Piero Gherardi

Piero Gherardi (born November 20, 1909 in Poppi , Tuscany , † June 8, 1971 in Rome ) was an Italian art director , costume and set designer who twice received the Oscar for best costume design .

biography

Anita Ekberg's costume from the film The Sweet Life (1960)

Gherardi, who worked as an architect after studying architecture , began working as a costume and set designer in the mid- 1940s and was involved in setting up around 40 films such as The Nights of Cabiria (1957) until his death .

For Das süße Leben (1960) he received the Nastro d'Argento of the Italian Film Journalists' Association ( Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI)) for best production design in 1961 and was nominated at the 1962 Academy Awards for the Oscar for best production design in a black and white film and also won the Oscar for best costume design in a black and white film.

In 1964 he received his second Oscar for eight and a half (1963) for best costume design in a black and white film and was also nominated for the second time for the Oscar in the category of best production design in a black and white film.

For the color film Julia und die Geister (1965) he received again the Nastro d'Argento of the SNGCI for the best production design ( Migliore Scenografia ) and was for this film also at the Academy Awards in 1967 for the Oscar for the best costume design as well as for the best production design nominated.

Most recently in 1967 he won a Nastro d'Argento for the third time, this time for best costume design ( Migliori Costumi ) in The Incredible Adventures of the Honorable Knight Branca Leone (1966).

Gherardi, through whose intermediary Lea Massari came to film, worked in the course of his career in particular with Federico Fellini , but also with film directors such as Mario Monicelli .

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

• Piero Gherardi in the Internet Movie Database (English)