Iconic Italian actor Franco Nero, who gained worldwide fame in Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 traditional Spaghetti Western “Django,” would be the high honoree of the upcoming eleventh version of Filming Italy — Los Angeles, the occasion bridging Italy and Hollywood set to run Feb. 10 to 14, 2026.
As beforehand introduced, Nero — who after “Django” appeared in over 200 films and TV exhibits, working with administrators equivalent to John Huston, Luis Buñuel, Claude Chabrol, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Quentin Tarantino — will even be celebrated on Feb. 12 by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame within the Movement Footage class.
“This can be a significantly necessary milestone for Filming Italy, which has now secured its third star devoted to an Italian artist, following the awarding of stars to Gina Lollobrigida in 2018, on the event of her ninetieth birthday, and Giancarlo Giannini in 2023,” stated Italian advertising and marketing guru and festivals specialist Tiziana Rocca in a press release. Rocca famous her “nice satisfaction” for being the promoter of this third Italian Hollywood Stroll of Fame star.
Nero, who riffed on his position within the unique “Django” in a cameo he had in Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” has additionally acted in “Camelot,” “Die Arduous 2,” “Letters to Juliet” and “John Wick: Chapter 2,” amongst different Hollywood movies. His most up-to-date appearances embrace a job as mob boss Don Lecco in Julian Schnabel’s “Hand of Dante.” Nero is married to actress Vanessa Redgrave, with whom he has a son, Carlo Gabriel Nero.
Nero will honored with a retrospective by the Filming Italy fest that may function a program together with Italian cinema world premieres, restored classics, tv collection, brief movies and documentary movies, a lot of which beforehand unseen.
