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Milena Canonero Born Turin, Italy Occupation Costume designer Spouse Marshall Bell Milena Canonero (Turin, Italy,) is an Italian costume designer, working both for films and stage productions. She has won three Academy Awards for Best Costume design, and been nominated for it eight times.
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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.[1]
Her first major film work as a costume designer was in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). She worked with Kubrick again in Barry Lyndon (1975), for which she won her first Oscar, together with Ulla-Britt Söderlund. Her second win was for Chariots of Fire (1981), directed by Hugh Hudson.
She is married to actor Marshall Bell.
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.
In 2001, Canonero received the Career Achievement Award in Film from the Costume Designers Guild. She won her third Oscar for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).
Awards
Year Award Category Production 1976 Academy Award Best Costume Design Barry Lyndon (1975) 1982 Academy Award Best Costume Design Chariots of Fire (1981) 2007 Academy Award Best Costume Design Marie Antoinette (2006) 1982 BAFTA Award Best Costume Design Chariots of Fire (1981) 1986 BAFTA Award Best Costume Design The Cotton Club (1984) References
- ^ "Milena Canonero". Costume Designers Guild Website. http://www.costumedesignersguild.com/cdg-awards-recipient.asp?AwardID=10&awardtype=4. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
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Academy Award for Costume Design (1961–1980) 1961–1966
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/ Color separate1961 (bw): Piero Gherardi / (c): Irene Sharaff • 1962 (bw): Norma Koch / (c): Mary Wills • 1963 (bw): Piero Gherardi / (c): Renié, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Irene Sharaff • 1964 (bw): Dorothy Jeakins / (c): Cecil Beaton • 1965 (bw): Julie Harris / (c): Phyllis Dalton • 1966 (bw): Irene Sharaff / (c): Elizabeth Haffenden
1967–1980 1967: John Truscott • 1968: Danilo Donati • 1969: Margaret Furse • 1970: Vittorio Nino Novarese • 1971: Yvonne Blake and Antonio Castillo • 1972: Anthony Powell • 1973: Edith Head • 1974: Theoni V. Aldredge • 1975: Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Soderlund • 1976: Danilo Donati • 1977: John Mollo • 1978: Anthony Powell • 1979: Albert Wolsky • 1980: Anthony Powell
Complete list · (1948–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Academy Award for Costume Design (1981–2000) 1981: Milena Canonero • 1982: Bhanu Athaiya, Madeline Jones and John Mollo • 1983: Marik Vos-Lundh • 1984: Theodor Pistek • 1985: Emi Wada • 1986: Jenny Beavan and John Bright • 1987: James Acheson • 1988: James Acheson • 1989: Phyllis Dalton • 1990: Franca Squarciapino • 1991: Albert Wolsky • 1992: Eiko Ishioka • 1993: Gabriella Pescucci • 1994: Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner • 1995: James Acheson • 1996: Ann Roth • 1997: Deborah Lynn Scott • 1998: Sandy Powell • 1999: Lindy Hemming • 2000: Janty Yates
Complete list · (1948–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Academy Award for Costume Design (2001–2020) 2001: Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie • 2002: Colleen Atwood • 2003: Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor • 2004: Sandy Powell • 2005: Colleen Atwood • 2006: Milena Canonero • 2007: Alexandra Byrne • 2008: Michael O'Connor • 2009: Sandy Powell • 2010: Colleen Atwood
Complete list · (1948–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) 
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