To be sure, an online award voted on solely by the Italian public isn’t exactly a high profile precursor or anything (more than partly due to coming a few months after the Oscars…among other things), but any award that recognizes ‘Drive’ as its Best Picture and Nicolas Winding Refn as its Best Director is good in my book. Throw in other winners like Michael Fassbender for Best Actor and Carey Mulligan for Best Supporting Actress (both for ‘Shame’), and this is well worth sharing. You can see the full list of winners after the jump, but I’ll just say this…if only the Oscars could have looked more like this last year, then we’d all be a lot happier I think. Alas…
Best Picture: Drive
Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)
Best Italian Film: Habemus Papam
Best Animated Film: Arrietty
Best Actor: Michael Fassbender (Shame)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt (The Tree of Life)
Best Supporting Actress: Carey Mulligan (Shame)
Best Original Screenplay: Midnight in Paris
Best Adapted Screenplay: Carnage
Best Editing: Drive
Best Cinematography: The Tree of Life
Best Soundtrack: Drive
Best Special Effects: Hugo Cabret
Special prize for Best European film: Melancholia
Special prize for Best First Film: Scialla! Celeste and Body
Special Award for Lifetime Achievement: Bud Spencer and Terence Hill
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One can dream, right?
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
The one that really stands out to me is Arrietty winning for Animated Film. It was the only animation that I really enjoyed last year. But overall great picks, the Italian public clearly have great taste in movies!! Oh, and is anyone else surprised by the lack of Italian films? You’d never see a winners list like this at the Goyas or Cesars.
Daniel Ashtiany(Quote) (Reply)
I wasn’t big on Arrietty, but that’s just me.
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)