Award Locarno Film Festival honors costume designer Milena Canonero
The Italian Oscar winner and costume designer Milena Canonero will receive the Vision Award at the Locarno Film Festival next August. She is one of the most important costume designers in film history, the festival said in explaining the award.
26.06.2025, 08:36
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Canonero's work is closely interwoven with the history of cinema, the Locarno Film Festival wrote in a press release on Thursday. Proof of this are the costume designs she has created in a number of important films, which are etched in our visual memory. For example, the ruffles in the film "Marie Antoinette", or Tilda Swinton's gowns in "Grand Budapest Hotel".
The Italian has already received numerous awards for her artistic work, including four Oscars for best costume design in Barry Lyndon's "Chariots of Fire", "Marie Antoinette" and "Grand Budapest Hotel". She has also designed sets for Roman Polanski's production of "Amadeus", directed short films and commercials and designed costumes for prestigious operas around the world.
Her latest work is called "Megalopolis". She will present it in person at the Film Festival, according to the press release.
