News 2009

Winners 2008

Last night at the Casa del Cinema in Roma were awarded the

Italian DVD Awards 2008

After the Nominations voted by more than 500 journalists and
sector experts,
the juries have declared winners:

Best DVD

Il Cavaliere oscuro (The Dark Knight)

(Warner)

Best Italian DVD

(ex aequo)

Il Divo (The Divine)

(Lucky Red)

Best Italian DVD

(ex aequo)

Gomorra (Gomorrah)

(01 Distribution)

Best Classic DVD

La Sfida del Samurai (Yojimbo (Original title: 用心棒 Yōjinbō))

(Mondo Home Entertainment)

Best Classic Italian DVD

Indagine su un cittadino (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion)

(Lucky Red)

Best Special Edition

Il Padrino (The Godfather)

(Paramount)

Best TV Series

Lost 3

(Walt Disney)

Best Italian TV Series

Boris

(Mondo Home Entertainment)

Best Documentary

The Doors

(Universal)

The awards of the public

awarded by the votes on the website of Best Movie

Best DVD

Il cavaliere oscuro (The Dark Knight)

(Warner)

Best Italian DVD

Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (Pardon, but I call you "love"))

(Medusa H. E.)

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The special awards

Special Award Blu ray

Ripley's Home Video

for having realized Per un pugno di dollari (For a Fistful of Dollars)
first Blu-ray Disc of an Italian movie

Special award Dvd Academy

General Video

for Tutto Dante (All Dante) by Roberto Benigni
the most important event in DVD published in 2008

Special Award Dvd Academy

Istituto Luce

box set Marco Bellocchio
for creating a work edited in the first person
by a great master of Italian cinema

Special Award Dvd Academy

Marco Bellocchio

for having taken care in first person
his movies in Dvd

Special Award

Franco Bechis

director of Italia Oggi
for helping to spread an information
useful and accurate of the communication world

Special Award

Stefano Sardo

general manager of Librerie Feltrinelli
for having made a decisive contribution to confer
to the Dvd a cultural and editorial quality

Special Award Dvd Academy

Casa del Cinema in Rome

for the tireless and continuous work for the promotion and the safeguard
of the cinematographic culture in Italy

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Mentions

Special Mention

Istituto Luce Home Video

for having realized La rosa di Bagdad
(The Rose of Baghdad) first Blu-ray Disc of an Italian animated film

Special Mention

Medusa Home Video

for having published
Redacted by Brian De Palma
... when the DVD saves auteur cinema!

The photos of the award ceremony can be downloaded from the website
www.italiandvdawards.it

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