Gabriella Pescucci
Born: 1943-01-17 in Rosignano Solvay, Tuscany, Italy
Known For: Costume & Make-Up
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.
Filmography
2024
- The Decameron ... (Costume Designer)
2023
- Pantafa ... (Costume Design)
2022
- An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Domina ... (Costume Designer)
2020
- The Burnt Orange Heresy ... (Costume Design)
2016
- Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino as Self
- The Isle of Medea as Self
2015
- Stanotte al Museo Egizio as Ospite
2014
- Penny Dreadful ... (Costume Design)
2011
- The Borgias ... (Costume Designer)
- The Jewel ... (Costume Design)
2010
- The First Beautiful Thing ... (Costume Design)
2009
- Agora ... (Costume Design)
2007
- Beowulf ... (Costume Design)
2006
- Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema as Self
- Don Pasquale ... (Costume Design)
2005
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ... (Costume Design)
- The Brothers Grimm ... (Costume Design)
2004
- Van Helsing ... (Costume Design)
2002
- Lost in La Mancha as Self - Costume Designer
2001
- Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema as Self - Costume Designer
1999
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ... (Costume Designer)
- Time Regained ... (Costume Design)
1998
- Les Misérables ... (Costume Design)
- Dangerous Beauty ... (Costume Design)
- Cousin Bette ... (Costume Design)
- Manon Lescaut ... (Costume Design)
1995
- The Scarlet Letter ... (Costume Design)
- Solomon & Sheba ... (Costume Design)
- The Night and the Moment ... (Costume Design)
- Slave of Dreams ... (Costume Design)
1993
- The Age of Innocence ... (Costume Design)
- Per amore, solo per amore ... (Costume Design)
1992
- Indochine ... (Costume Design)
1991
- The Last Days of Humanity ... (Costume Design)
1989
- What Time Is It? ... (Costume Design)
- Splendor ... (Costume Design)
1988
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ... (Costume Design)
1987
- The Family ... (Costume Design)
1986
- The Name of the Rose ... (Costume Design)
1984
- Once Upon a Time in America ... (Costume Design)
- Good King Dagobert ... (Costume Design)
- Aurora ... (Costume Designer)
1982
- That Night of Varennes ... (Costume Design)
1981
- Passion of Love ... (Costume Design)
- Three Brothers ... (Costume Design)
1980
- City of Women ... (Costume Design)
1979
- Orchestra Rehearsal ... (Costume Design)
1977
- The Seagull ... (Costume Design)
1976
- The Inheritance ... (Costume Design)
1975
- The Divine Nymph ... (Costume Design)
1974
- Identikit ... (Costume Design)
- The Murri Affair ... (Costume Design)
1973
- Ludwig ... (Assistant Costume Designer)
1971
- Death in Venice ... (Assistant Costume Designer)
- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore ... (Costume Design)
1970
- Many Wars Ago ... (Costume Design)
1969
- Medea ... (Assistant Costume Designer)
- The Year of the Cannibals ... (Assistant Costume Designer)
1968
- The Seven Cervi Brothers ... (Costume Design)
1966
- Mademoiselle de Maupin ... (Assistant Costume Designer)
1963
- The Attic ... (Assistant Costume Designer)
- I cuori infranti ... (Assistant Costume Designer)