Daniela Ciancio (born 5 March 1965) is an Italian

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume ...

, noted chiefly for her film costumes. In 2005, she won the

David di Donatello for Best Costumes The David di Donatello for Best Costumes ( it, David di Donatello per il miglior costumista) is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, ''Academy of Italian Cinema'') to recognize outstanding efforts on the part ...

for her work on the Antonietta De Lillo film '' Il resto di niente''. Ciancio also designed the costumes for the 2013 film ''

La grande bellezza ''The Great Beauty'' ( it, La grande bellezza ) is a 2013 art drama film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Filming took place in Rome starting on 9 August 2012. It premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in com ...

''.

Biography

Ciancio graduated high school in 1983, and proceeded to study stage design at the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli The Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Naples Academy of Fine Arts) is a university-level art school in Naples. In the past it has been known as the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti and the Reale Accademia di Belle Arti. Founded by King Charles VII ...

, earning a diploma in

scenography Scenography (inclusive of scenic design, lighting design, sound design, costume design) is a practice of crafting stage environments or atmospheres. In the contemporary English usage, scenography is the combination of technological and material st ...

. In 1986, she began a collaboration with the

Teatro di San Carlo The Real Teatro di San Carlo ("Royal Theatre of Saint Charles"), as originally named by the Bourbon monarchy but today known simply as the Teatro (di) San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent t ...

and the Nuovo Teatro Nuovo di Napoli. In 1994, she was awarded a diploma at the

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental Film Centre or Italian National film school) was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film. The centre is the oldest film school in ...

, winning an internship with

Piero Tosi Piero Tosi (10 April 1927 – 10 August 2019) was an Italian costume designer. Biography Tosi's film credits include '' Senso'', '' Bellissima'', ''The Leopard'', ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'', ''Death in Venice'', ''The Night Porter'', and ...

. Her career has spanned cinema, theatre, opera and television.

Career

Cinema

* ''

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'' (directed by

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, 2014) * ''

'' (

Paolo Sorrentino Paolo Sorrentino (; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. His 2013 film ''The Great Beauty'' won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the Bafta Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In Italy he was honoure ...

, 2013) * ''

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'' (

, 2008) * '' Mission: Impossible III'' (

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, 2006) * '' Il resto di niente'' (

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, 2005)

Opera

* ''

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'' (

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, 2007) * ''

Nabucco ''Nabucco'' (, short for Nabucodonosor ; en, " Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based on the biblical books of 2 Kings, ...

'' with Roberta Guidi di Bagno ( S. Vizioli), Choregies d'Orange) * ''

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'' ( D. Deane,

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)

Television

* ''

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'' ( M. Pontecorvo, 2014) * '' Il clan dei Camorristi'' ( A. Angelina and A. Sweet, 2013) * ''

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'' ( R. Tognazzi, 2012) * ''

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'' (

Alberto Bader Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic '' Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albert ...

, 2008)

Board service

Between 2009 and 2013 Ciancio has been a member of the board of the

European Film Academy The European Film Academy is an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988. The Academy—under the name of European Cinema Soci ...

(EFA), European Film Award – Berlin and she is a jury member of the

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (The Academy of Italian Cinema). There are 26 award cat ...

since 2005.

Teaching

Since 2004 Ciancio has taught costume design in, among other places, the “Scuola del Cinema Gianmaria Volonte’” (Rome) and “Lab Costume”.

Awards and honors

References

External links

* http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/great-beauty-daniela-ciancio-interview
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