Biography
Gabriella Pescucci is an Italian costume designer. She studied art at the Accademia in Florence and moved to Rome in 1966 to work in cinema. She began as an assistant to Piero Tosi on films including Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea and Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice, and took her first credits as designer in the early 1970s with Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.
Her international breakthrough came with Once Upon a Time in America (1984), for which she won a BAFTA Film Award. She received a second BAFTA for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). In 1993 she won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence. Other notable credits include The Name of the Rose (1986), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Van Helsing (2004) and the series Penny Dreadful (2014).
Pescucci has also designed costumes for opera, including productions at La Scala and the Kennedy Center. She has received additional awards including David di Donatello prizes and Emmy Awards.
