The first time that Sophia Loren took the stage to pick up a David by Donatello it was in 1959 for The ciociara by Vittorio De Sica, a film that also earned her the Oscar. He was 27 years old and, since then, among the many prizes that crowd his shelf, David’s would have won six more, including one for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Life ahead of him, the film directed by his son Edoardo Ponti and distributed by Netflix which was literally snubbed by the Hollywood Award Season except for the song I do (Seen), written by Laura Pausini, Niccolò Agliardi and Diane Warren.
At 87, wearing a blue dress studded with diamonds and escorted by her son Edoardo, Loren can’t hold back her emotion: “Help me,” she says approaching the microphone, putting on her glasses and holding the sheet of her speech in her hand.
“It’s hard to believe that the first time I picked up a David was over 60 years ago. But, tonight, it feels like the first time again. The emotion and the joy are the same »explains Sophia Loren while on the Fabrizio Frizzi Studios a mix of silence and reverence falls, with the greatest professionals of Italian cinema standing by to listen to her, letting themselves be carried away by her words and emotion. In addition to thanking Palomar, who produced the film, Netflix, and the little one Ibrahima Gueye, interpreter of Momò, the most heartfelt dedication goes to his son Edoardo Ponti, “to whom I am really very grateful”. “He is a wonderful man who made a very good film. Maybe it will be my last, I don’t know. But after so many and so many films, I want to make one more and more beautiful: I can’t live without cinema ».
Finally, a touch of irony at the moment of the dangerous descent of the stairs to return to his place in the audience: «I can’t take the David in my hand now, because otherwise I will fall and the prize will fall». Thanks to the movies The Ciociara (1961), Yesterday Today Tomorrow (1964), Italian wedding (1965), I girasoli (1970), Travel (1974) e A particular day (1978), five by Vittorio De Sica and one by Ettore Scola, Sophia Loren is the Italian actress to have won more David than Donatello in the history of the award. She is followed by Monica Vitti and Margherita Buy with 5 David, and by Mariangela Melato and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi with 4.
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