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Nastri d'Argento: Tornatore’s film The Best Offer celebrated

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- Italian film reporters give six awards to the film, which already triumphed at the David awards, four go to The Great Beauty by Sorrentino. Golino is awarded best directing debut for Miele

After winning six awards including best film and best director at the David di Donatello awards, The Best Offer [+see also:
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by Giuseppe Tornatore is also shining at the Nastro d’Argento, with prizes given out by the Sindacato Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI, the union of Italian cinema reporters) last Saturday in Taormina. The refined feature length film starring Geoffrey Rush won six out of nine overall nominations: director of best film, production (Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia), cinematography (Maurizio Sabatini and Raffaella Giovannetti), costumes (Maurizio Millenotti, also a winner with Reality [+see also:
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), editing (Massimo Quaglia) and original score (the great Ennio Morricone, earning his tenth Nastro d'Argento).

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The direct competitor of Tornatore’s film, The Great Beauty [+see also:
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by Paolo Sorrentino, which was also nominated in nine categories, won four Nastri awards: photography (Luca Bigazzi), sound (Emanuele Cecere, also a winner with Miele [+see also:
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) and supporting actors: Carlo Verdone and Sabrina Ferilli. Best screenplay went to Roberto Andò and Angelo Pasquini for Viva la libertà [+see also:
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, by Andò himself.

Best comedy went to Viaggio sola [+see also:
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by Maria Sole Tognazzi, best director’s debut to Valeria Golino for Miele.

“The Nastri awards have never before marked such a changeover in Italian cinema,” Laura Delli Colli, president of SNGCI underlined, “signalling the coming of age of a new generation of actors and important newcomers such as Valeria Golino who won during a particularly rich season of debut films.”

For Miele as well as for Giorgio Diritti’s There Will Come a Day [+see also:
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, Jasmine Trinca was named this year’s best actress. Best actor went to Aniello Arena, for his role in Reality by Matteo Garrone. Beyond best actor and costumes, the film also won a Nastro for the script, written by Massimo Gaudioso with Garrone himself. The Cremonini-Morandi duo was awarded the Nastro for best song: Amor mio by Cremonini, sung by Morandi in Edoardo Gabriellini’s film The Landlords [+see also:
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. For a complete list of winners, click here.

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(Translated from French)

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