Oscar award to one of the most important directors in the history of world cinema. Los Angeles for a week celebrates the inspiration and talent of Lina Wertmüller, great Italian director. On Sunday 27 October, the artist received theLifetime Achievement Oscar assigned to it byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Before the big ceremony, Lina Wertmüller was the protagonist of a whole series of events organized in her honor: from parties to screenings in which his most famous films have been re-proposed.
The great Italian director awarded with the Oscar
The well-known director, born on 14 August 1928, is the daughter of Federico Wertmüller, a lawyer born in Palazzo San Gervasio (in the province of Potenza) with distant Swiss aristocratic origins. Wertmüller dedicated the coveted statuette to her husband Enrico Job, a lifelong companion, and to the daughter Maria.
The director was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for the film "Pasqualino Seven beauties”In 1977. Instead, 5 years earlier she had been the first woman in competition at the Cannes Festival, with "Metallurgical mimì". With her on 27 October at Academy Annual Governors Awards there will be three other career honors: David Lynch, Wes Studi and Geena Davis.
An Oscar and a star on the Walk of fame for Lina Wertmüller
The women of Hollywood greet Lina Wertmüller. An exclusive welcome reception organized by Amy Baer, president of Wif-Women in film at the “Beverly Hills four seasons". The event is organized by the "Capri Institute in the world" in collaboration with Mibact, Siae and Basilicata region.
Furthermore, the initiative boasts the support of the Italian consulate and the "Italian Cultural Institute"In Los Angeles. Wertmüller was the first woman to receive a nomination for theAcademy Award as best director. In the history of cinema only four other women have been nominated for best director: Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig. And among these only Bigelow won the Oscar.
The Italian director received the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement on Sunday and star No. 2679 on the “Walk of fame” for the “Motion Pictures” category.
Wertmüller, the queen of the camera
The award assigned to Wertmüller is l'Honorary Award (Honorary Prize), a career recognition which, as the Academy recalls, is awarded "to honor the extraordinary distinction in the accomplishments of a lifetime". The work of Wertmüller, her breaking films seventies they have always been very popular even abroad.
In fact, over time, there have been many reviews dedicated to her all over the world IT world;. Its history and its filmography are studded with splendid successes. At the age of 91, the awards that come from the 'mecca' of world cinema are truly the crowning glory of a life and an extraordinary career spent behind the camera.
(Facebook photo Lina Wertmüller / Ansa / Wikipedia)