Italian costume designer (1927–2019)
Piero Tosi
Tosi in 2001
Born (1927-04-10 ) 10 April 1927Died 10 August 2019(2019-08-10) (aged 92) Occupation Costume designer
Piero Tosi (10 April 1927 – 10 August 2019) was an Italiancostume designer . He has received numerous accolades, including twoBAFTA Awards and twoDavid di Donatellos , in addition to nominations for fiveAcademy Awards . In 2013, he became the first costume designer to receive anAcademy Honorary Award as "a visionary whose incomparable costume designs shaped timeless, living art in motion pictures."
Tosi's film credits includeBellissima Senso The Leopard Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Death in Venice The Night Porter La Traviata
He was particularly known for his exhaustively researched and intricately detailed historical costumes.
He won theDavid di Donatello for Best Costumes twice, as well as the 50th Anniversary David in 2006. He also won theBAFTA Award for Best Costume Design twice, and was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Costume Design five times.
He died inRome on 10 August 2019, at the age of 92.[ 1]
Awards and nominations [ edit ] Academy Awards
BAFTA Awards
Miscellaneous awards [ edit ] ^a b c Indicates the year of ceremony. Each year is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible. ^ "È morto il costumista Piero Tosi: lavorò con Visconti, disse no a Kubrick e vinse l'Oscar" .Corriere della Sera . 10 August 2019.Archived from the original on 25 September 2022. Retrieved10 August 2019 .^ "The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners" .Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). 5 October 2014.Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. RetrievedAugust 29, 2016 .^ "The 44th Academy Awards (1972) Nominees and Winners" .Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). 5 October 2014.Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. RetrievedAugust 29, 2016 .^ "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners" .Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). 4 October 2014.Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. RetrievedAugust 29, 2016 .^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners" .Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. RetrievedAugust 29, 2016 .^ "The 55th Academy Awards (1983) Nominees and Winners" .Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). 5 October 2014.Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. RetrievedAugust 29, 2016 .^ "The 2013 Governors Awards" .Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). 8 October 2014.Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. RetrievedAugust 29, 2016 .^ "25th British Academy Film Awards" . British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).Archived from the original on August 23, 2017. RetrievedAugust 15, 2023 .^ "37th British Academy Film Awards" . British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. RetrievedAugust 15, 2023 .
Awards for Piero Tosi
1928–1975 Warner Bros. /Charlie Chaplin (1928)Walt Disney (1932)Shirley Temple (1934)D. W. Griffith (1935)The March of Time W. Howard Greene andHarold Rosson (1936)Edgar Bergen /W. Howard Greene /Museum of Modern Art Film Library /Mack Sennett (1937)J. Arthur Ball /Walt Disney /Deanna Durbin andMickey Rooney /Gordon Jennings ,Jan Domela , Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith,Farciot Edouart ,Loyal Griggs ,Loren L. Ryder , Harry D. Mills,Louis Mesenkop , Walter Oberst /Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey /Harry Warner (1938)Douglas Fairbanks /Judy Garland /William Cameron Menzies /Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt ,Ralph Morgan ,Ralph Block ,Conrad Nagel ) /Technicolor SA (1939)Bob Hope /Nathan Levinson (1940)Walt Disney ,William Garity , John N. A. Hawkins, and theRCA Manufacturing Company /Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott /British Ministry of Information (1941)Charles Boyer /Noël Coward /Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)George Pal (1943)Bob Hope /Margaret O'Brien (1944)Republic Studio,Daniel J. Bloomberg , and the Republic Studio Sound Department /Walter Wanger /The House I Live In Peggy Ann Garner (1945) Harold Russell /Laurence Olivier /Ernst Lubitsch /Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)James Baskett /Thomas Armat ,William Nicholas Selig ,Albert E. Smith , andGeorge Kirke Spoor /Bill and Coo Shoeshine Walter Wanger /Monsieur Vincent Sid Grauman /Adolph Zukor (1948)Jean Hersholt /Fred Astaire /Cecil B. DeMille /The Bicycle Thief Louis B. Mayer /George Murphy /The Walls of Malapaga Gene Kelly /Rashomon Merian C. Cooper /Bob Hope /Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell /Joseph M. Schenck /Forbidden Games 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation /Bell & Howell Company /Joseph Breen /Pete Smith (1953)Bausch & Lomb Optical Company /Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver /Greta Garbo /Jon Whiteley /Vincent Winter /Gate of Hell Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto Eddie Cantor (1956)Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers /Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson /Charles Brackett /B. B. Kahane (1957)Maurice Chevalier (1958)Buster Keaton /Lee de Forest (1959)Gary Cooper /Stan Laurel /Hayley Mills (1960)William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler /Jerome Robbins (1961)William J. Tuttle (1964)Bob Hope (1965)Yakima Canutt /Y. Frank Freeman (1966)Arthur Freed (1967)John Chambers /Onna White (1968)Cary Grant (1969)Lillian Gish /Orson Welles (1970)Charlie Chaplin (1971)Charles S. Boren /Edward G. Robinson (1972) Henri Langlois /Groucho Marx (1973)Howard Hawks /Jean Renoir (1974)Mary Pickford (1975)1976–present
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