To Sandra Milo the David Lifetime Achievement Award, during the May 11 ceremony conducted by Carlo Conti

2021-04-30T23:57:19.764Z

Sandra Milo will receive the David for Lifetime Achievement during the 66th edition of the David di Donatello Awards. This was announced by Piera Detassis, President and Artistic Director of the Academy of Italian Cinema - David di Donatello Awards, in agreement with the Board of Directors composed of Francesco Rutelli, Carlo Fontana, Nicola Borrelli, Francesca Cima, Luigi Lonigro, Mario Lorini, Domenico Dinoia, Edoardo De Angelis, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Giancarlo Leone. The award will be awarded on 11 May as part of the awards ceremony live in prime time on Rai 1 conducted by Carlo Conti. "Who but Sandra Milo, the fluffy and faded blonde, so to speak, loved by Fellini who immortalizes her as an erotic dream in 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits?". For Piera Detassis, President and Artistic Director ofAccademia del Cinema Italiano: "The David to the Career is a tribute to the combative Salvatrice Elena Greco, this is her real name, unveiled at the cinema, not by chance, by the director of women Antonio Pietrangeli. Under her direction, iconic films such as Lo bachelor, Adua and her companions, Ghosts in Rome and that masterpiece, also of interpretation, which is The Visit, of which Milo is sweet, deceived and disillusioned protagonist. The actress, who surprisingly never received a David di Donatello, has acted for many, from Roberto Rossellini to Gabriele Salvatores, from Gabriele Muccino to Pupi Avati, from Jean Renoir and Claude Sautet. Hers is an almost votive presence, a symbol of femininity and how our greatest interpreted it. cinema. Milo is the woman that men's dreams have imagined,but that the actress, with her cunning, was able to corner. The Accademia del Cinema Italiano is honored to deliver the David to the Career. "Sandra Milo During her career, she plays for some of the most important directors in the history of Italian cinema, from Roberto Rossellini to Antonio Pietrangeli and Federico Fellini up to the most recent collaborations with Gabriele Salvatores and Gabriele Muccino. Equipped with great self-irony and a spontaneous comic streak, the actress made her debut on the big screen in 1955 alongside Alberto Sordi and Nino Manfredi in Antonio Pietrangeli's Lo scapolo: the film marks the beginning of a artistic partnership between the director and the interpreter that continues on three other occasions (Adua and her companions, Ghosts in Rome, The visit).Sandra Milo stars in films such as Roberto Rossellini's Il Generale Della Rovere and Luigi Zampa's Frenesia dell'estate and L'ombrellone by Dino Risi. In 1963 the consecration arrives thanks to Federico Fellini's 8½, a film that won two Academy Awards ©: the director from Rimini will also direct the actress in 1965 in Giulietta degli spiriti. After a long television experience, Sandra Milo returns to acting in the cinema in films such as Il cuore elseve by Pupi Avati, Happy Family by Gabriele Salvatores and in the blockbuster film A casa tutti bene by Gabriele Muccino, which won the David of the Spectator in 2019. The award will be awarded on Tuesday 11 May during the award ceremony of the 66th edition of the David di Donatello Awards, live in prime time on RAI 1, hosted by Carlo Conti. L'edition of 2021 takes place under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic, with the contribution of the MiC Ministry of Culture - Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual, in agreement with AGIS and ANICA and with the participation, as Supporting Founding Members, of SIAE and Nuovo IMAIE.