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 Italian costume designer . He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design five times. In 2013, he received an Academy Honorary Award as "a visionary whose incomparable costume designs shaped timeless, living art in motion pictures."
Biography
Tosi's film credits include Senso , Bellissima , The Leopard , Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow , Death in Venice , The Night Porter , and La Traviata .
He was particularly known for his exhaustively researched and intricately detailed historical costumes.
He won the David di Donatello for Best Costumes twice, as well as the 50th Anniversary David in 2006. He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design twice, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design five times.
He died in Rome on 10 August 2019, at the age of 92.[1]
Partial filmography
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Academy Awards
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Awards for Piero Tosi
1928–1950
Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
Walt Disney (1932)
Shirley Temple (1934)
D. W. Griffith (1935)
The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey 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 the RCA 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 , and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
1951–1975 1976–2000 2001–present
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Piero Tosi , on Instagram @pierotosiofficial , the only official IG page , created by Valentina Tosi : Piero's niece and Andrea Sorrentino : Costume Designer, Piero Tosi's student and his close friend.