Francesca Lo Schiavo Biography

Italian set decorator

Francesca Lo Schiavo (Italian pronunciation: ) is an Italian set decorator.

As of 2023, she is a vice-president on the board of the Ischia Global Film & Music Festival, an international film festival held on the Italian island of Ischia.

She is married to fellow art director and co-collaborator Dante Ferretti.

Awards

Lo Schiavo has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction eight times, winning three of them. The movies which she has been nominated for are:

  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989), Nominated.
  • Hamlet (1990), Nominated.
  • Interview with the Vampire (1994), Nominated.
  • Kundun (1997), Nominated.
  • Gangs of New York (2002), Nominated.
  • The Aviator (2004), Won.
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Won.
  • Hugo (2011), Won.


References

    1968–present
    • Ernest Archer, Harry Lange and Anthony Masters (1968)
    • Donald M. Ashton (1969)
    • Mario Garbuglia (1970)
    • Ferdinando Scarfiotti (1971)
    • Rolf Zehetbauer (1972)
    • Natasha Kroll (1973)
    • John Box (1974)
    • John Box (1975)
    • Geoffrey Kirkland (1976)
    • Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini (1977)
    • Joe Alves (1978)
    • Michael Seymour (1979)
    • Stuart Craig (1980)
    • Norman Reynolds (1981)
    • Lawrence G. Paull (1982)
    • Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli (1983)
    • Roy Walker (1984)
    • Norman Garwood (1985)
    • Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta (1986)
    • Santo Loquasto (1987)
    • Dean Tavoularis (1988)
    • Dante Ferretti (1989)
    • Richard Sylbert (1990)
    • Bo Welch (1991)
    • Catherine Martin (1992)
    • Andrew McAlpine (1993)
    • Dante Ferretti (1994)
    • Michael Corenblith (1995)
    • Tony Burrough (1996)
    • Catherine Martin (1997)
    • Dennis G*ner (1998)
    • Rick Heinrichs (1999)
    • Arthur Max (2000)
    • Aline Bonetto (2001)
    • Dennis G*ner (2002)
    • William Sandell (2003)
    • Dante Ferretti (2004)
    • Stuart Craig (2005)
    • Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland and Jennifer Williams (2006)
    • Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (2007)
    • Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (2008)
    • Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair (2009)
    • Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (2010)
    • Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (2011)
    • Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson (2012)
    • Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn (2013)
    • Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock (2014)
    • Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (2015)
    • Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock (2016)
    • Paul D. Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau (2017)
    • Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (2018)
    • Dennis G*ner and Lee Sandales (2019)
    • Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale (2020)
    • Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos (2021)
    • Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino (2022)
    • Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek (2023)