Luciana Arrighi

Luciana Maria Arrighi (born 1940) is an Australian and Italian production designer. In 1993, she won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for the film Howards End. 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).

Career Luciana Arrighi was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1940, over the course of their long friendship they claimed "cousinhood". 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).

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. They had a son, Aaron, and daughter, Alalia, the artist Monster Chetwynd. Arrighi splits her time between London and France. 2000

2000 Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film

1979 Best Achievement in Production Design My Brilliant Career 1982 Best Achievement in Costume Design Starstruck

1970 Best Art Direction Women in Love 2000

1999 Best Production Design

2003

My House in Umbria 2009 Into the Storm

1999 Best Production Design

2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Luciana Arrighi