David di Donatello for Best Sound

Annual Italian film award

The David di Donatello for Best Sound (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior suono) 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 sound technicians who have worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Born in the 1988 edition of the David di Donatello award show as David di Donatello for Best Sound Engineer, from the 2017 edition onward, it has been called David di Donatello for Best Sound in order to recognize all sound technicians.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are indicated in bold.

1980s

1988

Raffaele De Luca – Ultimo minuto

1989

Candido Raini – Mignon Has Come to Stay

1990s

1990

Remo Ugolinelli – Open Doors

1991

Tiziano Crotti – Mediterraneo (ex aequo)
Remo Ugolinelli – Ultra (ex aequo)

1992

Gaetano Carito – The Rubber Wall

1993

Remo Ugolinelli – The Escort

1994

Tullio Morganti – Sud
Benito Alchimede – Let's Not Keep in Touch
Franco Borni – Caro diario

1995

Alessandro Zanon – Lamerica
Mario Iaquone and Daghi Rondanini – Nasty Love
Tullio Morganti – No Skin

1996

Giancarlo Laurenzi – Palermo – Milan One Way
Massimo Loffredi – The Star Maker
Alessandro Zanon – The Second Time

1997

Tullio Morganti – Nirvana
Maurizio Argentieri – The Prince of Homburg
Gaetano Carito – A Cold, Cold Winter
Tiziano Crotti – Sacred Silence
Bruno Pupparo – My Generation

1998

Tullio Morganti – Ovosodo
Tullio Morganti – Life Is Beautiful
Alessandro Zanon – April

1999

Gaetano Carito – Radiofreccia
Amedeo Casati – Not of this World
Bruno Pupparo – Marriages

2000s

2000

Maurizio Argentieri – Bread and Tulips
Tullio Morganti – Il dolce rumore della vita
Bruno Pupparo – But Forever in My Mind

2001

Gaetano Carito – The Last Kiss
Fulgenzio Ceccon – One Hundred Steps
Alessandro Zanon – The Son's Room

2002

Remo Ugolinelli – Light of My Eyes

2003

Andrea Giorgio Moser – El Alamein: The Line of Fire
Maurizio Argentieri – Casomai
Gaetano Carito – Remember Me, My Love
Gaetano Carito – Maximum Velocity (V-Max)
Marco Grillo – Facing Windows

2004

Fulgenzio Ceccon – The Best of Youth
Gaetano Carito – Good Morning, Night
Mario Iaquone – Don't Move
Mauro Lazzaro – I'm Not Scared
Miguel Polo – What Will Happen to Us

2005

Alessandro Zanon – The Keys to the House
Mario Dallimonti – Alla luce del sole
Gaetano Carito and Pierpaolo Merafino – Manual of Love
Marco Grillo – Cuore Sacro
Daghi Rondanini and Emanuele Cecere – The Consequences of Love

2006

Alessandro Zanon – The Caiman
Benito Alchimede and Maurizio Grassi – Notte prima degli esami
Gaetano Carito – My Best Enemy
Mario Iaquone – Romanzo Criminale
Bruno Pupparo – The Beast in the Heart

2007

Bruno Pupparo – My Brother Is an Only Child
Mario Iaquone – Along the Ridge
Pierre Yves Labouè – Nuovomondo
Gilberto Martinelli – The Unknown Woman
Marco Grillo – Saturn in Opposition

2008

Alessandro Zanon – The Girl by the Lake
Gaetano Carito – Quiet Chaos
François Musy – Days and Clouds
Bruno Pupparo – Black and White
Remo Ugolinelli – The Right Distance

2009

Maricetta Lombardo – Gomorrah
Emanuele Cecere – Il divo
Marco Fiumara – Many Kisses Later
Gaetano Carito, Marco Grillo, and Bruno Pupparo – Italians
Bruno Pupparo – Si può fare

2010s

2010

Carlo Missidenti – The Man Who Will Come
Faouzi Thabet – Baarìa
Bruno Pupparo – Genitori & figli – Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Mario Iaquone – The First Beautiful Thing
Gaetano Carito – Vincere

2011

Bruno Pupparo – La nostra vita
Mario Iaquone – 20 Cigarettes
Francesco Liotard – Basilicata Coast to Coast
Paolo Benvenuti and Simone Paolo Olivero – Le quattro volte
Gaetano Carito and Maricetta Lombardo – Noi credevamo

