SHORT TAKES : Loren to Get Honorary Oscar

Calling Sophia Loren “one of the genuine treasures of world cinema,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given her an honorary Oscar.

Loren, 56, won a best actress Oscar in 1961 for the Italian production “Two Women,” the first and only performer to gain an Oscar for work in a foreign language film. She finished a remake of the film in 1988.

She will receive her honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony March 25.

Loren has appeared in 59 films, including a starring role in “Marriage Italian Style.” After making 20 movies in Italy, she came to Hollywood in 1958 and made “The Pride and the Passion,” “Boy on a Dolphin” and “Desire Under the Elms.”