Loose Cannons wins Golden Globes

by c.d.m.

02/07/2010 - The foreign press in Italy has chosen Loose Cannons as Best Film of the year. Ferzan Ozpetek’s comedy, produced Fandango and RAI Cinema and sold to 27 countries so far, triumphed at last night’s Golden Globes ceremony with three more prizes: Best Screenplay, Cinematography and Emerging Actress (Nicole Grimaudo).

Other top awards include Best Director, to Giuseppe Tornatore for Baaria; Best Feature Debut to Rocco Papaleo’s Basilicata Coast to Coast; and the Foreign Press Grand Prize to The Man Who Will Come by Giorgio Diritti.

2009/2010 Golden Globe winners:

BEST FILM


 Loose Cannons [trailer] by Ferzan Ozpetek

BEST DIRECTOR


Giuseppe Tornatore for Baaria [trailer]

BEST FEATURE DEBUT


Basilicata Coast to Coast [trailer] di Rocco Papaleo

BEST COMEDY


Io, loro e Lara [trailer] by Carlo Verdone

FOREIGN PRESS GRAND PRIZE


The Man Who Will Come [trailer, film focus] by Giorgio Diritti

BEST SCREENPLAY


Ferzan Ozpetek- Ivan Cotroneo for Loose Cannons

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY


Maurizio Calvesi for Loose Cannons by Ferzan Ozpetek

BEST SCORE


Ennio Morricone for Baaria by Giuseppe Tornatore

BEST ACTOR


Christian De Sica for The Youngest Son [trailer] by Pupi Avati

BEST ACTRESS


 Stefania Sandrelli for The First Good Thing [trailer] by Paolo Virzi

BEST EMERGING ACTOR/ACTRESS


Nicola Nocella per The Youngest Son by Pupi Avati

DISCOVERY (ACTOR)


 Checco Zalone per Cado dalle nubi [trailer] di Gennaro Nunziante

DISCOVERY (ACTRESS)


 Nicole Grimaudo for Loose Cannons by Ferzan Ozpetek

UNFORGETTABLE FILM


Focaccia Blues [trailer] by Nico Cirasola

SPECIAL COSTUME PRIZE


 Nanà Cecchi for Christine, Cristina [trailer] by Stefania Sandrelli

BEST PRODUCER


 Pietro Valsecchi for Cado dalle nubi by Gennaro Nunziante

GLOBO D’ORO ECCELLENZA


 National Film School of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

BEST EUROPEAN FILM


The Ghost Writer [trailer] by Roman Polanski

SPECIAL GOLDEN GLOBE


Negli occhi by Daniele Anzellotti and Francesco Del Grosso

BEST DISTRIBUTOR
01 Distribution for The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski

CAREER AWARDS


 Ermanno Olmi, Giancarlo Giannini, Vittorio Storaro

EUROPEAN GOLDEN GLOBE


Gabriele Muccino

50TH ANNIVERSARY GOLDEN GLOBE


Gina Lollobrigida

(Translated from Italian)