Milena Canonero, Dame Grand Cross (born 13 July 1949) is an Italian

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er, who has worked for both film and stage productions. She has won four Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, and been nominated for the award a total of nine times. She is married to

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Marshall Bell Archibald Marshall Bell (born September 28, 1942) is an American character actor. He has appeared in many character roles in movies and television. He is known for roles in '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge'' (1985), '' Stand by M ...

Career

Born in

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, Canonero studied art, design history and costume design in

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. She then moved to

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, where she began working in small

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and film productions. While designing for

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s in

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, she met many film directors. Her first major film work as a costume designer was in Stanley Kubrick's '' A Clockwork Orange'' ( 1971), having met Kubrick on the set of '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Janu ...

). She worked with Kubrick again on '' Barry Lyndon'' (

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

), for which she won her first Oscar with Ulla-Britt Söderlund, and '' The Shining'' ( 1980). Her second Oscar win was for ''

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'' (

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), directed by

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. Canonero has also designed the costumes for several stagings directed by

Otto Schenk Otto Schenk (born 12 June 1930, in Vienna) is an Austrian actor, and theater and opera director. Life and career Schenk was born to Catholic parents. His father, a lawyer, had Jewish roots and therefore lost his job after the Anschluss in 1938. ...

, such as ''

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'' ( Puccini,

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1979), '' As You Like It'' (

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1980), ''

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'' (

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, Vienna State Opera 1980), '' Andrea Chénier'' ( Giordano, Vienna State Opera 1981), and '' Arabella'' (

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1983). For director

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she created the costumes for new productions of Puccini's ''

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'' (Metropolitan Opera, 2009), and of

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' '' Helena'' ( Burgtheater, Vienna, 2010). In 1986, Canonero became the costume designer for the television series ''

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''. In 2001, Canonero received the Career Achievement Award in Film from the

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. In 2005, Canonero won the guild's award for excellence in contemporary film for her work on

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's ''

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'' ( 2004). She won her third Oscar for

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's '' Marie Antoinette'' ( 2006). FIDM Museum - Film costumes - Grand Budapest Hotel (16476925205)

Canonero reteamed with Anderson in 2014 on ''

The Grand Budapest Hotel ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fiction ...

'', for which she received her ninth nomination and fourth win at the

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. She also won a BAFTA award for her work on the film. Milena Canonero was awarded an

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during the

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