Three-time Academy Award-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero got her ninth Oscar nomination, for The Grand Budapest Hotel. The 69-year-old Turin-born Canonero will find out if she has won her fourth Oscar on February 22.
Her last Oscar dates to 2007, when she clinched the award for her costumes in Sophia Coppola's lavish period film Marie Antoniette.
Canonero won her first Oscar in 1976 for her costumes in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and her second in 1982 for her work on Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire, which also bagged the Oscar for best film.
Canonero made her cinema debut with Kubrick in his 1971 A Clockwork Orange, in which she rejected the space-age costumes in Anthony Burgess' source novel in favour of a British pseudo-middle-class yobbo look complete with bowler hats and walking sticks.
She returned to work with Kubrick on Barry Lyndon and for a third time on his 1980 thriller The Shining starring Jack Nicholson.
Canonero has received five other Oscar nominations for her work on the films Out of Africa (1986), Tucker, the Man and His Dream (1989), Dick Tracy (1991), Titus (2000) and The Affair of the Necklace (2002).
The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson, has also been nominated for best film together with American Sniper, Birdman, Boyhood, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything and Whiplash.
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