Milena Canonero
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Milena Canonero | |
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Born | Turin, Italy | 13 July 1949
Occupation | Costume designer |
Years active | 1971–present |
Spouse |
Milena Canonero, Dame Grand Cross[1] (born 13 July 1949) is an Italian costume designer. She worked extensively in stage and screen productions throughout her career, which spanned over five decades. Canonero has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and two Costume Designers Guild Awards, as well as the Honorary Golden Bear in 2017.
Canonero gained prominence for her collaborations with directors Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wes Anderson. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design nine times, winning four awards for Barry Lyndon (1975), Chariots of Fire (1981), Marie Antoinette (2006), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). She has also received eight nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, winning for Chariots of Fire, The Cotton Club (1984), and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Early life[edit]
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]
Career[edit]
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 (Vienna State Opera 1979), As You Like It (Salzburg Festival 1980), Die Fledermaus (Vienna State Opera 1980), Andrea Chénier (Vienna State Opera 1981), and Arabella (Metropolitan Opera 1983). For director Luc Bondy she created the costumes for new productions of Tosca (Metropolitan Opera, 2009), and of 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).
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]
Personal life[edit]
Canonero is married to actor Marshall Bell, and they live in West Hollywood, California.
Selected film credits[edit]
Awards and nominations[edit]
Major associations
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Academy Awards | ||||
1976 | Best Costume Design | Barry Lyndon | Won | [8] |
1982 | Chariots of Fire | Won | [9] | |
1986 | Out of Africa | Nominated | [10] | |
1989 | Tucker: The Man and His Dream | Nominated | [11] | |
1991 | Dick Tracy | Nominated | [12] | |
2000 | Titus | Nominated | [13] | |
2002 | The Affair of the Necklace | Nominated | [14] | |
2007 | Marie Antoinette | Won | [15] | |
2015 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | [16] | |
BAFTA Film Awards | ||||
1976 | Best Costume Design | Barry Lyndon | Nominated | [17] |
1982 | Chariots of Fire | Won | [18] | |
1986 | The Cotton Club | Won | [19] | |
1987 | Out of Africa | Nominated | [20] | |
1991 | Dick Tracy | Nominated | [21] | |
2007 | Marie Antoinette | Nominated | [22] | |
2015 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Won | [23] | |
2022 | The French Dispatch | Nominated | [24] |
Other awards and nominations
Honorary accolades[edit]
Organization | Year | Category | Result |
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Berlin International Film Festival | 2017 | Honorary Golden Bear | Won |
Costume Designers Guild | 2001 | Career Achievement in Film | Won |
References[edit]
- ^ "Canonero Sig.ra Milena". www.quirinale.it. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
- ^ "Milena Canonero". Costume Designers Guild Website. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mary, Rourke (May 23, 1986). "One of the Hottest Properties in TV Is the Costume Designer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
- ^ "Awards honor costume design". Los Angeles Times. February 22, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
- ^ "87th Academy Awards". Retrieved January 15, 2015.
- ^ "Berlinale: Prizes & Honours 2017". Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "48th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "54th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "58th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "61st Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "63rd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "72nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "74th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "79th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "87th Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "29th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "35th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "39th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "40th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "44th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "60th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "68th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ "75th British Academy Film Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Retrieved August 15, 2023.
Further reading[edit]
- Fabienne Liptay (ed.), Milena Canonero. Film-Konzepte 40 (edition text + kritik, 2015).