Venice Film Festival Campari Award to go to costume designer Arianne Phillips

La Biennale di Venezia and Campari has announced that the artist and costume designer Arianne Phillips (Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, A Single Man, The Crow) is the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award of the 79^th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st – September 10th, 2022).

The Campari Passion for Film Award, instituted four years ago at the 75^th Venice Film Festival, seeks to highlight the remarkable contribution given by the director’s closest collaborators to the fulfilment of the artistic project that each film represents. Passion for Film attributes this award to these professional figures (four years ago the prize was awarded to the American film editor Bob Murawski, three years ago to the Italian cinematographer Luca Bigazzi, two years ago to the American jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, last year to the British production designer Marcus Rowland), who are more than just craftsmen: they are artists and co-authors of the films to which they offer the gift of their unparalleled talent.

The ceremony for the award to Arianne Phillips will take place on Monday 5^th of September in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) before the screening Out of Competition of Don’t Worry Darling (USA, 122’) by Olivia Wilde, starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde, Gemma Chan, KiKi Layne and Chris Pine, featuring Arianne Phillips’ costume design.

Arianne Phillips said: “I am extremely honoured to stand with these other great artists in receiving the Campari Passion for Film Award. It is with great excitement to have the opportunity to highlight one of my most fulfilling and special collaborations with director Olivia Wilde.  Don’t Worry Darling was an incredible opportunity to collaborate with a director with an uncompromising vision, whose direction and leadership invited a creative conversation at the highest of levels.  I count myself extremely lucky to be able to collaborate on Don’t Worry Darling, and to receive such wonderful recognition at the Venice film festival for my efforts is both humbling and thrilling. I especially wish to thank Alberto Barbera and the Biennale for this incredible honour.”

Alberto Barbera, director of the Venice International Film Festival, noted: “Arianne Phillips has literally shaped the aesthetics of pop culture (and more) for the past thirty years. Her creative path, which has made her one of the most influential artists in the world of fashion and film, ranges from the definitive codification of dark fashion in The Crow, to nonstop aesthetic innovation in Madonna’s various looks and projects (photo sessions, music videos, and the costumes of six world tours over the last two decades), from the impeccable outfits worn by the protagonists of movies by Tom Ford (who, in his passage from fashion stylist to filmmaker, elected her as his trusted costumer designer) to Tarantino’s dazzling take on 1969 in his movie Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, and all the way to the ambiguous 1950s of Don’t Worry Darling.

“Besides her three well-deserved Oscar nominations, Arianne Phillips isn’t only an excellent film costume designer; she is an artist who knows how to use clothes, fabrics, and accessories like true narrative instruments that, far from just aesthetic and decorative elements, can define the nature and psychology of the characters (and, once they are donned, help actors to “become them”), on a par with the dialogue and framing.”

“This is the fifth year we’re celebrating the official ‘Campari Passion for Film Award’, created by Campari alongside the artistic direction of the Exhibition – announces Clarice Pinto, senior marketing director Campari Group – Sticking with the main theme that everything comes about through Passion, already understood as a fundamental element for inspiring Creativity, the Prize is aimed at showing an appreciation for the figures who, alongside the director, contribute to excellence when creating cinematic art.

“This year, in choosing Arianne Phillips, we have rewarded the uniqueness of a visionary and innovative artist, who has been able to enhance not just the world of Cinema, but also fashion and music, through her incredible taste and talent.”