Known For
Costume & Make-Up
Born
Jan 17, 1943
Place of Birth
Rosignano Solvay, Tuscany, Italy
Credits
67 titles
Gabriella Pescucci
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.
Known For
Filmography
A Talent for Murder
Costume Design
The Decameron
Costume Designer
Pantafa
Costume Design
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self (archive footage)
Domina
Costume Designer
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Costume Design
a Jacket
Costume Design
The Isle of Medea
Self
Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
Self
Stanotte al Museo Egizio
Ospite
Penny Dreadful
Costume Design
The Borgias
Costume Designer
The Jewel
Costume Design
The First Beautiful Thing
Costume Design
Agora
Costume Design
Rien Va
Costume Assistant
Beowulf
Costume Design
Don Pasquale
Costume Design
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
Self
The Brothers Grimm
Costume Design
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Costume Design
Van Helsing
Costume Design
Lost in La Mancha
Self - Costume Designer
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Self - Costume Designer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Costume Designer
Time Regained
Costume Design
Manon Lescaut
Costume Design
Cousin Bette
Costume Design
Les Misérables
Costume Design
Dangerous Beauty
Costume Design
Slave of Dreams
Costume Design
The Scarlet Letter
Costume Design
The Night and the Moment
Costume Design
Solomon & Sheba
Costume Design
Per amore, solo per amore
Costume Design
The Age of Innocence
Costume Design
Indochine
Costume Design
The Last Days of Humanity
Costume Design
What Time Is It?
Costume Design
Splendor
Costume Design
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Costume Design
The Family
Costume Design
The Name of the Rose
Costume Design
Good King Dagobert
Costume Design
Once Upon a Time in America
Costume Design
Aurora
Costume Designer
That Night of Varennes
Costume Design
Passion of Love
Costume Design
Three Brothers
Costume Design
City of Women
Costume Design