Update: January 31, 2017
It's just been announced that Milena Canonero will receive the Golden Bear homage at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
It's just been announced that Milena Canonero will receive the Golden Bear homage at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Born in Torino, Italy, Milena 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 (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.
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).
She received her ninth nomination and fourth win at the 87th Academy Awards for the film The Grand Budapest Hotel, as well as a nomination & winning the BAFTA for the film The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2015.
Canonero is married to actor Marshall Bell.
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From Wikipedia
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