# Vittorio Nino Novarese

Vittorio Nino Novarese (15 May 1907 – 17 October 1983) was an Italian costume designer, writer and art director. In a career spanning over four decades, he is recognized for his prolific work across film and television. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design five times, and won twice for Cleopatra (1963) and Cromwell (1970).
Born in Rome, Novarese began his career in Italian cinema in the late 1930s, working in several roles, including both as costume designer and screenwriter. He then emigrated to the U.S. in 1949 and found great success in American cinema. Novarese died in Los Angeles on 17 October 1983, at the age of 76. He was the father of actress Letícia Román.

## Selected filmography
### Film

List of Vittorio Nino Novarese film credits :
| Year | Title | Director | Credited as | Credited as | Notes |
| Year | Title | Director | Costume Designer | Writer | Notes |
| 1934 | 1860 | Alessandro Blasetti | Yes | No | |
| 1938 | The Last Enemy | Umberto Barbaro | Yes | No | Also set decorator |
| 1938 | Ettore Fieramosca | Alessandro Blasetti | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Augusto Mazzetti, Cesare Ludovici and Alessandro Blasetti Co-designed with Marina Arcangeli Novarese designed men's costumes, whereas Arcangeli designed gowns |
| 1939 | No Man's Land | Mario Baffico | Yes | No | |
| 1939 | Hurricane in the Tropics | Pier Luigi Faraldo Gino Talamo | Yes | No | |
| 1940 | Love Trap | Raffaello Matarazzo | Yes | No | Also set decorator |
| 1941 | Marco Visconti | Mario Bonnard | Yes | Yes | Also art director Co-written with Cesare Ludovici and Oreste Gasperini |
| 1941 | The King's Jester | Mario Bonnard | Yes | No | Also art director |
| 1942 | Before the Postman | Mario Bonnard | No | No | Art director aka There's Room Up Ahead |
| 1942 | Rossini | Mario Bonnard | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Parsifal Bassi, Luigi Bonelli, Mario Bonnard, Luciano Doria, Gherardo Gherardi, Vittorio Gui, Alberto Luchini and Edoardo Nulli |
| 1943 | Two Hearts Among the Beasts | Giorgio Simonelli | Yes | No | |
| 1945 | No Turning Back | Alessandro Blasetti | No | Yes | Co-written with Alba De Cespedes and Alessandro Blasetti |
| 1945 | Two Anonymous Letters | Mario Camerini | No | Yes | Co-written with Ivo Perilli Mario Camerini, Carlo Musso and Turi Vasile |
| 1945 | His Young Wife | Mario Soldati | Yes | No | |
| 1947 | Bullet for Stefano | Duilio Coletti | Yes | No | aka The Ferryman |
| 1948 | Prelude to Madness | Gianni Franciolini | No | Yes | Co-written with Gianni Franciolini, Gianna Manzini, Ivo Perilli, Antonio Pietrangeli and Guido Piovene aka Loveless Lovers |
| 1948 | Les Misérables | Riccardo Freda | No | Yes | Co-written with Riccardo Freda, Mario Monicelli and Stefano Vanzina |
| 1948 | The Mysterious Rider | Riccardo Freda | Yes | No | Also art director |
| 1948 | The Man with the Grey Glove | Camillo Mastrocinque | No | Yes | Co-written with Camillo Mastrocinque and Fulvio Palmieri |
| 1948 | Pagliacci | Mario Costa | Yes | No | |
| 1949 | Hand of Death | Carlo Campogalliani | No | Yes | Co-written with Carlo Campogalliani and Paola Ojetti aka Man of Death |
| 1949 | Black Magic | Gregory Ratoff | Yes | No | Co-designed with Georges Annenkov |
| 1949 | Prince of Foxes | Henry King | Yes | No | |
| 1950 | My Beautiful Daughter | Duilio Coletti | No | Yes | Co-written with Fulvio Palmieri aka Miss Italia |
| 1950 | Hawk of the Nile | Giacomo Gentilomo | Yes | Yes | |
| 1950 | Shadow of the Eagle | Sidney Salkow | Yes | No | |
| 1950 | Women and Brigands | Mario Soldati | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Pierre Lestringuez, Nicola Manzari and Mario Soldati aka The King's Guerrillas |
| 1950 | The Thief of Venice | John Brahm | Yes | No | |
| 1951 | The Rival of the Empress | Jacopo Comin Sidney Salkow | Yes | No | |
| 1951 | The Count of Saint Elmo | Guido Brignone | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Guido Brignone and Aldo De Benedetti |
| 1951 | Messalina | Carmine Gallone | Yes | Yes | Also art director Co-written with Carmine Gallone, Albert Valentin, Pierre Laroche and Cesare Ludovici aka The Affairs of Messalina |
| 1951 | Lorenzaccio | Raffaello Pacini | No | Yes | Co-written with Raffaello Pacini and Giampiero Pucci |
| 1952 | The Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino | Pietro Francisci | Yes | No | |
| 1952 | The Adventures of Mandrin | Mario Soldati | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Giorgio Bassani, Augusto Frassinetti and Mario Soldati aka The Affair of Madame Pompadour and Don Juan's Night of Love |
| 1952 | The Dream of Zorro | Mario Soldati | Yes | No | |
| 1952 | The Queen of Sheba | Pietro Francisci | Yes | Yes | Co-written with Raul De Sarro, Pietro Francisci and Giorgio Graziosi |
