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name: "Gianna Gissi"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "5 February 1943"
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# Gianna Gissi

Costume designer. Born 5 February 1943 in Pula.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 5 February 1943, Pula
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56759764, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321135/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2507036

## Biography

Gianna Gissi is an Italian costume designer. Born on 5 February 1943 in Pola (now Pula), she moved to Rome and trained at the Liceo Artistico di Ripetta before graduating from the Accademia di Costume e Moda.

She began her career as an assistant and first took sole credit on television productions in the late 1960s. Gissi has worked extensively with directors Mario Monicelli and Gianni Amelio, and on films including *Il marchese del Grillo* (1981), *Amici miei atto II* (1982), *Johnny Stecchino* (1991), *Il ladro di bambini* (1992) and *The Postman* (1994).

Her awards include David di Donatello prizes for best costumes on *Il marchese del Grillo* (1982) and *Porte aperte* (1990), a Nastro d’Argento, and several festival lifetime achievement awards. She is married to production designer Lorenzo Baraldi.

*Sources: imdb.com, giannagissi.it, it.wikipedia.org, anvgd.it.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Postman* (1994), Fi1m 75, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-postman.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *Due imbroglioni e... mezzo! 2* (2010), series, Costume Design
- *La provinciale* (2006), series, Costume Design
- *An Italian Romance* (2004), Costume Design
- *My Name Is Tanino* (2003), Costume Consultant
- *Il posto dell'anima* (2003), Costume Design
- *Ferrari* (2003), series, Costume Design
- *Il sequestro Soffiantini* (2002), series, Costume Design
- *And now sex* (2001), Costume Design
- *Amore a prima vista* (1999), Costume Design
- *La guerra degli Antò* (1999), Costume Design
- *My Best Friend's Wife* (1998), Costume Design
- *The Way We Laughed* (1998), Costume Design
- *Auguri professore* (1997), Costume Design
- *The Colors of the Devil* (1997), Costume Design
- *Carogne - Ciro and Me* (1995), Costume Design
- *Camerieri* (1995), Costume Design
- *Love Story With Cramps* (1995), Costume Designer
- *The Postman* (1994), Costume Design — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-postman.md)
- *Al lupo, al lupo* (1992), Costume Design
- *Centro storico* (1992), Costume Design
- *The Stolen Children* (1992), Costume Designer
- *Johnny Stecchino* (1991), Costume Design
- *Suffocating Heat* (1991), Costume Designer
- *Open Doors* (1990), Costume Design
- *Blue Tango* (1987), Costume Design
- *Il Bi e il Ba* (1986), Costume Design
- *The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal* (1985), Costume Design
- *Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno* (1984), Costume Design
- *My Friends Act II* (1982), Costume Design
- *The Marquis of Grillo* (1981), Costume Design
- *Hotel Room* (1981), Costume Design
- *Hurricane Rosie* (1980), Costume Design

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won, 6 nominated

- David di Donatello for Best Costumes 2000: David di Donatello for Best Costumes (nominated), for *The Way We Laughed*
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design 2000: Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design (nominated), for *The Way We Laughed*
- David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1999: David di Donatello for Best Costumes (nominated), for *The Way We Laughed*
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design 1999: Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design (nominated), for *The Way We Laughed*
- David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1993: David di Donatello for Best Costumes (nominated), for *The Stolen Children*
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design 1993: Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design (nominated), for *The Stolen Children*
- David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1991: David di Donatello for Best Costumes (won), for *Open Doors*
- David di Donatello for Best Costumes 1982: David di Donatello for Best Costumes (won), for *Il Marchese del Grillo*
- Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design 1982: Nastro d'Argento for Best Costume Design (won), for *Il Marchese del Grillo*

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

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