Italian costume designer (1927—2019)For the castrato singer, see Pier Francesco Tosi.

Piero Tosi (10 April 1927 – 10 August 2019) was an Italian costume designer.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Partial filmography
• 3 References
• 4 External links

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.

For his personal achievements in costume design over 75 years, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award on 16 November 2013.

He died in Rome on 10 August 2019, at the age of 92.

Partial filmography

References

External links

• Piero Tosi at IMDb
• L'abito e il volto. Incontro con Piero Tosi on YouTube An Italian do*entary directed by Francesco Costabile

1968–present

• Danilo Donati (1968)
• Anthony Mendleson (1969)
• Maria De Matteis (1970)
• Piero Tosi (1971)
• Anthony Mendleson (1972)
• Phyllis Dalton (1973)
• Theoni V. Aldredge (1974)
• Ann Roth (1975)
• Moidele Bickel (1976)
• Danilo Donati (1977)
• Anthony Powell (1978)
• Shirley Ann Russell (1979)
• Seiichiro Momosawa (1980)
• Milena Canonero (1981)
• Michael Kaplan and Charles Knode (1982)
• Piero Tosi (1983)
• Gabriella Pescucci (1984)
• Milena Canonero (1985)
• Jenny Beavan and John Bright (1986)
• Jeffrey Kurland (1987)
• James Acheson (1988)
• Gabriella Pescucci (1989)
• Richard Bruno (1990)
• Franca Squarciapino (1991)
• Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie (1992)
• Janet Patterson (1993)
• Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (1994)
• Charles Knode (1995)
• Shuna Harwood (1996)
• Deirdre Clancy (1997)
• Sandy Powell (1998)
• Colleen Atwood (1999)
• Timmy Yip (2000)
• Jenny Beavan (2001)
• Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor (2002)
• Wendy S*es (2003)
• Jacqueline Durran (2004)
• Colleen Atwood (2005)
• Lala Huete (2006)
• Marit Allen (2007)
• Michael O'Connor (2008)
• Sandy Powell (2009)
• Colleen Atwood (2010)
• Mark Bridges (2011)
• Jacqueline Durran (2012)
• Catherine Martin (2013)
• Milena Canonero (2014)
• Jenny Beavan (2015)
• Madeline Fontaine (2016)
• Mark Bridges (2017)
• Sandy Powell (2018)
• Jacqueline Durran (2019)
• Ann Roth (2020)
• Jenny Beavan (2021)