Star on the Walk of Fame for Carlo Rambaldi and Franco Nero

Carlo Rambaldi and Franco Nero will have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The creator of ET and Alien, winner of three Oscars for visual effects specials, and the actor who became famous for the spaghetti western of 1966, Django, are part of the "class of 2026": the 35 protagonists of entertainment and sport to whom the Chamber of Hollywood Commerce has decided to dedicate a tile on the most famous sidewalk in Los Angeles next year. 2025 marks the centenary of the birth of the genius Italian craftsman who built the most revolutionary monsters of the history of cinema, from King Kong in 1976 to Alien in 1979 to to the tender alien abandoned on earth told by Steven Spielberg in 1982. It's the centennial committee itself - which includes the journalist and producer Silvia Bizio, the knight of the Republic Anna Manunza and the producer Raffaella De Laurentiis, all residents of Los Angeles - to have pleaded the cause of the artist who died in 2012 and promised "a series of events aimed at celebrating him in the city that gave him birth made famous". The application was submitted by Cinecittà and the Ministry of Culture. "We are very happy with this honor bestowed on a great Italian and a great Emilian, who taught the world how to create special effects - he made known with a notes the undersecretary Lucia Borgonzoni - in our hearts it will be forever the creator of ET". Actor Franco Nero has been honored in past editions of the Filming Italy festival organized in Los Angeles by Tiziana Rocca. Borgonzoni's compliments to him too: "pride Italian".