05/06/2012 - Film journalists declare Caesar Must Die film of the year. The most nominated films also include Easy! and A.C.A.B.. Award ceremony on June 30 in Taormina

Ferzan Ozpetek's Magnificent Presence [+see also:
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interview: Emanuele Crialese
film profile], 5 nominations) and Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be the Place [+see also:
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A surprise 5 nominations have also been given to Carlo Verdone's film about fathers who are separated from their wives,A Flat for Three [+see also:
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interview: Stefano Sollima
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interview: Andrea Segre
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4 nominations went to Giuliano Montaldo 's L'industriale, including Best Film Story and Best Actress (Carolina Crescentini). The Best Actress group is completed by Donatella Finocchiaro, Claudia Gerini, Valeria Golino and Micaela Ramazzotti. The Best Actor will be chosen out of Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Roberto Herlitzka and Vinicio Marchioni. In the Supporting Actress group are: Barbora Bobulova, Michela Cescon, Alessandra Mastronardi, Paola Minaccioni and outsider Elisa Di Eusanio (Good As You [+see also:
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Alongside Verdone's film and Paolo Genovese's Immaturi, il viaggio [+see also:
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interview: Ivan Cotroneo
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interview: Michel Hazanavicius
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Finally, the film journalists awarded the Nastro of the Year 2012 to Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die [+see also:
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film profile] , already a winner in Berlin and at the David di Donatello awards, as well as of an award to the film's cast, the prisoners of the Rebibbia prison, some of whom were present last night, exceptionally, in the Villa Medici, the base of the French Academy in Rome, where the nominations were announced (without a red carpet, in support of the national day of mourning for the victims of the earthquake in Emilia Romagna).

The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 30, in Taormina.

(Translated from Italian)