Milena Canonero

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Milena Canonero

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Milena Canonero Berlinale 2017.jpg
Born (1949-07-13) 13 July 1949 (age 72)
Turin, Italy
OccupationCostume designer
Years active1971-present
Spouse(s)Marshall Bell (1980-present)

Milena Canonero, Dame Grand Cross[1] (born 13 July 1949) is an Italian costume designer, who has worked for both film and stage productions. She has won four Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, and been nominated for the award a total of nine times.

She is married to actor Marshall Bell.

Career[]

Born in Turin, Italy, Canonero studied art, design history and costume design in Genoa. She then moved to England, where she began working in small theatre and film productions. While designing for commercials in London, she met many film directors.[2]

Her first major film work as a costume designer was in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), having met Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).[3] She worked with Kubrick again on Barry Lyndon (1975), for which she won her first Oscar with Ulla-Britt Söderlund, and The Shining (1980). Her second Oscar win was for Chariots of Fire (1981), directed by Hugh Hudson.

Canonero has also designed the costumes for several stagings directed by Otto Schenk, such as Il trittico (Puccini, Vienna State Opera 1979), As You Like It (Shakespeare, Salzburg Festival 1980), Die Fledermaus (Strauss, Vienna State Opera 1980), Andrea Chénier (Giordano, Vienna State Opera 1981), and Arabella (Strauss, Metropolitan Opera 1983). For director Luc Bondy she created the costumes for new productions of Puccini's Tosca (Metropolitan Opera, 2009), and of Euripides' Helena (Burgtheater, Vienna, 2010).

In 1986, Canonero became the costume designer for the television series Miami Vice.[4]

In 2001, Canonero received the Career Achievement Award in Film from the Costume Designers Guild. In 2005, Canonero won the guild's award for excellence in contemporary film for her work on Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004).[5] She won her third Oscar for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).

Details of the costumes worn by Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton in The Grand Budapest Hotel, designed by Canonero.

Canonero reteamed with Anderson in 2014 on The Grand Budapest Hotel, for which she received her ninth nomination and fourth win at the 87th Academy Awards.[6] She also won a BAFTA award for her work on the film.

Milena Canonero was awarded an Honorary Golden Bear during the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.[7]

Film credits[]

Year Title Director
1971 A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick
1975 Barry Lyndon
1977 The Disappearance Stuart Cooper
1978 Midnight Express Alan Parker
1980 The Shining Stanley Kubrick
1981 Chariots of Fire Hugh Hudson
1983 The Hunger Tony Scott
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street Peter Webb
The Cotton Club Francis Ford Coppola
1985 Out of Africa Sydney Pollack
1987 Barfly Barbet Schroeder
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream Francis Ford Coppola
1990 The Bachelor Roberto Faenza
Dick Tracy Warren Beatty
The Godfather Part III Francis Ford Coppola
1992 Single White Female Barbet Schroeder
Damage Louis Malle
1994 Only You Norman Jewison
Love Affair Glenn Gordon Caron
Camilla Deepa Mehta
Death and the Maiden Roman Polanski
1998 Bulworth Warren Beatty
1999 Titus Julie Taymor
2001 The Affair of the Necklace Charles Shyer
2002 Solaris Steven Soderbergh
2004 Eros Wong Kar-wai
Steven Soderbergh
Michelangelo Antonioni
Ocean's Twelve Steven Soderbergh
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Wes Anderson
2006 Marie Antoinette Sofia Coppola
Belle Toujours Manoel de Oliveira
2007 The Darjeeling Limited Wes Anderson
I Viceré Roberto Faenza
2010 The Wolfman Joe Johnston
2011 Carnage Roman Polanski
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
Last Summer Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli
2016 Paris Can Wait Eleanor Coppola
2018 The Sisters Brothers Jacques Audiard
2021 The French Dispatch Wes Anderson

Awards and Nominations[]

Academy Awards

Year Award Category Result Ref.
1975 Best Costume Design Barry Lyndon Won [8]
1981 Chariots of Fire Won
1985 Out of Africa Nominated
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream Nominated
1990 Dick Tracy Nominated
1999 Titus Nominated
2001 The Affair of the Necklace Nominated
2006 Marie Antoinette Won
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel Won

BAFTA Awards

Year Award Category Result Ref.
1979 Best Costume Design Barry Lyndon Nominated [9]
1982 Chariots of Fire Won
1986 The Cotton Club Won
1987 Out of Africa Nominated
1991 Dick Tracy Nominated
2006 Marie Antoinette Won
2015 The Grand Budapest Hotel Won

References[]

  1. ^ "Canonero Sig.ra Milena". www.quirinale.it. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  2. ^ "Milena Canonero". Costume Designers Guild Website. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
  3. ^ Anderson, Ariston (February 23, 2015). "Oscars 2015: Italy Celebrates Fourth Costume Design Win for Milena Canonero". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  4. ^ Mary, Rourke (May 23, 1986). "One of the Hottest Properties in TV Is the Costume Designer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  5. ^ "Awards honor costume design". Los Angeles Times. February 22, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  6. ^ "87th Academy Awards". Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  7. ^ "Berlinale: Prizes & Honours 2017". Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  8. ^ "Internet Movie Data Base". IMDB. 2020-03-06. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Internet Movie Data Base". IMDB. 2020-03-06. Retrieved 6 March 2020.

Further reading[]

  • Fabienne Liptay (ed.), Milena Canonero. Film-Konzepte 40 (edition text + kritik, 2015).

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