Oscar honors costume designer Piero Tosi Pictures Oscar honors costume designer Piero Tosi A scene from the 1963 historical drama, "The Leopard," featuring work by costume designer Piero Tosi. A veteran of luminous films by such directors as Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica and Franco Zeffirelli, Tosi earned five Academy Award nominations during his career for designs that brought elegance, artistry, passion and humor to neo-realist dramas, historical romances and farcical comedies, including "Death in Venice," "The Damned," and "La Cage Aux Folles." The designer will be honored with a lifetime achievement Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, at the 5th annual Governors Awards, on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. Credit: 20th Century Fox