A crowned cipollino: Massimo Boldi received just today an award for his comedy career from the Ministry of Culture. On the occasion of the 20th edition of the Rome Film Festival, in fact, the actor received the “Special Award Art of Italian Comedy,” a tribute to an artistic path that has spanned decades of popular cinema, marking generations of viewers with his comic signature and contributing decisively to the history of Italian comedy.
The award ceremony was held in the presence of Undersecretary for Culture Lucia Borgonzoni, who wished to emphasize the symbolic and cultural significance of the prize: “With his performances and his innate ability to wring smiles,” she said, “he has entertained millions of viewers, marking the history of Italian comedy. A well-deserved recognition to an artist who has given us characters that have entered the collective imagination.”
Also present at the ceremony was Cinecittà president Antonio Saccone, who offered a critical reading of Boldi’s artistic contribution to the comedy genre: “Massimo Boldi has embodied with a peculiar and original mask, vices, quirks, social tics and passions of Italians. This is what the best Italian comedy has always done, and this is what genuinely popular cinema does. This award for comedy cannot be more deserved.”
Massimo Boldi, born in Luino in 1945, has traversed many seasons of Italian cinema, making his debut on the big screen in the 1970s and becoming, starting in the 1980s, one of the most recognizable faces of national comedy. His artistic partnership with Christian De Sica gave rise to a long series of commercially successful films that defined a veritable subgenre within Italian comedy, helping to popularize expressions, idioms and characters that have become part of the everyday language of millions of Italians. The “mask” played by Boldi over the course of his career-characterized by hyperbolic language, grotesque reactions, and a comedy based on the exaggeration of character traits-has been able to intercept not only the tastes of the public, but also the social, economic and cultural changes of Italy over the past fifty years. His characters, often extreme representations of social stereotypes, have had the strength to become recognizable and familiar, contributing to that tradition of “comedy of the average Italian” that has its roots in the history of national theater and cinema.
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