Gabriella Pescucci
# Gabriella Pescucci

Gabriella Pescucci (Italian pronunciation:; born 17 January 1943) 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 1994, she won the Oscar for Best Costume Design for the 1993 film The Age of Innocence.

## Biography

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 Pasolini's Medea and Visconti's Death in Venice. Pescucci took her first steps in cinema with Giuseppe 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 production designer 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

| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1963 | I cuori infranti | Vittorio Caprioli | |
| 1967 | How to Kill 400 Duponts | Steno | |
| 1968 | The Seven Cervi Brothers | Gianni Puccini | |
| 1970 | Many Wars Ago | Francesco Rosi | |
| 1971 | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | |
| 1974 | The Sensual Man | Marco Vicario | |
| 1974 | Identikit | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | |
| 1974 | Drama of the Rich | Mauro Bolognini | Won—Nastro d'Argento 1975 |
| 1975 | The Divine Nymph | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Won—Nastro d'Argento 1976 |
| 1976 | The Inheritance | Mauro Bolognini | |
| 1977 | The Seagull | Marco Bellocchio | |
| 1978 | Orchestra Rehearsal | Federico Fellini | |
| 1980 | City of Women | Federico Fellini | Won—Nastro d'Argento 1980 |
| 1981 | Three Brothers | Francesco Rosi | |
| 1981 | Passion of Love | Ettore Scola | |
| 1982 | That Night in Varennes | Ettore Scola | Nominated—Nastro d'Argento 1983 Won—David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1983 |
| 1984 | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | Won—BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design 1985 |
| 1984 | Aurora | Maurizio Ponzi | TV movie |
| 1984 | Good King Dagobert | Dino Risi | |
| 1985 | Orfeo | Claude Goretta | |
| 1985 | Il trovatore | Brian Large | TV Opera |
| 1986 | The Name of the Rose | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Won—David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1987 Won—Nastro d'Argento 1987 |
| 1987 | The Family | Ettore Scola | Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1987 |
| 1988 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Costume Design 1990 Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume 1991 Won—BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design 1990 Won—Nastro d'Argento 1990 |
| 1988 | Haunted Summer | Ivan Passer | |
| 1988 | Splendor | Ettore Scola | Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1989 |
| 1989 | What Time Is It? | Ettore Scola | |
| 1990 | Norma | | TV Opera by writer Felice Romani |
| 1992 | Indochine | Régis Wargnier | Nominated—César Award for Best Costume Design 1993 |
| 1992 | La traviata | Manuela Crivelli | Opera at La Scala |
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | Won—Academy Award for Best Costume Design 1993 Won—Nastro d'Argento 1993 |
| 1993 | For Love, Only for Love | Giovanni Veronesi | Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1994 |
| 1995 | The Night and the Moment | Anna Maria Tatò | |
| 1995 | The Scarlet Letter | Roland Joffé | |
| 1995 | Solomon and Sheba Slave of Dreams | Robert M. Young | Showtime TV movies shot in Morocco |
| 1996 | Cavalleria rusticana | | TV Opera written by Guido Menasci |
| 1998 | Dangerous Beauty | Marshall Herskovitz | |
| 1998 | Les Misérables | Bille August | |
| 1998 | Manon Lescaut | Manuela Crivelli | TV Opera |
| 1998 | Cousin Bette | Des McAnuff | |
| 1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Michael Hoffman | |
| 1999 | Time Regained | Raúl Ruiz | Nominated—César Award for Best Costume Design 2000 |
| 2001 | Un ballo in maschera | Carlo Battistoni | Opera at Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C. |
| 2003 | Lost Love | Franco Battiato | Nominated—Nastro d'Argento 2004 |
| 2004 | Secret Passage | Ademir Kenović | |
| 2004 | Van Helsing | Stephen Sommers | Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume 2005 Nominated—Nastro d'Argento 2005 |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Tim Burton | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design 2006 Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume 2006 Nominated—Costume Designers Guild Awards 2006 Nominated—Academy Award for Best Costume Design 2006 Won—Nastro d'Argento 2006 |
| 2005 | The Brothers Grimm | Terry Gilliam | Won—Capri Hollywood Award 2005 |
| 2007 | La traviata | Manuela Crivelli | Opera at La Scala in Milan |
| 2007 | Beowulf | Robert Zemeckis | |
| 2009 | Agora | Alejandro Amenábar | Won—Goya Award 2010 for Best Costume Design Won—Nastro d'Argento 2010 |
| 2010 | The First Beautiful Thing | Paolo Virzì | Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Costumes 2010 Won—Nastro d'Argento 2010 |
| 2011 | The Jewel | Andrea Molaioli | |
| 2011 | The Wholly Family | Terry Gilliam | Short Film |
| 2011–2012 | The Borgias | Neil Jordan | Showtime Historical Series Won—Emmy Award 2013 (Episode 3.9 The Gunpowder Plot) Nominated—Emmy Award 2012 (Episode 2.10 The Confession) Won—Emmy Award 2011 (Episode 1.04 Lucrezia's Wedding) Nominated—Costume Designers Guild Awards 2014 |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful | John Logan | Showtime Historical Series Nominated—BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2015 Pending—Costume Designers Guild Awards 2016 |
| 2019 | The Burnt Orange Heresy | Giuseppe Capotondi | |

Self-appearances :

| Year | Title | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| 1994 | The 66th Academy Awards | TV special |
| 2001 | Sergio Leone: Cinema, Cinema | TV Documentary |
| 2002 | Lost in La Mancha | TV Documentary starring Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Designer Chocolate | TV Documentary |
| 2010 | XXIV Premios Anuales de la Academia | TV special |
| 2010 | Dante Ferretti: Italian Scenographer | TV Documentary |

## Curiosities

Pescucci was the costume designer for the failed Terry Gilliam project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

