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Milena Canonero
Highest Rated: 92% The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Lowest Rated: 9% Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2011)
Birthday: Jan 1, 1946
Birthplace: Turin, Italy
A renowned Oscar-winning costume designer with an impressive resume of film work as well as opera credits, Italian-born Milena Canonero started off her movie career with a bang, working with Stanley Kubrick as costume designer for 1971's "A Clockwork Orange." Here she broke new ground, tossing aside the space-age costumes described in Anthony Burgess' source novel and opting for a more realistic look with cues from modern history, in keeping with Kubrick's adaptation. Canonero appropriated the style of British middle-class propriety to disturbing effect in outfitting these brutal futuristic street gangs, with Malcolm McDowell's Alex donning a bowler and a walking stick. Conversely, older characters, like Alex's mother, wore shiny futuristic fabrics and had unnaturally bright colored hair, making for an interesting and unsettling visual contrast. In 1975 the designer reteamed with Kubrick, sharing her first Academy Award (with Ulla-Britt Soderlund) for the painstaking recreations of 18th-century styles for the director's drama "Barry Lyndon." She costumed 1978's harrowing "Midnight Express" before working again with Kubrick as designer for "The Shining" (1980).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hill of Vision | Producer | - | 2022 |
| 75% | 76% | The French Dispatch | Costume Designer | $16.1M | 2021 |
| 87% | 68% | The Sisters Brothers | Costume Design | $3.1M | 2018 |
| 47% | 39% | Paris Can Wait | Costume Design | $5.6M | 2016 |
| 92% | 86% | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Costume Design | $59.1M | 2014 |
| 9% | 35% | Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You | Executive Producer | - | 2011 |
| 70% | 66% | Carnage | Costume Design | $2.5M | 2011 |
| 33% | 33% | The Wolfman | Costume Design | $61.9M | 2010 |
| 69% | 78% | The Darjeeling Limited | Costume Design | $11.9M | 2007 |
| 71% | 45% | Belle Toujours | Costume Design | $10.6K | 2006 |
| 57% | 56% | Marie Antoinette | Costume Design | $16.0M | 2006 |
| 57% | 82% | The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou | Costume Design | $24.0M | 2004 |
| 55% | 60% | Ocean's Twelve | Costume Design | $125.5M | 2004 |
| 66% | 59% | Solaris | Costume Design | $15.0M | 2002 |
| 15% | 42% | The Affair of the Necklace | Costume Design | $430.3K | 2001 |
| 69% | 86% | Titus | Costume Design | $1.9M | 1999 |
| 76% | 68% | Bulworth | Costume Design | $26.4M | 1998 |
| 82% | 81% | Death and the Maiden | Costume Design | $3.1M | 1994 |
| 53% | 44% | Single White Female |
Production Design, Costume Design |
$46.2M | 1992 |
| 66% | 67% | The Godfather, Part III | Costume Design | $64.6M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bachelor | Costume Design | - | 1990 |
| 80% | 73% | Good Morning Babylon | Associate Producer | $26.5K | 1987 |
| 59% | 66% | The Hunger | Costume Design | - | 1983 |
| 83% | 93% | The Shining | Costume Design | - | 1980 |
| 90% | 88% | Midnight Express | Costume Design | - | 1978 |
| 87% | 92% | Barry Lyndon | Costume Design | - | 1975 |
| 87% | 93% | A Clockwork Orange | Costume Design | - | 1971 |