Stefania Sandrelli

Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & long-running Honorary Oscar “snub.” Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & Danielle Darrieux among Honorary Oscar non-recipients (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Greta Garbo & Angela Lansbury Among Rare Exceptions.”) Those who…

Veteran Stefania Sandrelli (Divorce Italian Style, The Conformist) and Valerio Mastandrea in Paolo Virzi’s The First Beautiful Thing (top); Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria (bottom). Here’s a belated report on the 2010 David di Donatello awards. The nominations for Italy’s Oscars were announced last…

Photos: © Fondazione La Biennale - Foto Asac Hayao Miyazaki, whose Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is up for a Golden Lion Actor Valerio Mastandrea, director Ferzan Ozpetek, of A Perfect Day, which is up for a Golden…