Gabriella Pescucci
Costume & Make-Up
Born 1943-01-17
Rosignano Solvay, Tuscany, Italy
66 credits
Academy Awards 1
Goya Award for Best Costume Design 1
Awards
Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1994 Best Costume Design Won The Age of Innocence
Goya Award for Best Costume Design 1 won
- 2010 Best Costume Design Won Agora
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Gabriella Pescucci (born 1941 in Rosignano Solvay, Tuscany) is an Italian costume designer. She has worked with directors Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone, Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton and Neil Jordan. In 1993 she won an Oscarfor The Age of Innocence. Gabriella Pescucci was born in Tuscany in the province of Livorno. She studied Art at Accademia, Florence. In 1966 moved to Rome with the express intention of becoming a costume designer for the cinema. She began her career as an assistant to Piero Tosi on the sets of Visconti’s Medea and Death in Venice. Pescucci took her first steps in cinema withGiuseppe Patroni Griffi at the start of the 70s, designing costumes that took inspiration from paintings by Carpaccio and Leonardo. Her international debut was in 1984 with Once Upon a Time in America, for which she won the first of her two BAFTA Awards, the second being for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by director Terry Gilliam and scenographer Dante Ferretti. She received many other nominations and awards, among which a David di Donatello with The Name of the Rose and an Oscar for The Age of Innocence in 1993. Some of her most popular works include costume design on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Les Misérables and Agora. In addition to her film and television work she has designed for the Opera, notably La Traviata at La Scala, Un ballo in maschera at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C., and La bohème in Florence.
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Filmography
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Other credits
44 credits
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Once Upon a Time in America
Penny Dreadful
Van Helsing
The Brothers Grimm
The Name of the Rose
Beowulf
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Cousin Bette
Les Misérables
Agora
Dangerous Beauty
Indochine
The Age of Innocence
The Scarlet Letter
City of Women
Time Regained
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Identikit
Passion of Love
A Talent for a Murder
That Night of Varennes
The First Beautiful Thing
The Divine Nymph
The Family
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
The Inheritance
Good King Dagobert
Orchestra Rehearsal
What Time Is It?
L'Inverno
Many Wars Ago
The Murri Affair
Solomon & Sheba
The Jewel
The Night and the Moment
Three Brothers
a Jacket
Splendor
The Seagull
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Pantafa
Per amore, solo per amore
Slave of Dreams
Acting
16 credits
The Borgias
Domina
The Decameron
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Death in Venice
Ludwig
Medea
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Lost in La Mancha
The Year of the Cannibals
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
Mademoiselle de Maupin
The Attic
Aurora
Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
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