04/06/2007

Director Giuseppe Tornatore has won the 2007 Silver Ribbon (Nastro d’Argento) for Best Italian Film with The Unknown [+see also:
trailer
film profile], which also picked up prizes for Best Score (Ennio Morricone) and Best Supporting Actor (Alessandro Haber).

Kim Rossi Stuart won the Best Debut Director award from SNGCI, the Italian film journalists union, for Along the Ridge [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kim Rossi Stuart
film profile].

Saturno contro won four Ribbons: Best Screenplay (director Ferzan Ozpetek and Gianni Romoli), Best Actress (Margherita Buy), Best Supporting Actress (Ambra Angiolini) and Best Original Song ("Passione" by Neffa).

Also receiving Ribbons at Taormina’s Teatro Antico on Saturday, June 23 will be Nanni Moretti and Angelo Barbagallo, as Best Producers for The Caiman [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile] (three Ribbons overall), and Marco Bellocchio (as writer of the best film story for The Wedding Director, which also walked away with the Best Editing prize). The Best Documentary Silver Ribbon of 2007 went to director Agostino Ferrente for The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile].

The European film of the year was voted Volver [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Agustín Almodóvar
interview: Carmen Maura
interview: Pedro Almodóvar
interview: Pénélope Cruz
film profile] by Pedro Almodovar.

On the evening of the awards ceremony the SNGCI will present Special Ribbons of the Year to Michele Placido, Gabriele Muccino and Fausto Brizzi and the European Ribbons to Sergio Castellitto and Martina Gedeck, star of the film The Lives of Others [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Florian Henckel von Donners…
interview: Ulrich Muehe
film profile].

(Translated from Italian)