Luciana Arrighi

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Luciana Arrighi
Born1940 (age 8283)
Citizenship
  • Australian
  • Italian
OccupationProduction designer
Years active1965-present
Spouse
Rupert Chetwynd
(m. 1970;died 2021)
Children2; including Monster Chetwynd

Luciana Maria Arrighi AM (born 1940) is a Brazilian-born, [2] Australian-Italian [lower-alpha 1] [3] production designer. In 1993, she won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Howards End (1992), [4] becoming the first Brazilian-born person to win an Oscar. [2] She also earned two more Oscar nominations in the same category for The Remains of the Day (1993) in 1994, and Anna and the King (1999) in 2000. In 2003, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Art Direction for the television film The Gathering Storm (2002). [5]

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Career

Luciana Arrighi was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1940, [2] [1] daughter of Italian diplomat and former journalist Count Ernesto Arrighi, and Australian Eleanor ("Nellie"), daughter of grazier Douglas Cox. Nellie had been a showgirl with J.C. Williamson Ltd, and later a model for Schiaparelli in Paris, and was distantly related by marriage to the novelist Patrick White (Her paternal grandfather's sister was married to Patrick White's great-uncle); [6] over the course of their long friendship they claimed "cousinhood". [1] Ernesto Arrighi was appointed consul at Melbourne in 1937, and met Nellie on a visit to Sydney. They married in 1939, and Ernesto was posted to Rio de Janeiro, where Luciana, their first child, was born. The family returned to Rome in 1943 before going to Nice on the French Riviera, and after the surrender of Italy to the Allies Ernesto was imprisoned by the Germans for "high treason" in 1943. On his release, he was given a diplomatic posting to Sydney, his wife and two daughters going ahead of him, but he died suddenly before being able to join them. [6] [1]

Arrighi left Brazil with her parents when she was two years old and was raised and educated in Australia, [2] studying at East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School). [7] She went to the United Kingdom, where she worked for the BBC; she was spotted by Ken Russell, who used her talents in some of his early films such as Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) and Women in Love (1969). [3]

She went on to study painting in Italy and she has also worked in costume design in theatre and opera, including with Vienna State Opera, Opera Australia and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. [3] She lived in Paris for two years and was a model for French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. [3] [8]

In 1993, Arrighi received the Silver Ribbon for Best Production Design Award and the Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Howards End directed by James Ivory. She was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film The Remains of the Day (1993), also by James Ivory, and Anna and the King (1999) by Andy Tennant. She won the British BAFTA Award for Best Art Direction for the television film The Gathering Storm (2002), directed by Richard Loncraine. [5]

Personal life

In 1970, Arrighi married Captain Rupert Milo Talbot Chetwynd (1934-2021), of the Grenadier Guards and 21st SAS Regiment, later an adventurer and founder of a medical mission to Afghanistan. He was a descendant of the 6th Viscount Chetwynd. [9] [10] They had a son, Aaron, and daughter, Alalia, the artist Monster Chetwynd. [11] [12] Arrighi splits her time between London and France. [3]

Filmography

Production design

Scenographer:

Costume design

Set and production design

Awards and nominations

AwardYearCategoryNominated workResultRef.
Academy Awards 1993 Best Art Direction Howards End Won [4]
1994 The Remains of the Day Nominated [13]
2000 Anna and the King Nominated [14]
Art Directors Guild Awards 2000 Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film Nominated [15]
Australian Film Institute Awards 1979 Best Achievement in Production Design My Brilliant Career Won [16]
1982 Best Achievement in Costume Design Starstruck Nominated [17]
1998 Best Achievement in Production Design Oscar and Lucinda Won [17]
BAFTA Awards 1970 Best Art Direction Women in Love Nominated [17]
1993 Best Production Design Howards EndNominated [17]
1996 Sense and Sensibility Nominated [17]
2003 The Gathering Storm Won [5]
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 1993Best Production DesignHowards EndWon [18]
2000Anna and the KingNominated [19]
Online Film & Television Association1999Best Production DesignNominated [20]
Primetime Emmy Awards 2003 Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special My House in Umbria Nominated [21]
2009 Into the Storm Nominated [21]
Satellite Awards 2000 Best Art Direction and Production Design Anna and the KingNominated [22]
Online Film & Television Association1999Best Production DesignNominated [23]
Women's International Film & Television Showcase2016Lifetime Achievement AwardLuciana ArrighiWon [24]

Notes

  1. Arrighi holds only Italian and Australian citizenship. [2]

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