The 2025 Colour Prize was awarded to Massimo Cantini Parrini, a renowned Florentine costume designer with a career marked by numerous international awards. His training began at the State Institute of Art in Porta Romana and continued at Polimoda, a school affiliated with F.I.T. in New York. He then graduated in Fashion Culture and Stylism at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Florence. During his academic studies, he won a competition at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and became an assistant to Oscar-winning Piero Tosi.  After a few years alongside another Oscar winner, Gabriella Pescucci, he began his brilliant career as a costume designer, graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts.

Massimo Cantini Parrini have achieved six victories on nine David di Donatello nominations (2016-2025), as well as numerous other national and international recognitions such as six Nastri d’Argento, the Flaiano Prize, five golden Ciak, the nominations on the CDG (Costume Designer Guild), the Critics’ Choice Award and the BAFTA. In 2018, he received the EFA, the European Oscar for Best Costume Designer, for Matteo Garrone’s film Dogman.  In 2021, he received his first Oscar nomination, for the costumes of Pinocchio, a film by Matteo Garrone. In 2022, he received his second nomination, for the costumes of Cyrano, a film by Joe Wright. With his costumes, he has worked on exhibits, theatrical pieces, and over fifty movie productions, many of them for internationally renowned directors, always putting colour in all its nuances and consistencies at the centre of his work, while also making careful choices of materials, fabrics, and lighting. The dress thus becomes the protagonist together with the actor, immersed in a contest that Cantini Parrinitakes care of in every detail and nuance.