LOS ANGELES - John Travolta called the "most delightful" thing out of the Italy, Roberto Benigni valser him with the Neapolitan song "O Sole mio" and Billy Crystal said that she was his "first love".
Hollywood came out Wednesday in honour of Sophia Loren, 50 years after that she became the first person to win an acting Oscar for a role of foreign language with the Italian film "two women".
Loren, now 76 and with its famous hour-glass figure intact, was not present at the ceremony of award of the Academy of 1961. She told an audience of some 800 players, managers, friends and family on Wednesday, she never dreams that an Italian in an Italian language film would win the highest distinction of the film industry.
"The Oscar changed my life completely," she said at the tribute organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "It helped me believe in me and encouraged me to make my own artistic borders."
"There is no words to describe my emotions right now." "It is difficult to imagine that 50 years have elapsed since I welcomed my Oscar my home", she added.
Considered the most famous actress of Italian life with more than 80 films, Loren received a lifetime achievement Oscar in 1991 and was declared "one of the greatest treasures of world cinema."
On Wednesday, it was still thanked with tributes and clips roles the most famous of its golden age in the 1950s to the 1970s, including "Marriage Italian Style," "A special day", "Yesterday, today and tomorrow" and the films of Hollywood "el cid" and "the man of La Mancha".
With most of his colleagues and directors died long - Marcello Mastroianni, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando and her producer husband Carlo Ponti - speeches have been left to the younger generation.
Rob Marshall, who led Loren in his most recent feature in 2009 "new", said working with her was "the most magical I never."
Tom Hanks calls its "timeless, beautiful and authentically real." Christian De Sica describes frequent pairing of Loren with her father, Italian Director Vittorio of Sica, as "like a cappuccino - could say milk from coffee".
Exuberant actor and Italian Director Benigni, himself a winner of the Oscar for the 1997 film, "life is beautiful," sing to Loren in a video message and her son Edoardo Ponti counter tears he said: "We are here because we love you and that you deserve every single thing."
Asked by the moderator and comedian U.S. Crystal if she was happy with his career, Loren wipe tears from his eyes.
She replied: "You are never happy". "You want to always to do more and to find the right thing at the right time." I love my career, my life, so. I was born for this. I am sick when I was not working for a year or two.
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