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 have read my Alt Film…
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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 week. Paolo Virzi’s La prima…
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Veteran Stefania Sandrelli, who has a supporting role in A Perfect Day. According to Agence France-Presse, at least in first few days the 2008 Venice Film Festival, which ran Aug. 27–Sept. 6, “has produced no standouts … with reactions to the first crop among the…