David di Donatello for Best Cinematography

Annual Italian film award

The David di Donatello for Best Cinematography (Italian: David di Donatello per il migliore autore della fotografia) is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of cinematographers who have worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was first given in 1981.^[1]

Luca Bigazzi is the record holder with seven awards in the category.

Winners and nominees

Winners are indicated in bold.

1980s

1981

Pasqualino De Santis – Three Brothers
Tonino Delli Colli – Camera d'albergo
Ennio Guarnieri – The Lady of the Camellias

1982

Tonino Delli Colli – Tales of Ordinary Madness
Danilo Desideri – Portrait of a Woman, Nude
Sergio D'Offizi – Il Marchese del Grillo

1983

Franco Di Giacomo – The Night of the Shooting Stars
Armando Nannuzzi – Il mondo nuovo
Carlo Di Palma – Identification of a Woman

1984

Giuseppe Rotunno – And the Ship Sails On
Ricardo Aronovich – Le Bal (1983 film)
Dante Spinotti – Hearts and Armour

1985

1986

Giuseppe Lanci – Camorra
Tonino Delli Colli and Ennio Guarnieri – Ginger and Fred
Dante Spinotti – The Berlin Affair

1987

Tonino Delli Colli – The Name of the Rose
Ricardo Aronovich – The Family
Franco Di Giacomo – The Inquiry

1988

Vittorio Storaro – The Last Emperor
Franco Di Giacomo – Dark Eyes
Tonino Delli Colli – Intervista

1989

Dante Spinotti – The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Giuseppe Lanci – Francesco
Luciano Tovoli – Splendor

1990s

1990

Giuseppe Rotunno – The Bachelor
Tonino Nardi – Open Doors
Tonino Delli Colli – The Voice of the Moon
Pasqualino De Santis – The Palermo Connection
Luciano Tovoli – What Time Is It?

1991

Luciano Tovoli – Captain Fracassa's Journey
Italo Petriccione – Mediterraneo
Alessio Gelsini Torresi – Ultra
Giuseppe Lanci – The Sun Also Shines at Night
Giuseppe Lanci – The Conviction

1992

Danilo Desideri – Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
Tonino Nardi and Renato Tafuri – The Stolen Children
Ennio Guarnieri – The Inner Circle

1993

Alessio Gelsini Torresi – The Escort
Luca Bigazzi – Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Giuseppe Lanci – Fiorile

1994

Bruno Cascio – Father and Son
Dante Spinotti – The Secret of the Old Woods
Luca Bigazzi – A Soul Split in Two
Giuseppe Lanci – Caro diario

1995

Luca Bigazzi – Lamerica
Luca Bigazzi – Nasty Love
Franco Di Giacomo – Il Postino: The Postman

1996

Alfio Contini – Beyond the Clouds
Darius Khondji – Stealing Beauty
Dante Spinotti – The Star Maker

1997

Tonino Delli Colli – Marianna Ucrìa
Pasqualino De Santis and Marco Pontecorvo – The Truce
Blasco Giurato – The Game Bag
Giuseppe Lanci – The Prince of Homburg
Italo Petriccione – Nirvana

1998

Tonino Delli Colli – Life Is Beautiful
Luca Bigazzi – Le acrobate
Pasquale Mari – Rehearsals for War

1999

2000s

2000

2001

Lajos Koltai – Malèna
Franco Di Giacomo – Unfair Competition
Roberto Forza – One Hundred Steps

2002

Fabio Olmi – The Profession of Arms
Luca Bigazzi – Burning in the Wind
Arnaldo Catinari – Light of My Eyes

2003

Daniele Nannuzzi – El Alamein: The Line of Fire
Maurizio Calvesi – The Soul Keeper
Gian Filippo Corticelli – Facing Windows
Marco Onorato – The Embalmer
Dante Spinotti – Pinocchio
Fabio Zamarion – Respiro

