Loren is also the Italian actress to have won the most David di Donatello for Best Actress in the history of the award: no fewer than seven, out of the eleven total Davids she has won. The last was in 2021, for La vita davanti a sé by her son Edoardo Ponti. “The first time I received a David di Donatello was more than sixty years ago, but tonight still feels like the first,” she said on that occasion. “The emotion is the same. Without cinema I cannot live,” she added. Other awards she has won include five Golden Globe awards, two awards at the Venice Film Festival, one award at the Cannes Film Festival, one award at the Berlin Film Festival, eleven David di Donatello awards, four Nastri d’Argento awards, one Bafta award and one César award.
