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Gabriella Pescucci
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, Terr…
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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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2026
A Talent for Murder
Movie Costume Design
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2024
The Decameron
TV show Costume Designer
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2023
Pantafa
Movie Costume Design
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2022
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Domina
TV show Costume Designer
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2020
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Movie Costume Design
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2018
a Jacket
Movie Costume Design
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2016
The Isle of Medea
Movie Self
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2016
Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
Movie Self
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2015
Stanotte al Museo Egizio
Movie Ospite
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2014
Penny Dreadful
TV show Costume Design
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2011
The Borgias
TV show Costume Designer
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2011
The Jewel
Movie Costume Design
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2010
The First Beautiful Thing
Movie Costume Design
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2009
Agora
Movie Costume Design
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2009
Rien Va
Movie Costume Assistant
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2007
Beowulf
Movie Costume Design
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2006
Don Pasquale
Movie Costume Design
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2006
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
Movie Self
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2005
The Brothers Grimm
Movie Costume Design
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2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Movie Costume Design
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2004
Van Helsing
Movie Costume Design
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2002
Lost in La Mancha
Movie Self - Costume Designer
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2001
Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Movie Self - Costume Designer
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1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie Costume Designer
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1999
Time Regained
Movie Costume Design
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1998
Manon Lescaut
Movie Costume Design
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1998
Cousin Bette
Movie Costume Design
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1998
Les Misérables
Movie Costume Design
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1998
Dangerous Beauty
Movie Costume Design
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1995
Slave of Dreams
Movie Costume Design
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1995
The Scarlet Letter
Movie Costume Design
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1995
The Night and the Moment
Movie Costume Design
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1995
Solomon & Sheba
Movie Costume Design
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1993
Per amore, solo per amore
Movie Costume Design
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1993
The Age of Innocence
Movie Costume Design
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1992
Indochine
Movie Costume Design
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1991
The Last Days of Humanity
Movie Costume Design
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1989
What Time Is It?
Movie Costume Design
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1989
Splendor
Movie Costume Design
