Italian-American actress Isabella Rossellini is to receive the Special David di Donatello 2023 award, President and Artistic Director of the Academy of Italian Cinema - Premi David di Donatello awards Piera Detassis said on Wednesday. The award ceremony will be on May 10 and will be broadcast live on public service broadcaster Rai Uno.

Rossellini, 70, "has managed to challenge every commonplace with great freedom, confirming herself to be a multifaceted and nonconformist artist, a model of great fame, a great performer and an ironic author of provocative films and theatrical monologues, and finally an ethologist and environmental activist," said Detassis. ''