeris 5 Is the Perfect Number – Giuseppe Squillaci – Francesco Grisi and Gaia Bussolati Suspiria – Luca Saviotti The Traitor – Rodolfo Migliari
Pinocchio – Dalia Colli and Mark Coulier 5 Is the Perfect Number – Andreina Becagli – Roberto Pastore, Andrea Leanza, Valentina Visintin and Lorenzo Tamburini Suspiria – Fernanda Perez The Traitor – Dalia Colli and Lorenzo Tamburini	Pinocchio – Francesco Pegoretti – Marzia Colomba Martin Eden – Daniela Tartari Suspiria – Manolo García The Traitor – Alberta Giuliani
Selfie – Agostino Ferrente, director Citizen Rosi – Didi Gnocchi and Carolina Rosi, directors Fellini Never-Ending – Eugenio Cappuccio, director The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be – Franco Maresco, director Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto - Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari – Simone Isola and Fausto Trombetta, directors	Timo's Winter – Giulio Mastromauro, director Brother – Beppe Tufarulo, director My Sister – Saverio Cappiello, director Our Time – Veronica Spedicati, director Unfolded – Cristina Picchi, director
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho, director Green Book – Peter Farrelly, director Joker – Todd Phillips, director An Officer and a Spy – Roman Polanski, director Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino, director	My Brother Chases Dinosaurs – Stefano Cipani, director The Goddess of Fortune – Ferzan Özpetek, director Into the Labyrinth – Donato Carrisi, director Martin Eden – Pietro Marcello, director The Traitor – Marco Bellocchio, director
Franca Valeri^[8]	Once Upon a Time... in Bethlehem, directed by Ficarra e Picone for garnering 2,363,303 spectators^[9]

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
18	The Traitor
15
	Pinocchio
11	Martin Eden
9	5 Is the Perfect Number
6	Suspiria
4	Bangla
	The Goddess of Fortune
	The Mayor of Rione Sanità
3	Piranhas
	Ricordi?
2	The Champion
	My Brother Chases Dinosaurs

Films that received multiple awards

Awards	Film
6	The Traitor
5	Pinocchio
3
2	The Goddess of Fortune

Notes and References

1. Web site: David di Donatello 2020. 2 December 2022.
2. Web site: David di Donatello 2020, tutte le candidature. Rai Cinema. 18 February 2020. 23 April 2024.
3. Web site: David di Donatello 2020 rinviati per il Coronavirus. Movieplayer.it. 9 March 2020. 2 December 2022. Marica. Lancellotti.
4. News: David di Donatello 2020: trionfa Il traditore di Bellocchio, Favino e Trinca migliori attori. Ivan. Zingariello. 8 May 2020. 2 December 2022.
5. Web site: Marco Bellocchio's 'The Traitor' Dominates Italy's David di Donatello Awards. Variety. 8 May 2020. 2 December 2022. Nick. Vivarelli.
6. Web site: The David di Donatello Awards for Best Film and Best Director go to The Traitor. Cineuropa. 9 May 2020. 2 December 2022. Vittoria. Scarpa.
7. Web site: 'Joker,' 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' 'Parasite' Among Italy's David di Donatello Awards Nominees. The Hollywood Reporter. 18 February 2020. 2 December 2022. Georg. Szalai.
8. Web site: A Franca Valeri il David speciale. Mymovies.it. 5 May 2020. 2 December 2022.
9. Web site: David di Donatello 2020: Il primo Natale di Ficarra e Picone vince il David dello Spettatore. Movieplayer.it. 28 April 2020. 2 December 2022.