Sophia Loren has won a total of 28 awards and received 9 nominations. Among the awards are two Oscars. Her role as Cesira – initially offered to Anna Magnani – in La Ciociara (1960), a film produced by Ponti and directed by Vittorio De Sica, won her the statuette for Best Actress in 1962. It was the first non-English-language performance to win it. Loren, however, did not attend the ceremony for fear of fainting from emotion, she said. In 1991, she won an honorary Oscar, which together with the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1998 and the David di Donatello in 1999 makes the triptych of her lifetime achievement awards.
