Gabriella Pescucci

Place of birth:

Rosignano Solvay, Tuscany, Italy:

Biography:

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.



Credits

The Isle of Medea (2016)
Self
Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino (2016)
Self
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
Self - Costume Designer
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema (2001)
Self - Costume Designer
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)
Costume Design
The Jewel (2011)
Costume Design
The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
Costume Design
Agora (2009)
Costume Design
Beowulf (2007)
Costume Design
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Costume Design
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Costume Design
Van Helsing (2004)
Costume Design
Time Regained (1999)
Costume Design
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Costume Designer
Manon Lescaut (1998)
Costume Design
Les Misérables (1998)
Costume Design
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Costume Design
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Costume Design
The Night and the Moment (1995)
Costume Design
Solomon & Sheba (1995)
Costume Design
Per amore, solo per amore (1993)
Costume Design
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Costume Design
Indochine (1992)
Costume Design
The Last Days of Humanity (1991)
Costume Design
What Time Is It? (1989)
Costume Design
Splendor (1989)
Costume Design
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Costume Design
The Family (1987)
Costume Design
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Costume Design
Good King Dagobert (1984)
Costume Design
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Costume Design
The Night of Varennes (1982)
Costume Design
Passion of Love (1981)
Costume Design
Three Brothers (1981)
Costume Design
City of Women (1980)
Costume Design
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
Costume Design
The Seagull (1977)
Costume Design
The Inheritance (1976)
Costume Design
The Divine Nymph (1975)
Costume Design
The Murri Affair (1974)
Costume Design
Identikit (1974)
Costume Design
Ludwig (1973)
Assistant Costume Designer
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971)
Costume Design
Death in Venice (1971)
Assistant Costume Designer
Many Wars Ago (1970)
Costume Design
The Year of the Cannibals (1970)
Assistant Costume Designer
Medea (1970)
Assistant Costume Designer
The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968)
Costume Design
Mademoiselle de Maupin (1966)
Assistant Costume Designer
I cuori infranti (1963)
Assistant Costume Designer