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'''America Award''' is an international award established by the [[Italy-USA Foundation]].


* [[America Award in Literature]]
* [[Italy–USA_Foundation#America_Award|Italy-USA Foundation's America Award]]


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==Organization==
The [[Italy–USA Foundation]] promote yearly in Italy the America Award, a recognition under the auspices of the President of the Italian Republic. The award is mainly seen as a means to acknowledge and encourage initiatives and work aimed at favouring relationships between [[Italy]] and the [[United States of America]]. Prominent personalities of any nationality who stand out for their work and results in promoting transatlantic friendship are considered. The [[Italy–USA Foundation]] was established to promote the friendship between [[Italy|Italians]] and [[United States|Americans]] plus American culture in Italy, and is a non-profit organization.

==Ceremony==
The ceremony is hold in [[Rome]], [[Italy]], at [[Chamber of Deputies]], the Italian Parliament. The [[Italy-USA Foundation]], in the frame of the America Award, also confer three sterling silver medals of the President of the Chamber of Deputies to three students of American universities. The prize is an exclusive work of art in sterling silver by the goldsmith Gerardo Sacco, representing a [[Caravel]] with both the American and Italian flags.

==Laureates==
Among the winners [[Andrea Bocelli]], [[Walter Veltroni]], Umberto Paolucci, Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, [[Umberto Veronesi]], Antonio Campo Dall'Orto, [[Ennio Morricone]], [[Franco Frattini]], Rinaldo Petrignani, [[Maria Grazia Cucinotta]], Igor Man, [[Piero Fassino]], [[Renzo Arbore]], Justine Mattera, [[Renato Balestra]], [[Ferragamo|Massimo Ferragamo]], Antonio Di Bella, Emilio Carelli, [[Alain Elkann]], [[Oriana Fallaci]], [[Laura Biagiotti]], [[Mike Bongiorno]], Maria Laura Baccarini, [[Franca Sozzani]], [[Jeremy Rifkin]], [[Peter F. Secchia]], Carlo Rossella, [[Edward Luttwak]], [[Alison Smale]], [[Jo Champa]], [[Lapo Elkann]].

== External links ==
*[http://www.italiausa.org/index.php?c=premio_america The Italy-USA Foundation - America Award]

[[Category:Annual events]]
[[Category:Awards for contributions to society and culture]]

Latest revision as of 16:21, 27 December 2019

America Award may refer to: