Locarno to Celebrate ‘Barry Lyndon,’ ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Costume Designer Milena Canonero With Lifetime Achievement Award

The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate multi-Oscar-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero, who is admired for her work with Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola and Sofia Coppola, among other directors, with its lifetime achievement award dedicated to creative pioneers.

The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to international indie cinema will be feting Canonero with its Vision Award Ticinomoda and screening her most recent collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola “Megalopolis.”

“Since making her debut as a costume designer on Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), Milena Canonero has produced some of the most visionary costumes in film history and has shaped our collective imagination through the clothes we see on screen, using colorful fabrics and innovative cuts to draw out the essential natures of some of the most recognizable cinematic creations,” the fest said in a statement.

“Take the Jazz Age tuxedos and gowns of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club” (1984), the pre-revolutionary aristocratic ruffles in Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” (2006), Tilda Swinton’s elaborate, Klimt-like costumes in Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014), or the stylish dark looks of Catherine Deneuve and Davie Bowie in Tony Scott’s horror film “The Hunger” (1983),” the statement goes on to point out.

Canonero has been awarded four Academy Awards for Best Costume Design – for Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” (1975); Hugh Hudson’s “Chariots of Fire” (1981), Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette,” and Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Her most recent collaboration with Anderson is on “The Phoenician Scheme.”

“Milena Canonero is a giant of the cinema and art of our times,” said the fest’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro. “Like a Renaissance artist, she has combined the profound wisdom of craftsmanship with the potential of cinema, thus opening infinite spaces for human imagination and expression,” he added. T

The 78th edition of the Locarno fest will run Aug. 6-16.