“Marie Antoinette” Nabs Canonero Oscar
The lavish, sometimes lurid, apparel seen in Sophia Coppola's Marie Anoinette snagged costume designer Milena Canonero her third Academy Award for best costume design. Her two previous wins (1982 for Chariots of Fire and 1976 for Barry Lyndon, shared with Ulla Britt-Soderlund) keep company with a slew of nominations through the years (The Affair of the Necklace, Titus, Dick Tracy, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Out of Africa).
Not limited to period themes, her body of work is huge, and ranges from the quirky threads in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou to the science fiction film Solaris (2002) and the lambent horror of The Shining. Her work is closely tied to that of the late director Stanley Kubrick, who used her in three of his 16 films. Kubrick first tapped her for the futuristic A Clockwork Orange and kept her for the next two, Barry Lyndon and The Shining.
Canonero accepted her award dressed in Marlena Dietrich-style tuxedo garb.