‘Parthenope’ & ‘The Great Ambition’ Lead Italian David Di Donatello Nominations​on April 7, 2025 at 11:21 am

Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope and Andre Segre’s The Great Ambition have taken the lead at the nomination stage for Italy’s upcoming 70th David di Donatello awards.

The titles have secured 15 nominations each including for best film and director.

Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio and Valeria Golino and Nicolangelo Gelormini’s The Art Of Joy received 14 nominations each, followed by Gloria! and Familia with nine and eight nominations respectively.

Sorrentino’s Parthenope, following a woman from her birth in 1950 to the current day against the backdrop of Naples, world premiered in Cannes.

Biopic The Great Ambition stars Elio Germano as 1970s and 1980s left-wing political leader Enrico Berlinguer, who nearly led the Communist party into power.

Vermiglio world premiered in Venice where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and went on to be Italy’s 2025 Oscars submission.

Set in a remote mountain village in 1944, the drama revolves around a family whose life is disrupted by the arrival of a deserted soldier.

The 70th David di Donatello ceremony will take place on May 7 at Rome’s historic studio complex Cinecittà.