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It has been 11 years since Sophia Loren, the great Italian star and one of the only surviving icons of Hollywood's Golden Age, last graced the screen. And longer still since she last took a leading role. After her Oscar-winning heyday in the '50s and '60s, Loren turned to the only passion that could match her love for…

EXCLUSIVE: Sophia Loren, the Oscar winner who has returned to the screen starring in this year’s Netflix move The Life Ahead directed by her son Edoardo Ponti, will receive this year’s KCET Cinema Series Lumière Award. The honor, which recognizes excellence, artistry and innovation and outstanding contribution to…

UPDATED with video: Director and co-writer Edoardo Ponti brought along his mother for my conversation about his movie, Netflix's The Life Ahead, as part of Deadline's Contenders International awards-season event. That mother happens to be a true screen legend, Sophia Loren, who has been directed by her son (their…

Aaron Sorkin’s acclaimed and increasingly relevant political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, which revolves around the raucous trial of a group of protesters accused of disrupting the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, took a leading four awards including best picture at the just concluded 25th annual Capri…

EXCLUSIVE: Theatres may be closing again at a rapid pace, but the power of being on Netflix during this worldwide pandemic  certainly appears to be good news for those whose awards hopeful films have been debuting on the streaming service at virtually a weekly pace. For cinema legend  Sophia Loren that means the…

When word seeped out this week that Netflix was considering adding Malcolm & Marie to its list of Oscar-contending movies for this year, shudders went through the competition from other distributors. Can one studio/distributor/streamer — whatever — possibly grab all five Best Actress Oscar slots? That would certainly…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. If you were to measure the highly unusual Oscar season we are embarking upon by the equivalent milestones of a “normal” awards season, right now we would find ourselves in the midst of the fall film festivals. That is because COVID-19 has essentially…

It has been 10 long years since Sophia Loren has appeared in a feature film, and that was a relatively small supporting role in Rob Marshall’s musical Nine. It has been much longer since she has had a leading role that could be compared to the numerous Italian-language classics for which she is so widely admired, not…

Here’s the affecting first trailer for Netflix’s Italian-language pic The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti A Sé), which sees screen icon Sophia Loren make her return to acting after more than a decade. Set in seaside Italy, 86 year-old Oscar-winner Loren plays a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business who takes in…

EXCLUSIVE: Add Sophia Loren to the growing list of those whose names we are likely to hear come this Oscar awards season. The legendary star and 1961 Best Actress Academy Award winner for Two Women, as well as the recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 1991 inscribed “for a career rich with memorable performances that has…

Edoardo Ponti's The Life Ahead, the Italian drama that marks the big screen return of Sophia Loren, has had its world rights snapped up by Netlfix, with the streamer planning to release later this year. The pic, co-written by Ugo Chiti (Dogman) and Ponti, sees Loren play a Holocaust survivor who takes in a 12-year-old…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Welcome to a special Monday edition of Notes on the Season. Hey, Academy members, you have just moments left to make your mark on this year’s increasingly heated Oscar race. Ballots for nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards are due today at…