Italy came away empty- handed from this year's Oscars awards despite three nominations.
Director Cristina Comencini was in the running for the best foreign film prize with her family drama Dont' Tell (La Bestia nel Cuore), but lost out to the South African Film Tsotsi.
Costume designer Gabriella Pescucci failed to pick up her second Oscar, for her work on Charlie and the Chocolate Fatory, with the prize going to Colleen Atwood for Memoirs of a Geisha.
This was Pescucci's third nomination after the one for The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Oscar, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, her first nomination. Composer Dario Marianelli received his first Oscar nomination for his score for Pride and Prejudice, but he lost to Gustavo Santaolalla, who wrote the music for Brokeback Mountain.