2004

Italo Petriccione – I'm Not Scared
Danilo Desideri – Love Is Eternal While It Lasts
Fabio Olmi – Singing Behind Screens
Marco Onorato – First Love
Fabio Zamarion –What Will Happen to Us

2005

Luca Bigazzi – The Consequences of Love
Tani Canevari – Manual of Love
Arnaldo Catinari – The Life That I Want
Dante Cecchin – After Midnight
Gian Filippo Corticelli – Cuore Sacro

2006

Luca Bigazzi – Romanzo Criminale
Arnaldo Catinari – The Caiman
Fabio Cianchetti – Our Land
Danilo Desideri – My Best Enemy
Marcello Montarsi – Notte prima degli esami

2007

Fabio Zamarion - The Unknown Woman
Alessandro Pesci – Napoleon and Me
Luca Bigazzi – The Family Friend
Agnès Godard – Nuovomondo
Fabio Olmi – One Hundred Nails

2008

Ramiro Civita – The Girl by the Lake
Luca Bigazzi – The Right Distance
Maurizio Calvesi – I Vicerè
Arnaldo Catinari – Parlami d'amore
Alessandro Pesci – Quiet Chaos

2009

Luca Bigazzi – Il Divo
Arnaldo Catinari – The Demons of St. Petersberg
Marco Onorato – Gomorrah
Italo Petriccione – As God Commands
Vittorio Storaro – Caravaggio

2010s

2010

Daniele Ciprì – Vincere
Enrico Lucidi – Baarìa
Roberto Cimatti – The Man Who Will Come
Nicola Pecorini – The First Beautiful Thing
Maurizio Calvesi – Loose Cannons

2011

Renato Berta – Noi credevamo
Vittorio Omodei Zorini – 20 sigarette
Luca Bigazzi – The Jewel
Fabio Cianchetti – The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Arnaldo Catinari – Angel of Evil

2012

Luca Bigazzi – This Must Be the Place
Paolo Carnera - ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
Simone Zampagni – Caesar Must Die
Alessandro Pesci – We Have a Pope
Roberto Forza – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

2013

Marco Onorato (posthumous) – Reality
Fabio Cianchetti – Me and You
Gherardo Gossi – Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood
Italo Petriccione – Siberian Education
Fabio Zamarion – The Best Offer

2014

Luca Bigazzi – The Great Beauty
Jérôme Alméras – Human Capital
Daniele Ciprì – Salvo
Gian Filippo Corticelli – Fasten Your Seatbelts
Gergely Poharnok – Miele

2015

Vladan Radovic – Black Souls
Fabio Cianchetti – Hungry Hearts
Renato Berta – Leopardi
Italo Petriccione – The Invisible Boy
Fabio Olmi – Greenery Will Bloom Again

2016

Peter Suschitzky – Tale of Tales
Michele D'Attanasio – They Call Me Jeeg
Maurizio Calvesi – Don't Be Bad
Paolo Carnera – Suburra
Luca Bigazzi – Youth

2017

Michele D'Attanasio – Italian Race
Daniele Ciprì – Sweet Dreams
Ferran Paredes Rubio – Indivisible
Vladan Radovic – Like Crazy
Maurizio Calvesi – The Confessions

2018

Gian Filippo Corticelli – Napoli velata
Tim Curtin – A Ciambra
Gianni Mammolotti – Malarazza - Una storia di periferia
Luca Bigazzi – Sicilian Ghost Story
Fabrizio Lucci – The Place

2019

Nicolaj Brüel – Dogman
Michele D'Attanasio – Capri-Revolution
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name
Paolo Carnera – Boys Cry
Hélène Louvart – Happy as Lazzaro

2020s

2020

Daniele Ciprì – The First King: Birth of an Empire
Vladan Radovic – The Traitor
Franco Di Giacomo – Martin Eden
Nicolaj Brüel – Pinocchio
Daria D'Antonio – Ricordi?

References

^ "Cronologia dei premi David di Donatello" [Chronology of David di Donatello awards]. daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2019.