and from 1998, the competition has also awarded multimedia projects created on web digital platforms. Over the years it has been hosted in many of the most famous Italian cities of art. The idea of an international radio award was proposed in 1948 by director general of Rai, Salvino Sernesi, the director of programmes Giulio Razzi and the director of the drama and revue sector, the playwright Sergio Pugliese. On 13 September of the same year in Capri, the delegations of fourteen radio organisations representing Austria, the Vatican State, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Italy, the Principality of Monaco, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Trieste (which was then a free territory). On that same occasion, the regulations were drawn up and the international prize was officially established. Festival Editions List of laureates 1955: Claude Aveline 1956: Tony Schwartz 1959: George Selwyn English 1965: Raymond Raikes 1966: Nigel Butterley 1967: Krzysztof Penderecki 1970: Bent Lorentzen 1978: Roland Joffé 1980: Marian Finucane Eric Salzman Tony Palmer 1981: Tony Palmer 1982: Luciano Berio 1984: Peter Brook 1989 Leslie Megahey 1995: Jean-Louis Agobet (composer) – Special Prize 1999: Stephen Poliakoff 2001: Hannes Råstam 2002: Filip Šovagović 2003: Colin Black 2005: Jonathan Mills 2009: Jovanka Trbojević 2010: Benjamin Dupé 2013: Paolo Pietropaolo 2016: Erik van Empel References Bibliography Amelia Belloni Sonzogni, Cultura e qualità di rete. Storia del Prix Italia 1948 - 2008, UNI Service, 2008, . External links Prix Italia website Prix Italia from IMDb Italian television awards Awards established in 1948 Radio awards 1948 establishments in Italy