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Gabriella Pescucci

Costume & Make-Up · Born 1943-01-17 · Rosignano Solvay, Tuscany, Italy

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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  The Borgias

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  Once Upon a Time in America

  Costume Design

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  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  Costume Design

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  Penny Dreadful

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  Van Helsing

  Costume Design

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  Cousin Bette

  Costume Design

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  Domina

  Costume Designer

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  The Decameron

  Costume Designer

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  The Brothers Grimm

  Costume Design

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  Beowulf

  Costume Design

• 2026A Talent for a MurderCostume Design
• 2024The DecameronCostume Designer
• 2023PantafaCostume Design
• 2022An Oral History of: The Name of the RoseSelf (archive footage)
• 2021DominaCostume Designer
• 2020The Burnt Orange HeresyCostume Design
• 2018a JacketCostume Design
• 2016The Isle of MedeaSelf
• 2016Metti, una sera a cena con PeppinoSelf
• 2015Stanotte al Museo EgizioOspite
• 2014Penny DreadfulCostume Design
• 2011The BorgiasCostume Designer
• 2011The JewelCostume Design
• 2010The First Beautiful ThingCostume Design
• 2009AgoraCostume Design
• 2007BeowulfCostume Design
• 2006Don PasqualeCostume Design
• 2006Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinemaSelf
• 2005The Brothers GrimmCostume Design
• 2005Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryCostume Design
• 2004Van HelsingCostume Design
• 2002Lost in La ManchaSelf - Costume Designer
• 2001Sergio Leone: cinema, cinemaSelf - Costume Designer
• 1999A Midsummer Night's DreamCostume Designer
• 1999Time RegainedCostume Design
• 1998Manon LescautCostume Design
• 1998Cousin BetteCostume Design
• 1998Les MisérablesCostume Design
• 1998Dangerous BeautyCostume Design
• 1995Slave of DreamsCostume Design
• 1995The Scarlet LetterCostume Design
• 1995The Night and the MomentCostume Design
• 1995Solomon & ShebaCostume Design
• 1993Per amore, solo per amoreCostume Design
• 1993The Age of InnocenceCostume Design
• 1992IndochineCostume Design
• 1991The Last Days of HumanityCostume Design
• 1989What Time Is It?Costume Design
• 1989SplendorCostume Design
• 1988The Adventures of Baron MunchausenCostume Design
• 1987The FamilyCostume Design
• 1986The Name of the RoseCostume Design
• 1984Good King DagobertCostume Design
• 1984Once Upon a Time in AmericaCostume Design
• 1984AuroraCostume Designer
• 1982That Night of VarennesCostume Design
• 1981Passion of LoveCostume Design
• 1981Three BrothersCostume Design
• 1980City of WomenCostume Design
• 1979Orchestra RehearsalCostume Design
• 1977The SeagullCostume Design
• 1976The InheritanceCostume Design
• 1975The Divine NymphCostume Design
• 1974The Murri AffairCostume Design
• 1974IdentikitCostume Design
• 1973LudwigAssistant Costume Designer
• 1971'Tis Pity She's a WhoreCostume Design
• 1971Death in VeniceAssistant Costume Designer
• 1970Many Wars AgoCostume Design
• 1969MedeaAssistant Costume Designer
• 1969The Year of the CannibalsAssistant Costume Designer
• 1968The Seven Cervi BrothersCostume Design
• 1966Mademoiselle de MaupinAssistant Costume Designer
• 1963I cuori infrantiAssistant Costume Designer
• 1963The AtticAssistant Costume Designer
• —L'InvernoCostume Design