Silver ribbons: Dogman wins everything

"I win the prize for the best staging and …?" Matteo Garrone holds the first Nastro d'Argento of the 72nd edition awards awarded by the Sngci, the national union of Italian film journalists. At the Greek theater of Taormina the applause begins, the true . Soon, there will be eight: Dogman brings back almost everything home . Best film, Best Direction, Two Best Actors (tie for Edoardo Pesce and Marcello Fonte ), production, scenography, sound, editing (ex aequo con Call me with your name by Luca Guadagnino), director of casting: Garrone had against Paolo Sorrentino with Loro I Manetti Bros with Ammore & malavita (triumphant to David of Donatello) and Gabriele Muccino with A casa tutti bene, the authors with the greatest number of nominations

Matteo Garrone: "Because a film has value"

The 2018 edition has brought to the contest 47 films, selected 134 from June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018, including 47 premieres and 51 plays.

"The value of a movie is still tied to the number of viewers who see it in the lobby, but that is not the case" says Matteo Garrone. "Things have changed: movies are watched in different ways, on bigger and bigger TVs and in the cinema with smaller and smaller screens." Garrone the realist. Garrone the lord. Who extends the hand to the brothers Fabio and Damiano D'Innocenzo Nastro of Argento for his first work ( La terra dell & # 39; abbastanza ). " I also dedicate to them the prize, which complains that their film has not seen anyone. I understand them, I've been there. But believe me: the value of a movie depends on something else. "
A They by Paolo Sorrentino win the award for screenplay and Ribbons Elena Sofia Ricci (best actress:" I thank Veronica Lario for existing, otherwise I do not would not be here ", Kasia Smutniak and Riccardo Scamarcio . Like a cat in the ring road is the comedy of the year, while Ammore and Malavita wins for music and song A Edoardo Leo The Persol Prize – Character of the Year as protagonist of I stop when I want – Ad honorem for I'm here and for the performance at the Dopofestival of Sanremo. Two career awards: to Gigi Proietti and Mbadimo Ghini celebrating forty years of career

Ligabue, living "his Italy"

" Stand in the director's chair that means fighting more than singing but it also means having the chance to be able to express the things I have to say in another way, with a different space and instruments, "says Luciano Ligabue, who received the Hamilton's Nastri Prize for Behind the Camera – a prize dedicated to a special beginning or return behind the camera, as was already the case in Los Angeles with the Hamilton Prize edition – for Made in Italy his third directed at 20 years of Radiofreccia in turn celebrated in 1999 with three Nastri d 'Argento. One year after the considerations made with Stefano Accorsi and Kasia Smutniak in <i > Made in Italy, and with everything that happened in the middle, Italy does not seem so different from Ligabue: "The Italians do not change from one year to the next: they are beautiful because they are Italian" he says before leaving for Benevento, where he will inaugurate the second edition of the National Film and Television Festival on July 4th.