Milena Canonero
Milena Canonero, Dame Grand Cross 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 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.Her first major film work as a costume designer was in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange after having met Kubrick on the set of . She worked with Kubrick again on Barry Lyndon, for which she won her first Oscar with Ulla-Britt Söderlund, and The Shining. Her second Oscar win was for Chariots of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson.
Canonero has also designed the costumes for several stagings directed by Otto Schenk, such as Il trittico, As You Like It, Die Fledermaus, Andrea Chénier, and Arabella. For director Luc Bondy she created the costumes for new productions of Puccini's Tosca, and of Euripides' Helena.
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. 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. She won her third Oscar for Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.
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. 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.
Film credits
Awards and Nominations
Academy Awards| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1975 | Best Costume Design | Barry Lyndon | ||
| 1981 | Best Costume Design | Chariots of Fire | ||
| 1985 | Best Costume Design | Out of Africa | ||
| 1988 | Best Costume Design | ' | ||
| 1990 | Best Costume Design | Dick Tracy | ||
| 1999 | Best Costume Design | Titus | ||
| 2001 | Best Costume Design | The Affair of the Necklace | ||
| 2006 | Best Costume Design | Marie Antoinette | ||
| 2014 | Best Costume Design | The Grand Budapest Hotel | ||
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BAFTA Awards'
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
| 1979 | Best Costume Design | Barry Lyndon | ||
| 1982 | Best Costume Design | Chariots of Fire | ||
| 1986 | Best Costume Design | The Cotton Club | ||
| 1987 | Best Costume Design | Out of Africa | ||
| 1991 | Best Costume Design | Dick Tracy | ||
| 2007 | Best Costume Design | Marie Antoinette | ||
| 2015 | Best Costume Design | The Grand Budapest Hotel'' | ||
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