Milena Canonero, the legendary Italian costume designer recognized for her collaborations with the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty and others,
will obtain this 12 months’s Imaginative and prescient Award on the 78th version of the Locarno Movie Pageant.
She is going to obtain the consideration, offered by Ticinomoda, at Locarno78 on the evening of Sunday, Aug. 10. Throughout the competition, she will even introduce her most up-to-date collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis.
“Since making her debut as a fancy dress designer on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), Milena Canonero has produced among the most visionary costumes in movie historical past and has formed our collective creativeness by means of the garments we see on display screen, utilizing colourful materials and revolutionary cuts to attract out the important natures of among the most recognizable cinematic creations,” Locarno organizers mentioned. “Take the Jazz Age tuxedos and robes of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Membership (1984), the pre-revolutionary aristocratic ruffles in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006), Tilda Swinton’s elaborate, Klimt-like costumes in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Lodge (2014), or the fashionable darkish appears of Catherine Deneuve and Davie Bowie in Tony Scott’s horror movie The Starvation (1983). Or take Warren Beatty’s magnificently colourful Dick Tracy (1990), the memorable outfits of Sidney Pollack’s Out of Africa (1986), the western get-ups of Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers (2018), the long-lasting costumes of Kubrick’s The Shining (1980)… Or certainly, most just lately, her interpretation of a postmodern Roman type in Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024) and her sixth collaboration with Wes Anderson on the ‘50s-set spy movie The Phoenician Scheme (2025).”
Canonero has gained 4 Academy Awards for finest costume design, particularly for Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975), Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fireplace (1981), Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Lodge, together with three BAFTAs, three Costume Designers Guild Awards, the Golden Bear on the Berlinale, and numerous different honors.
“Her pursuits and expertise prolong past costumes, having designed the units in addition to costumes for Barbet Schroeder’s Single White Feminine (1992) and Roman Polanski’s stage play of Amadeus (1999),” Locarno highlighted. “Canonero has additionally directed some shorts and commercials.”
Locarno’s Imaginative and prescient Award pays tribute to folks “whose inventive work has contributed to the renewal of the cinematographic imaginary and over time has been given to masters of particular results, editors, sound designers, composers, musicians, cinematographers, and multidisciplinary artists.”
Giona A. Nazzaro, creative director of the Locarno Movie Pageant, lauded Canonero as “a large of the cinema and artwork of our occasions,” including: “Like a Renaissance artist, she has mixed the profound knowledge of workmanship with the potential of cinema, thus opening infinite areas for human creativeness and expression. The work of Milena Canonero, starting with the costumes she designed for A Clockwork Orange, has endlessly modified the notion of the expressive prospects of costume design and even past, reshaping our serious about cinema generally.”
He concluded: “The lasting, common influence of her artwork is testimony to a vigorous and joyful genius that’s deeply anchored in Italy’s creative traditions, changing into a part of our collective heritage.”
The Locarno Movie Pageant takes place Aug. 6-16.