| 1952 | Il romanzo della mia vita | Lionello De Felice | No | Yes | Co-written with Lionello De Felice |
| 1952 | La colpa di una madre | Carlo Duse | No | Yes | Co-written with Carlo Duse |
| 1952 | Nessuno ha tradito | Roberto Bianchi Montero | No | Yes | Co-written with Carlo De Sanctis and Fulvio Palmieri |
| 1953 | Too Young for Love | Lionello De Felice | No | Yes | Co-written with Franco Brusati and Lionello De Felice aka The Age of Indiscretion |
| 1953 | The Pagans | Ferruccio Cerio | Yes | No | aka The Barbarians |
| 1953 | Frine, Courtesan of Orient | Mario Bonnard | Yes | No | |
| 1953 | The Story of William Tell | Jack Cardiff | Yes | No | Unfinished film |
| 1954 | Maddalena | Augusto Genina | Yes | No | |
| 1954 | Crossed Swords | Milton Krims | Yes | No | |
| 1954 | Concert of Intrigue | Mario Bonnard | Uncredited | Yes | Co-written with Mario Bonnard |
| 1954 | Mata Hari's Daughter | Carmine Gallone | No | Yes | Co-written with Renzo Merusi, Piccini Vitali, Jean Aurel and André Tabet |
| 1954 | Orient Express | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | No | Yes | Co-written with Jacques Companeez, Vitaliano Brancati, Aldo De Benedetti and Agenore Incrocci |
| 1954 | House of Ricordi | Carmine Gallone | No | Yes | Co-written with Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci and Carmine Gallone |
| 1954 | Loves of Three Queens | Marc Allégret Edgar G. Ulmer | Yes | No | aka The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships |
| 1955 | Desperate Farewell | Lionello De Felice | No | Yes | Co-written with Lionello De Felice, Sergio De Pascale and Ernesto Guida |
| 1955 | Beautiful but Dangerous | Robert Z. Leonard | Yes | No | Co-designed with Veniero Colasanti |
| 1955 | La ladra | Mario Bonnard | No | Yes | Co-written with Mario Bonnard |
| 1956 | Symphony of Love | Glauco Pellegrini | Yes | No | |
| 1958 | Captain Falcon | Carlo Campogalliani | No | Yes | Co-written with Carlo Campogalliani, Isabella Conino, Gino Mangini and Emimmo Salvi |
| 1959 | Herod the Great | Victor Tourjansky | Yes | No | |
| 1959 | Conspiracy of the Borgias | Antonio Racioppi | No | Yes | Co-written with Giorgio Costantini, Fernando Morandi and Antonio Racioppi |
| 1959 | Knight Without a Country | Giacomo Gentilomo | No | Story | aka The Faceless Rider |
| 1959 | Head of a Tyrant | Fernando Cerchio | Yes | No | aka Judith and Holofernes |
| 1959 | Sheba and the Gladiator | Guido Brignone | Yes | No | aka Sign of the Gladiator |
| 1960 | The Savage Innocents | Nicholas Ray | Uncredited | No | |
| 1960 | The Story of Ruth | Henry Koster | Yes | No | |
| 1961 | Francis of Assisi | Michael Curtiz | Yes | No | |
| 1963 | Cleopatra | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Yes | No | Co-designed with Irene Sharaff and Renié |
| 1965 | The Greatest Story Ever Told | George Stevens | Yes | No | Co-designed with Marjorie Best |
| 1965 | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Carol Reed | Yes | No | |
| 1965 | The War Lord | Franklin J. Schaffner | Yes | No | |
| 1967 | The King's Pirate | Don Weis | Yes | No | |
| 1970 | Cromwell | Ken Hughes | Yes | No | |
| 1971 | Zachariah | George Englund | Yes | No | |
| 1974 | The Terminal Man | Mike Hodges | Yes | No | Co-designed with Donald Brooks |
| 1978 | Angela | Boris Sagal | Yes | No | Co-designed with François Barbeau |

### Television

List of Vittorio Nino Novarese television credits :
| Year | Title | Contribution | Contribution | Notes |
| Year | Title | Costume Designer | Art Director | Notes |
| 1976 | Sandokan | Yes | Yes | 6 episodes Co-designed costumes with Fabrizio Caracciolo |
| 1981 | Masada | Yes | No | 4 episodes |
| 1981 | The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire | Yes | No | Television film aka Fugitive from the Empire and The Archer and the Sorceress |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | Yes | No | 2 episodes |

## Awards and nominations

| Award | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| Academy Awards | 1949 | Best Costume Design – Black and White | Prince of Foxes | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | 1963 | Best Costume Design – Color | Cleopatra | Won |
| Academy Awards | 1965 | Best Costume Design – Color | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | 1965 | Best Costume Design – Color | The Greatest Story Ever Told | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | 1970 | Best Costume Design | Cromwell | Won |
| British Academy Film Awards | 1970 | Best Costume Design | Cromwell | Nominated |
| Primetime Emmy Awards | 1981 | Outstanding Costume Design for a Series | Masada (Episode: "Part IV") | Nominated |
| Primetime Emmy Awards | 1981 | Outstanding Costume Design for a Special | Peter and Paul | Nominated |