Three-time Academy Award-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero on Thursday got her ninth Oscar nomination, for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The 69-year-old Turin-born Canonero will find out if she has won her fourth Oscar on February 22.
Her last Oscar dates to 2007, when she clinched the award
for her costumes in Sophia Coppola's lavish period film Marie
Antoniette.
Canonero won her first Oscar in 1976 for her costumes in
Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and her second in 1982 for
her work on Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire, which also bagged
the Oscar for best film.
Canonero made her cinema debut with Kubrick in his 1971
A Clockwork Orange, in which she rejected the space-age
costumes in Anthony Burgess' source novel in favour of a
British pseudo-middle-class yobbo look complete with bowler hats
and walking sticks.
She returned to work with Kubrick on Barry Lyndon and
for a third time on his 1980 thriller The Shining starring
Jack Nicholson.
Canonero has received five other Oscar nominations for
her work on the films Out of Africa (1986), Tucker, the Man
and His Dream (1989), Dick Tracy (1991), Titus (2000) and The
Affair of the Necklace (2002).
The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson, has
also been nominated for best film together with American Sniper,
Birdman, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of
Everything and Whiplash.
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