Giorgio Moroder, composer and record producer, will receive the David for Lifetime Achievement during the 69th edition of the David di Donatello Awards. The award will be awarded on Friday 3 May as part of the awards ceremony live, in prime time on Rai 1 from the Cinecittà studios.
The event will be broadcast for the first time in 4K, on the Rai4K channel, number 210 on Tivùsat. Fabrizio Biggio will be on the red carpet. Moroder has created some of the most iconic soundtracks in the history of cinema, receiving three Oscars, four Golden Globes, and two Grammy Awards for the music of Alan Parker's Midnight Express and Adrian Lyne's Flashdance. He wrote the anthem for the Olympic Games of Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, and Beijing 2008, and the hit "Un'estateitaliana" for the 1990 World Cup. In 1984, Moroder produced a new version of Metropolis, Fritz Lang's immortal masterpiece.