Cult coomedy screenwriter, producer and director Enrico Vanzina is to get a special David di Donatello award for his career achievement at the 68th edition of the Italian Oscars on May 10, Italian Cinema Academy President and Artistic Director Piera Detassis announced Tuesday.

Vanzina, 74, brother of the late director Carlo and son of the great Commedia all'italians director Steno, "is a screenwriter, producer, director and writer of successful novels, a liberal cinephile, cultivated and lightning fast in lampooning the vices and manias of Italian life," said Detassis.