2012

Benito Alchimede and Brando Mosca – Caesar Must Die
Gilberto Martinelli – ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
Alessandro Zanon – We Have a Pope
Fulgenzio Ceccon – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Ray Cross and William Sarokin – This Must Be the Place

2013

Remo Ugolinelli and Alessandro Palmerini – Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood
Gaetano Carito and Pierpaolo Merafino – Dormant Beauty
Fulgenzio Ceccon – Long Live Freedom
Maricetta Lombardo – Reality
Gilberto Martinelli – The Best Offer

2014

Roberto Mozzarelli – Human Capital
Maurizio Argentieri – Those Happy Years
Angelo Bonanni – I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Emanuele Cecere – The Great Beauty
Marco Grillo and Mirko Pantalla – Fasten Your Seatbelts

2015

Stefano Campus – Black Souls
Remo Ugolinelli – An Italian Name
Alessandro Zanon – Mia Madre
Gilberto Martinelli – The Invisible Boy
Francesco Liotard – Greenery Will Bloom Again

2016

Angelo Bonanni – Don't Be Bad
Umberto Montesanti – Perfect Strangers
Maricetta Lombardo – Tale of Tales
Valentino Giannì – They Call Me Jeeg
Emanuele Cecere – Youth

2017

Angelo Bonanni, Diego De Santis, Mirko Perri, and Michele Mazzucco – Italian Race
Valentino Giannì, Fabio Conca, Sandro Rossi, Omar Abouzaid, Lilio Rosato, and Francesco Cucinelli – Indivisible
Filippo Porcari, Federica Ripani, Claudio Spinelli, Marco Marinelli, and Massimo Marinelli – La stoffa dei sogni
Alessandro Bianchi, Luca Novelli, Daniela Bassani, Fabrizio Quadroli, and Gianni Pallotto – Like Crazy
Gaetano Carito, Pierpaolo Lorenzo, Lilio Rosato, Roberto Cappannelli, and Gianluca Basili – Sweet Dreams

2018

Adriano Di Lorenzo, Alberto Padoan, Marc Bastien, Eric Grattepain, and Franco Piscopo – Nico, 1988
Giuseppe Tripodi, Florian Fabre, and Julien Perez – A Ciambra
Giancarlo Rutigliano, Andrea Cutillo, and Giorgio Molfini – Cinderella the Cat
Lavinia Burcheri, Simone Costantino, Claudio Spinelli, Gianluca Basili, Sergio Basili, Antonio Tirinelli, and Nadia Paone – Love and Bullets
Fabio Conca, Giuliano Marcaccini, Daniele De Angelis, Giuseppe D'Amato, Antonio Giannantonio, Dario Calvari, and Alessandro Checcacci – Napoli velata

2019

Maricetta Lombardo, Alessandro Molaioli, Davide Favargiotti, Mirko Perri, Mauro Eusepi, and Michele Mazzucco – Dogman
Yves-Marie Omnes, Thomas Gastinel, Davide Favargiotti, Jean-Pierre Laforce – Call Me by Your Name
Alessandro Zanon, Alessandro Palmerini, Alessandro Piazzese, Marta Billingsley, Stefano Grosso, Marzia Cordò, Giancarlo Rutigliano, and Paolo Segat – Capri-Revolution
Christophe Giovannoni, Julien D'Esposito, Marta Billingsley, and François Musy – Happy as Lazzaro
Emanuele Cecere, Francesco Sabez, Paolo Testa, Silvia Moraes, Alessandro Feletti, Alessandro Quaglio, Mirko Perri, Mauro Eusepi, and Marco Saitta – Loro

2020s

2020

Angelo Bonanni, Davide D'Onofrio, Mirko Perri, Mauro Eusepi, and Michele Mazzucco – The First King: Birth of an Empire
Daniele Maraniello, Max Gobiet, Giuseppe D'Amato, Francesco Albertelli, and Marcos Molina – 5 Is the Perfect Number
Denny de Angelis, Simone Panetta, Stefano Grosso, and Michael Kaczmarek – Martin Eden
Maricetta Lombardo, Luca Novelli, Daniela Bassani, Stefano Grosso, and Gianni Pallotto – Pinocchio
Gaetano Carito, Adriano Di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo Merafino, Lilio Rosato, Gianluca Basili, and Francesco Tumminello – The Traitor

References

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