Sabrina Ferilli will receive the David Speciale 2022 during the 67th edition of David di Donatello Prize.
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, Edoardo De Angelis and Domenico Dinoia , Valeria Golino, Giancarlo Leone, Luigi Lonigro, Mario Lorini and Francesco Ranieri Martinotti.
The price it will be awarded on May 3rd at the ceremony live in prime time RA 1 from the Cinecittà Studios, conducted by Carlo Conti flanked by Drusilla Foer.
“Sabrina Ferilli, an icon of sunny and sensual beauty, so ironic that she declared: ‘I want to be Totò with breasts’, Sabrina Ferilli was never satisfied with being a very popular sex symbolactress of brilliant talent that moves between cinema, television and in the wake of the theatrical tradition of the Garinei and Giovannini,” said Piera Detassis.
“On the other hand, collaborating with authors such as Marco Ferreri, the Taviani brothers and Paolo Genovese, with rare acumen, managed to dodge too many spotlights, maintaining a profile of civil commitment and a filmography that, despite some amused subterfuges, never refuses, in the cinepanettone, shines with Beautiful titles and intelligent comedies that have become proverbial, from La bella vita, Ferie d’agosto and All life in front by Paolo Virzì to Io e lei by Maria Sole Tognazzi, in which she plays the companion in love, by Margherita Buy. A special David for devotion and beautythe smile without rhetoric and the praise of the imperishable lightness that in a moment can turn into the sad look of Ramona, the stripper of The Great Beauty, her masterpiece as an actress “, he concluded.
50 years Sabrina Ferilli (from the archive)