Awards
SFF 2012
Best Movie Martino’s Summer by Massimo Natale
Best actor Treat Williams for Martino’s Summer by Massimo Natale
Best actress Tilda Swinton for I’m Love by Luca Guadagnino
Best direction Shock by Lizzani, Gregoretti, Maselli, Russo
Audience Award Loose Cannons by Ferzan Ozpetek
Special mention to documentary The Voice of Body by Luca Vullo
Special mention to Documentary Un Sueño a Mitad by Francesco Apolloni
Special SFF Life Time Career Achievement Award 2012 To Vanessa Redgrave
-
S.F.F. 2011Best Film Baaria by Giuseppe Tornatore
Best Short film Rita by Grassadonia and Piazza
Best Documentary Return to the Aeolian Island by Giovanna Taviani
Audience Award The Trick in the Sheet by Alfonso Arau
Best Actor Davide Coco for Man of Glass
Best Actress Isabella Ragonese and Valeria Solarino for The Sea Purple
Special Mentions:
Maria Grazia Cucinotta as producer of The Sea Purple and The Trick in the Sheet
Short film The Wedding by Tilde Di Dio
Documentary Sicily for Africa by Roberto Damiata
Documentary From Ducrot Workshops to the National School of Cinem by Luigi Valente
Lifetime Achievement Award to Claudia Cardinale
Special Award to Beppe Fiorello -
S.F.F. 2010Lifetime Achievement Award to Lando Buzzanca
Best Direction Little Boy Red (Rosso Malpelo) by Pasquale Scimeca
Best Actor Alessio Boni for Caravaggio by Angelo Longoni
Best Actress Caterina Vertova for My Son by Luciano Odorisio
Best Short Film The Light Of The Dreams (Il raggio dei sogni) by Roberto D’Amiata
Best TV Movie Caravaggio by Angelo Longoni
Best Film Motherland ( La Terramadre) by Nello La Marca
Best Documentary ex aequo: Killing Is My Fate (Matar Es Mi Destino ) by Giovanni Massa
Joe’s Sea (Il mare di Joe) by Enzo Incontro
Special Mentions:
- Sulafa Hijazi for long animation film The Jasmine Birds ( L’uccello del gelsomino)
- Lorenzo Muscoso for documentary Emotions Without Boundaries
- Simone Catania for mockumentary The Legend Of The Blue Fish (La leggenda del pesce azzurro)
- Mario Verger short animation film for Pasolini Requiem (Special Mention +MB CINEMATEQUE AWARD)
- Giordano Petri for For Sophia (Per Sophia) by Ilaria Paganelli (Feature film) -
S.F.F. 2009Best Film Cover Boy by Carmine Amoroso
Best Direction The Sicilian Girl ( La siciliana ribelle) by Marco Amenta
Best TV Movie The Viceroys (I Vicere’) by Roberto Faenza
Best Actor Luca Lionello for Cover Boy by Carmine Amoroso
Best Actress Veronica D’Agostino for The Sicilian Girl( La siciliana ribelle) by Marco Amenta
Best Short Film A Heart Inside The Sea (Un cuore dentro al mare) by Claudia La Bianca
Best Documentary The Island Inside: A Journey Through Vincenzo Consolo’s Sicily (L’isola in me: in viaggio con xVincenzo Consolo) by Ludovica Tortora De Falco
Special Mentions:
- Being Handy (Mi chiamo Handy) short film, by Vincenzo Cosentino
- Faida 2 The Return (Faida 2, il ritorno) short film, by Giorgio Galieti
- Vara, documentary, by Joseph Gardella
- Easter In Sicily (Pasqua in Sicilia) documentary by Sigal Bujman
- Asuka Barden, for the music of the short film A Heart Inside the Sea (Un cuore dentro al mare) by Claudia La Bianca -
S.F.F. 2008Lifetime Career Achievement Award to Franco Nero
Best Feature Film The Unknown Woman (La Sconosciuta) by Giuseppe Tornatore
Best Director Emanuele Crialese for Golden Door (Nuovomondo)
Best Actor Michele Placido for The Unknown Woman (La Sconosciuta)
Best Actress Charlotte Gainsbourg for Golden Door (Nuovomondo)
Best Short Film With Love, Rossana (Con amore, Rossana) by Paula Boschi and Francesca Calligaro
Best Documentary Stories of Sicily (Racconti di Sicilia) by Sasa’ Salvaggio
Special Mentions:
- RAI Radio Televisione Italiana for the TV Movie Detective Montalbano (Il Commissario Montalbano)by Alberto Sironi
- RAI Radio Televisione Italiana for the TV Movie The Moon’s Child ( Il figlio della luna) by Gianfranco Albano
- Jacques Lipkau Goyard and Marco Bonini producers of the feature film Billo, The Grand Dakhaar (Billo, il grande xDakar) by Laura Muscardin
- Cut & Paste, (Copia e incolla), feature film by Hala Kalil (Egypt)
- Simultaneous Worlds (Mondi simultanei) short film by Mauro Pace
- Vito Zagarrio for the feature film Three Days Of Anarchy (Tre giorni d’anarchia) -
S.F.F. 2007Best Director Franco Battiato for Musikanten
Best Film Letters from Sicily (Lettere dalla Sicilia) by Manuel Giliberti
Best Soundtrack Antonio Di Pofi for Letters from Sicily (Lettere dalla Sicilia) by Manuel Giliberti
Best Short Film Phaedra (Fedra) by Salvo Bitonti
Best Acting Mita Medici for Phaedra (Fedra) by Salvo Bitonti
Best Original Music Dario Arcidiacono for Phaedra (Fedra) by Salvo Bitonti
Special Mentions:
- Razam Hijazi for the long animation film The Thread of Life
- Andrea Traina for the short film Tempus Fugit