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The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director (Italian: David di Donatello per il miglior regista straniero) is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy’s answer to the Oscars".[1] It was awarded by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of non-Italian film directors during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was given from 1966 until 1990.[2]
Winners and nominees[edit]
Winners are indicated in bold.
1960s[edit]
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970s[edit]
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
- Miloš Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1977
- Akira Kurosawa - Dersu Uzala
1978
- Herbert Ross - The Goodbye Girl ex aequo
- Ridley Scott - The Duellists ex aequo
1979
- Miloš Forman - Hair
1980s[edit]
1980
- Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
1981
- Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
- Pál Gábor - Angi Vera
- Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
1982
- Margarethe von Trotta - Die bleierne Zeit
- István Szabó - Mephisto
- Warren Beatty - Reds
1983
- Steven Spielberg - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
- Blake Edwards - Victor Victoria
- Costa Gavras - Missing
1984
- Ingmar Bergman - Fanny och Alexander
- Woody Allen - Zelig
- Andrzej Wajda - Danton
1985
- Miloš Forman - Amadeus
- Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
- Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
1986
- Akira Kurosawa - Ran
- John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
- Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
- Emir Kusturica - When Father Was Away on Business
1987
- James Ivory - A Room with a View
- Luis Puenzo - The Official Story
- Alain Cavalier - Thérèse
1988
- Louis Malle - Au revoir les enfants
- Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket
- John Huston - The Dead
1989
- Pedro Almodóvar - Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
- Barry Levinson - Rain Man
- Woody Allen - Another Woman
1990s[edit]
1990
- Louis Malle - Milou en mai
References[edit]
- ^ Ariston Anderson, "'Spotlight,' 'Inside Out' Among Nominees for Italian Oscars," The Hollywood Reporter, 22 March 2016, URL accessed 24 July 2016.
- ^ "Cronologia dei premi David di Donatello" [Chronology of David di Donatello awards]. daviddidonatello.it (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2019. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
External links[edit]
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director at IMDb
- David di Donatello official website