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Stefania Cella

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Stefania Cella is an Italian production designer. Born and raised in Milan, Italy, and educated in theatre and art history, Cella developed a design style highly influenced by the interplay of light, shadow, and color. The emotion of the lighting and the aesthetic package in which it is presented provide a subtle context that alters reality to enhance a story. These elements also exist in everyday life, but instead of enhancing stories, they impact the emotional and aesthetic quality of spaces. It is Cella’s sunny studio library, tucked away in the Hollywood Hills, where she researched, prepared, and found inspiration for more than 20 films. Some of those include works with Nick Cassavetes (John Q), Barry Levinson (Man of the Year, What Just Happened), and Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be the Place, The Great Beauty, and Loro). The Great Beauty brought her the highest award in Italy as best designer in 2014, the David di Donatello. In 2015, she collaborated with director Scott Cooper on the Boston-based period film Black Mass. She followed this achievement with her designs for Downsizing, directed by Alexander Payne, and White Boy Rick, directed by Yann Demage. After her third collaboration with Paolo Sorrentino for the epic four-hour feature on Tycoon Silvio Berlusconi’s Loro, she worked with Noah Hawley for the astronaut’s based story, Lucy in the Sky. She collaborated with Sony on Morbius, followed by Moon Knight, directed by Mohamed Diab. Returning to her theatrical education and sensibility, she collaborates once again with Scott Cooper in The Pale Blue Eye, a gothic tale set in 1820 West Point with controlled colours and tones and a language very familiar to her style. She developed, designed, and built sets for Blade in 2023, a relaunch of the franchise set in 1920.

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  Moon Knight

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  Morbius

  Production Design

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  Greek

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  Black Mass

  Production Design

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  Once and Again

  Production Design

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  John Q

  Production Design

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  Downsizing

  Production Design

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  Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

  Production Design

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  The Pale Blue Eye

  Production Design

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  Glory Daze

  Production Design

• 2028The Beatles: JohnProduction Design
• 2028The Beatles: GeorgeProduction Design
• 2028The Beatles: PaulProduction Design
• 2028The Beatles: RingoProduction Design
• 2025Springsteen: Deliver Me from NowhereProduction Design
• 2024DovecoteProduction Designer
• 2022The Pale Blue EyeProduction Design
• 2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Moon KnightSelf - Production Designer
• 2022MorbiusProduction Design
• 2022Moon KnightProduction Design
• 2019Lucy in the SkyProduction Design
• 2018White Boy RickProduction Design
• 2018Loro 2Production Design
• 2018Loro 1Production Design
• 2017DownsizingProduction Design
• 2015Black MassProduction Design
• 2013The Great BeautyProduction Design
• 2012ManiacProduction Design
• 2012The AssetProduction Design
• 2011This Must Be the PlaceProduction Design
• 2010Glory DazeProduction Design
• 2009The Goods: Live Hard, Sell HardProduction Design
• 2008What Just HappenedProduction Design
• 2008Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of ControlProduction Design
• 2007GreekProduction Design
• 2006Man of the YearProduction Design
• 2005SuenoProduction Design
• 2002LeoProduction Design
• 2002John QProduction Design
• 1999Once and AgainProduction Design
• 1998Dangerous BeautyArt Direction
• 1996Papà dice messaProduction Design
• —CompanyProduction Design