Milena Vukotic will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 69th edition of the David di Donatello Awards. The award will be awarded on Friday 3 May as part of the live awards ceremony, in prime time on Rai 1, from the Cinecittà studios and broadcast for the first time in 4K (on the Rai4K channel, number 210 of Tivùsat), with the hosting by Carlo Conti and Alessia Marcuzzi.
Fabrizio Biggio will be on the red carpet. Milena Vukotic, Roman, born in 1935, has crossed, with grace and irony, sixty years of history of cinema, theater and television in Italy. An actress of great elegance, she was the protagonist of interpretations rich in poetry and intelligence that fascinated many great authors: from Federico Fellini (Juliet of the Spirits) to Mario Monicelli (the first two episodes of the "My Friends" trilogy), from Luis Buñuel ( The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, The ghost of freedom, That dark object of desire) to Ettore Scola (The archdevil, The terrace), from Carlo Lizzani (The house of the yellow carpet, Cattiva) to Dino Risi (The Thursday, The seducers of Sunday), from Alberto Lattuada (Come and have coffee... with us) to Carlo Verdone (White, red and Verdone) up to Ferzan Özpetek (Saturn against, A perfect day). Alongside Paolo Villaggio, in the iconic role of Pina, she was the protagonist of seven of the ten film chapters dedicated to the accountant Ugo Fantozzi.
Over the years, Milena Vukotic has obtained three nominations for the David as Best Supporting Actress: in 1983 for the film Amici mie - Atto II by Mario Monicelli, in 1991 for Fantozzi alla to the rescue by Neri Parenti, in 2014 for The Chair of Happiness by Carlo Mazzacurati. Alongside her cinematographic career, which includes around one hundred films, starting from the mid-1960s, Milena Vukotic has worked as a theater interpreter, directed by directors such as Giorgio Strehler and Franco Zeffirelli, and on television, from the famous drama "The Journal of Gian Gale" by Lina Wertmüller.
In recent decades she has become famous for the role of Enrica in the television series Un medico in famiglia, where she will become the wife of her father-in-law Libero Martini (played by Lino Banfi).