Vittorio Nino Novarese

Vittorio Nino Novarese (born May 15, 1907 in Rome , † October 17, 1983 in Los Angeles , California ) was an Italian art director , screenwriter and costume designer who won two Oscar for best costume design .

Life

Richard Burton's costume from the 1963 movie Cleopatra

Novarese began as a costume designer in the mid- 1930s , created the costumes for over 50 films after 1860 (1934) and, as a screenwriter, also wrote the templates for more than forty films such as Wild is the Wind (1957).

At the Academy Awards in 1950 , he received his first Oscar nomination for the costumes in the black and white film In the Claws of Borgia (1949). In 1964 , together with Irene Sharaff and Renié, he received the Oscar for best costumes for the color film Cleopatra (1963). At the Academy Awards in 1966 he was nominated twice: on the one hand with Marjorie Best for the color film The Greatest Story of All Time (1965), on the other hand for the color film Michelangelo - Inferno and Ecstasy (1965).

For Cromwell: War to the King (1970), he not only received his second Oscar for best costume design in 1971 , but also a nomination for the BAFTA Award of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Most recently, he was nominated twice for an Emmy in 1981: on the one hand for the costumes in the television film Peter and Paul (1981) produced by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS ), on the other hand for the fourth episode of the television series Masada (1981) by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) .

Novarese, father of actress Letitia Roman , has worked with film directors Robert Day , Boris Sagal , Ken Hughes , Henry King , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , George Stevens and Carol Reed throughout his career and was also responsible for the costumes for the television series Sandokan - The Tiger of Malaysia (1976).

Web links

• Vittorio Nino Novarese in the Internet Movie Database (English)