A Dogman Matteo Garrone went eight awards in addition to 'best film’, Also honored for directing, production (the same with Garrone Paolo Del Brocco Rai Cinema), scenography, sound, the assembling (ex aequo with Call me with your name Luca Guadagnino) and also for the casting director and, mostly, for the two leading actors: Marcello source, Cannes winner a few weeks ago, e Edoardo Pesce.
An absolute triumph of an issue - as always with the support of Mibact - Dg Cinema, 
main sponsor BNL Group BNP Paribas - which saw five movies candidates among the most significant of the season and seven 'big names' of filmmaking, beginning, with Garrone, gives Luca Guadagnino, arrived this year at the finish of the Academy Awards and Paolo Sorrentino winning for Their - wrote with Umberto Contarello - Nastro for Best Screenplay and three awards for actors: Elena Sofia Ricci best Female Lead (which also receives the Wella Prize for the image), Kasia Smutniak e Riccardo Scamarcio, no players of the year. Yet: is Like a cat on the bypass of Riccardo Milani the comedy 2018 for which, the tenth anniversary of the award dedicated to comedy, the reward tapes as best actors Paola Cortellesi e Antonio 
Albanese. On the stage of the Teatro Antico - an issue that in recent years made in Taormina with the support of the Sicilian Region, Department of Tourism, Sport and Entertainment, Sicily Film Commission, as part of the Contemporary Senses project, Fondazione Taormina Arte - two awards for music in Pivio e Aldo De Scalzi with lyrics Nelson, and for best song -
Bang Bang played by Serena Rossi, Giampaolo Morelli e Franco Ricciardi - they go to Power and bad Manetti Bros. Just among the musical performers - who had already received among others by the journalists 'Pasinetti' in Venice - the Award Nino Manfredi going to Claudia Gerini, also the protagonist of this year At home all fine (exceptionally honored for cast) and the first work (of Michela Andreozzi) Nine and a half moons.
In the twentieth anniversary of his debut Radiofreccia, for his third film, Made in Italy, interpreted by Stefano Accorsi e Kasia Smutniak, wins for the 
best Story Luciano Ligabue, a rocker who in Taormina takes the stage director for the Nastri d’Argento – Hamilton Behind the camera award, prestigious award imported from Hollywood who has already awarded Alessandro Gassman, conk, Luca Zingaretti, Gabriele Muccino and once again celebrating a great return behind the camera.
Among the awards decided by the two directors 'Tapes Lifetime' 2018: after Gigi Proietti awarded in Rome Alessandro Gassmann (who has directed this year it The prize), film journalists celebrate in Taormina, for his first forty years of career, Massimo Ghini. And after handing in Rome Special Tapes Paolo Taviani (A private matter) signed last film with his brother Vittorio, and the cat Cinderella (for the innovation and the manufacturing courage), the reward tapes in Taormina woman's name that thanks to the subject of Christian Mainardi, the production of Lionello Cerriand especially to directing Marco Tullio Giordana and interpretation of the actress protagonist, Christian Capotondi, It raised the issue of harassment at work not only with the cut of social protest, but with an invitation to break the silence of a silent now out of time yet still often 'accomplice'.
Among the actors, a Edoardo Leo for a special performance, this year, not only as the lead in I stop when I want - an honorary but also as an author and performer of I there, will he Persol - Personality of the Year which he has already awarded over the years Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Claudio Santamaria, Elio Germano, Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi, Claudio Amendola and Luke Argentero
Technical Awards of this edition, finally, for photography (Gianfilippo Corticelli) a veiled Napoli of Ferzan Ozpetek, for costumes (with Nicoletta Taranta) a Agdaah e A ciambra, for the sound in live (Maricetta Lombardo) on an equal footing from the Dogman e The intrusa. And the Dogman He also won the prize for Best Art Direction (Dimitri Caputo).
In the last Taormina some of a prize list that in a special year for Italian cinema has also reported the talent and the value of players like Vintage Gabriele Salvatores(Ribbon 'Argentovivo' film&boys) author of The invisible guy - Second generation, but also Paolo Virzì(She&John – The leisure seeker) e Vittorio Storaro for the 'film' of Woody Allen The wheel Wonderland.