Disappointment for Italy at the Oscars.
The 95th ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles left the Italian team without any awards, even if getting nominated is certainly already a great achievement.
Director Alice Rohrwacher returns without statuettes, given for a long time as favorite, nominated for an Oscar for the live action short film Le Pupille, beaten by An Irish Goodbye by Tom Berkeley and Ross White.
Nothing to do even for the veteran Aldo Signoretti in Elvis' make-up and hairstyling team: the award went to Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley's make-up and hairstyling for Darren Aronofsky's The Whale.
There were also other Italians in the competition in some way: the producers Ilbe by Andrea Iervolino and Lady Bacardi and We Do It Together by Chiara Tilesi for Tell It like a Woman, a collective film by 7 female directors including Maria Sole Tognazzi, competing for the best original song Applause by Dianne Warren won instead by Naatu Naatu from the Indian film RRR.
And there was also the actor Lorenzo Zurzolo at the Oscars protagonist of Jerzy Skolimowski's film Eo among the candidates for best international film, whose prize was however won by German Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front.