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name: "Franca Squarciapino"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/franca-squarciapino"
fi1m_id: "franca-squarciapino"
imdb_id: "nm0820037"
tmdb_id: 1883491
wikidata_id: "Q1368213"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "1 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:46:20.949671+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Franca Squarciapino

## Identity

Franca Squarciapino

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/franca-squarciapino
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** franca-squarciapino
- **IMDb ID:** nm0820037
- **TMDB ID:** 1883491
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1368213
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franca_Squarciapino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1368213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820037/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1883491

Costume designer. Born 1 January 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1940, Rome, Lazio, Italy
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franca_Squarciapino, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1368213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820037/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1883491

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Cyrano de Bergerac*](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Franca Squarciapino is an Italian costume designer born in Rome in 1940. She is best known for her work in film, including the Academy Award-winning designs for *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990).

She has designed costumes for numerous films, among them *Colonel Chabert* (1994) and *The Horseman on the Roof* (1995). Squarciapino has also worked extensively in theatre and opera, creating designs for major houses including the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera and Zurich Opera.

She frequently collaborated with production designer Ezio Frigerio, her life partner.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, it.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Fi1m 88, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Paris Opera Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty* (2025), Costume Design
- *Swan Lake Filmed for IMAX* (2024), Costume Design
- *The Metropolitan Opera: La Rondine* (2024), Costume Design
- *Don Carlo* (2023), Costume Design
- *Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreams* (2016), Actor
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini* (2013), Costume Designer
- *Vivaldi, the Red Priest* (2009), Costume Design
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine* (2009), Costume Designer
- *Verdi: La forza del destino* (2007), Costume Design
- *Aida* (2006), Costume Designer
- *Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake* (2005), Costume Designer
- *Otello* (2001), Costume Design
- *Volaverunt* (1999), Costume Design
- *The Horseman on the Roof* (1995), Costume Design
- *Colonel Chabert* (1994), Costume Design
- *Louis, the Child King* (1993), Costume Design
- *The House of Bernarda Alba* (1991), Costume Design
- *Carmen by Georges Bizet* (1991), Costume Design
- *Cyrano de Bergerac* (1990), Costume Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cyrano-de-bergerac.md)
- *Il Trovatore* (1988), Costume Design, Costume Designer
- *Galileo* (1968), Assistant Costume Designer
- *Mademoiselle de Maupin* (1966), as First Maestro

## Gallery

- ![Franca Squarciapino](https://film.one/media/person/77901/gallery-9f815d36e646.jpg) Franca Squarciapino — Terentiyeva, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/2007-%D0%AD%D1%86%D1%86%D0%BE_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE_%28Ezio_Frigerio%29-%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE_%28Franca_Squarciapino%29_-_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_-_Tikhonov_Nikita-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%9B%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Franca Squarciapino](https://film.one/media/person/77901/gallery-50ffd94fe58c.jpg) Franca Squarciapino — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1991: Best Costume Design (won), for *Cyrano de Bergerac*

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 1992: Best Costume Design (won)

### Other awards — 4 won, 1 nominated

- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts 2018: Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (won)
- Goya Award for Best Costume Design 1997: Goya Award for Best Costume Design (won)
- César Award for Best Costume Design 1991: César Award for Best Costume Design (won)
- European Film Award for Best Production Designer 1990: European Film Award for Best Production Designer (won), for *Cyrano de Bergerac*
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1981: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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