41st David di Donatello

41st David di Donatello
Date	8 June 1996
Site	Teatro Eliseo, Rome
Hosted by	Amanda Sandrelli Massimiliano Pani
Highlights
Best Picture	August Vacation
Most awards	The Star Maker , Celluloide (4)
Most nominations	The Star Maker (11)
Television coverage
Network	TELE+1
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The 41st David di Donatello ceremony, presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on 8 June 1996. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Winners and nominees

Best Film August Vacation , directed by Paolo Virzì Celluloide , directed by Carlo Lizzani Stealing Beauty , directed by Bernardo Bertolucci The Star Maker , directed by Giuseppe Tornatore	Best Producer Pietro Innocenzi, Roberto Di Girolamo – Palermo – Milan One Way Angelo Barbagallo, Nanni Moretti – The Second Time Amedeo Pagani – Ulysses' Gaze
Best Director Giuseppe Tornatore - The Star Maker Bernardo Bertolucci – Stealing Beauty Carlo Lizzani – Celluloide Paolo Virzì – August Vacation	Best New Director Stefano Incerti – The Meter Reader Mimmo Calopresti – The Second Time Leonardo Pieraccioni – The Graduates
Best Actor Giancarlo Giannini – Celluloide Sergio Castellitto – The Star Maker Ennio Fantastichini – August Vacation Giancarlo Giannini – Palermo – Milan One Way	Best Actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi – The Second Time Virna Lisi – Follow Your Heart Laura Morante – August Vacation Lina Sastri – Celluloide
Best Supporting Actor Leopoldo Trieste – The Star Maker Raoul Bova – Palermo – Milan One Way Alessandro Haber – The Graduates	Best Supporting Actress Marina Confalone – The Second Time Stefania Sandrelli – The Nymph Lina Sastri – Strangled Lives
David di Donatello for Best Screenplay Furio Scarpelli , Ugo Pirro , Carlo Lizzani – Celluloide Francesco Bruni, Paolo Virzì – August Vacation Fabio Rinaudo, Giuseppe Tornatore – The Star Maker	Best Cinematography Alfio Contini – Beyond the Clouds Darius Khondji – Stealing Beauty Dante Spinotti – The Star Maker
Best Production Design Francesco Bronzi – The Star Maker Enrico Job – The Nymph Gianni Silvestri – Stealing Beauty	Best Score Manuel De Sica – Celluloide Ennio Morricone – The Star Maker Armando Trovaioli – The Story of a Poor Young Man
Best Editing Cecilia Zanuso – Who Killed Pasolini? Ugo De Rossi – Palermo – Milan One Way Massimo Quaglia – The Star Maker Pietro Scalia – Stealing Beauty Carla Simoncelli – Strangled Lives	Best Sound Giancarlo Laurenzi – Palermo – Milan One Way Massimo Loffredi – The Star Maker Alessandro Zanon – The Second Time
Best Costumes Jenny Beavan – Jane Eyre Beatrice Bordone – The Star Maker Luciano Sagoni – Celluloide	Best Foreign Film Nelly and Mr. Arnaud , directed by Claude Sautet Mighty Aphrodite , directed by Woody Allen Smoke , directed by Wayne Wang
Best Foreign Actor Harvey Keitel – Smoke Michel Serrault – Nelly and Mr. Arnaud Woody Allen – Mighty Aphrodite	Best Foreign Actress Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking Emmanuelle Béart – Nelly and Mr. Arnaud Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
Special David Virna Lisi Rita Cecchi Gori Aurelio De Laurentiis Giovanni Di Clemente	Lifetime Achievement David (for the 40th anniversary) Vittorio Gassman Gina Lollobrigida

References

1. "David, Tornatore e' il favorito". La Repubblica . 8 May 1996. p. 36.
2. "Il David a Giannini e alla Bruni Tedeschi". Corriere della Sera . 9 June 1996. p. 27.
3. Rota, Alessandra. "David al cinema italiano che va in ferie ad agosto". La Repubblica. p. 29.
4. "David di Donatello 1996". ComingSoon.it (in Italian). Retrieved 30 July 2025.