Italian Cinema Academy president and artistic director Piera Detassis announced the award on Tuesday.
Vanzina, 74, brother of the late director Carlo and son of the great Commedia all'italians director, Steno, "is a screenwriter, producer, director and writer of successful novels, a liberal cinephile, cultivated and lightning fast in lampooning the vices and manias of Italian life," Detassis said.
"Enrico Vanzina, with his father Steno, wrote the cult film Febbre da cavallo (Horse Fever, 1976), with his brother Carlo, director and accomplice of a whole professional life, and sealed exactly 40 years ago the explosive success of two seminal films, Vacanze di Natale and Sapore di Mare (Time For Loving)", she added.
"The author of more than 100 screenplays, in tandem with Carlo he contributed to films (Yuppies, Le finte bionde, Eccezzziunale…veramente) that indelibly fix the sense of an era without fearing pop.
“The award to Enrico Vanzina is a celebration of the multi-faceted author as well as an affectionate tribute to an artistic family of great weavers of Italian comedy, inventors of genres that have become part of our DNA as an audience.”
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