David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
Italian film award (1966–1990)
The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior regista straniero) is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy’s answer to the Oscars".[1] It was awarded by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of non-Italian film directors during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was given from 1966 until 1990.[2]
Winners and nominees
Winners are indicated in bold.
1960s
1966
- John Huston - The Bible: In the Beginning
1967
- David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
1968
- Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
1969
- Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby
1970s
1970
- John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
1971
- Claude Lelouch - Le Voyou
1972
- John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday
1973
- Bob Fosse - Cabaret
1974
- Ingmar Bergman - Viskningar och rop
1975
- Billy Wilder - The Front Page
1976
- Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977
- Akira Kurosawa - Dersu Uzala
1978
- Herbert Ross - The Goodbye Girl ex aequo
- Ridley Scott - The Duellists ex aequo
1979
- Miloš Forman - Hair
1980s
1980
1981
1982
- Margarethe von Trotta - Die bleierne Zeit
- István Szabó - Mephisto
- Warren Beatty - Reds
1983
- Steven Spielberg - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
- Blake Edwards - Victor Victoria
- Costa Gavras - Missing
1984
- Ingmar Bergman - Fanny och Alexander
- Woody Allen - Zelig
- Andrzej Wajda - Danton
1985
- Miloš Forman - Amadeus
- Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
- Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
1986
- Akira Kurosawa - Ran
- John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
- Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
- Emir Kusturica - When Father Was Away on Business
1987
- James Ivory - A Room with a View
- Luis Puenzo - The Official Story
- Alain Cavalier - Thérèse
1988
- Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants
- Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket
- John Huston - The Dead
1989
- Pedro Almodóvar - Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
- Barry Levinson - Rain Man
- Woody Allen - Another Woman
1990s
1990
References
- ^ Ariston Anderson, "'Spotlight,' 'Inside Out' Among Nominees for Italian Oscars," The Hollywood Reporter, 22 March 2016, URL accessed 24 July 2016.
- ^ "Cronologia dei premi David di Donatello" [Chronology of David di Donatello awards]. daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
External links
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director at IMDb
- David di Donatello official website
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- Best New Director
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Producer
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Cinematography
- Best Score
- Best Original Song
- Best Sets and Decorations
- Best Costumes
- Best Make-Up [it]
- Best Hair Design [it]
- Best Editing
- Best Sound
- Best Visual Effects [it]
- Best Documentary [it]
- Best Short Film
- Best International Film
- David Youth
- David Special [it]
- Best Screenplay
- Best European Film
- Best Foreign Director
- Best Foreign Producer [it]
- Best Foreign Actor
- Best Foreign Actress
- Best Foreign Score
- Best Foreign Screenplay
- Best New Actor [it]
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