Key facts
- Awarded for
- The best of Italian and foreign motion picture productions
- Date
- 1955 ; 71 years ago ( 1955 )
- Country
- Italy
- Presented by
- Academy of Italian Cinema
- First award
- 5 June 1956
- Website
- www .daviddidonatello .it
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film award
- Subclass of
- film award
- Named after
- David
- Country
- Italy
- Original language
- Italian
- Official website
- www.daviddidonatello.it
- Image
- David di Donatello miglior canzone originale- Alessandro Nelson Garofalo.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:David di Donatello
- Commons category
- David di Donatello
- inception
- 1956-00-00
- category for recipients of this award
- Category:David di Donatello winners
- conferred by
- Accademia del Cinema Italiano
- native label
- Ente David di Donatello
- topic has template
- Template:David di Donatello
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Encyclopedic overview
The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's David, a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (the Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award categories, as of 2023. The industry-voted awards are considered the Italian equivalent of the American Academy Awards.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “David di Donatello” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.