Amici di Maria De Filippi

Television broadcast
Original title	Amici di Maria De Filippi
Country of production	Italy
Year (s)	since 2001
Production company	Fascino PGT ( Mediaset )
length	210 minutes
Broadcasting cycle	yearly
genre	Casting show
idea	Maria De Filippi
Moderation	Maria De Filippi
First broadcast	September 22nd, 2001 on Italia 1

Amici di Maria De Filippi (mostly Amici for short , initially Saranno Famosi ) is an Italian casting show that is currently broadcast on Canale 5 and moderated by Maria De Filippi . To date, 19 seasons have been produced, making it the longest-running casting show on Italian television.

Charisma and concept

Maria De Filippi, 2009

The casting show started in 2001 under the name Saranno Famosi and was renamed at the beginning of 2003, as there was a risk of confusion with the television series Fame - The Path to Fame in Italy . The first season was broadcast by Italia 1 , the second already partly on Canale 5 , until the show finally switched to Canale 5 from the third season.

Amici is designed as a school: For about a school year , the 20 or so casted “students” are trained by some prominent “teachers” in the respective category and accompanied by cameramen. The categories changed over the years: initially singers , dancers ( jazz , hip-hop , classical), actors , musicians and TV presenters were allowed; In the second season musicians and TV presenters were dropped; in the sixth gymnasts were briefly added; from the ninth season onwards, actors dropped out, while opera singing was added for a short time; From the twelfth season rap was allowed, from the 13th on, bands and breakdance groups as well as Latin American dance were added.

The broadcast television program is divided into two phases: in the first, the training of the participants is shown, each of which is assessed by their teachers and finally (since the ninth season) by a jury; In the second phase, the participants appear in public and are rated by the television viewers using televoting . In the finals, in addition to the determination of a winner through the televoting, a critics prize is also awarded by the journalists (since the third season); it's about cash prizes (including a scholarship ) and a contract with Mediaset .

Issues and winners

Season	year	Winner		Runner-up		Third place		Critic award
		Surname	category	Surname	category	Surname	category	Surname	category
1	2002	Dennis Fantina	singing	Marianna Scarci	dance	Ermanno Rossi	dance	-
2	2003	Giulia Ottonello	singing	Anbeta Toromani	dance	Timothy Snell	singing	-
3	2004	Leon Cino	dance	Sabrina Ghio	dance	Samantha Fantauzzi	play	Gian De Martini	singing
4th	2005	Antonino Spadaccino	singing	Francesco De Simone	dance	Klajdi Selimi	dance	Antonino Spadaccino	singing
5	2006	Ivan D'Andrea	dance	Andrea Dianetti	play	Rita Comisi	singing	Rita Comisi	singing
6th	2007	Federico Angelucci	singing	Agata Reale	dance	Karima Ammar	singing	Karima Ammar	singing
7th	2008	Marco Carta	singing	Roberta Bonanno	singing	Pasqualino Maione	singing	Francesco Mariottini	dance
8th	2009	Alessandra Amoroso	singing	Valerio Scanu	singing	Luca Napolitano	singing	Alessandra Amoroso	singing
9	2010	Emma Marrone	singing	Loredana Errore	singing	Pierdavide Carone	singing	Pierdavide Carone	singing
10	2011	Denny Lodi	dance	Giulia Pauselli	dance	Vito Conversano	dance	Annalisa Scarrone	singing
		Virginio Simonelli	singing	Annalisa Scarrone	singing	Francesca Nicolì	singing
11	2012	Giuseppe Giofrè	dance	Francesca Dugarte	dance	Nunzio Perricone	dance	Carlo Alberto Di Micco	singing
		Gerardo sweater	singing	Ottavio De Stefano	singing	Carlo Alberto Di Micco	singing
		Alessandra Amoroso	Big	Emma	Big	Marco Carta	Big	Annalisa	Big
12	2013	Moreno Donadoni	singing	Greta Manuzi	singing	Nicolò Noto	dance	Moreno Donadoni	singing
13	2014	Deborah Iurato	singing	Dear Jack	singing	Vincenzo Durevole	dance	Dear Jack	singing
14th	2015	The Kolors	singing	Briga	singing	Virginia Tomarchio	dance	The Kolors	singing
15th	2016	Sergio Sylvestre	singing	Elodie Di Patrizi	singing	Gabriele Esposito	dance	Elodie Di Patrizi	singing
16	2017	Andreas Mueller	dance	Riccardo Marcuzzo	singing	Federica Carta	singing	Sebastian Melo Taveira	dance
17th	2018	Irama	singing	Carmen Ferreri	singing	Einar Ortiz	singing	Lauren Celentano	dance
18th	2019	Alberto Urso	singing	Giordana Angi	singing	Rafael Quenedit Castro	dance	Giordana Angi	singing
19th	2020

Web links

• Official website at Mediaset (Italian)
• Website at WittyTV (Italian)