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Joanna Johnston(I)

  • Costume Designer
  • Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Joanna Johnston
Costume designer Joanna Johnston is a respected name in film business and one of the most talented and sought after in her craft. She is mostly associated with the films of Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis but she also provides the costumes for other directors and can do basically of everything, providing the wardrobe from two different World Wars films to the class of the 1950's and even going to a distant future in crazy time travels. Different films, different styles but always with the same impeccable quality.

She started in the business as an assistant costume designer under the supervision of Anthony Powell in films like Death on the Nile (1978), Tess (1979), Evil Under the Sun (1982) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), with the latter being her first work with Spielberg, who noticed her efforts and selected Joanna to provide the costumes in Kenya for his next project The Color Purple (1985). With Hellraiser (1987) she got her very first costume designer job and from then on she got her association with Zemeckis in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), the multitude of periods of Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004) and Allied (2016).

With Spielberg, their collaborations resulted in works such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005), War of the Worlds (2005), War Horse (2011) Lincoln (2012) - earning her first Oscar nomination. - and most recently The BFG (2016).

Her versatility and quality can also be attested in Far and Away (1992), The Sixth Sense (1999), About a Boy (2002), Valkyrie (2008), The Boat That Rocked (2009) and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015).
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  • Nominated for 2 Oscars
    • 1 win & 21 nominations total

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Joanna Johnston

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Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in Allied (2016)
Allied
7.1
  • Costume Designer
  • 2016
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
Lincoln
7.3
  • Costume Designer
  • 2012
Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Denholm Elliott, Michael Byrne, Alison Doody, and John Rhys-Davies in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8.2
  • Costume Designer(costumes designed by)
  • 1989
Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult in About a Boy (2002)
About a Boy
7.1
  • Costume Designer
  • 2002

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Costume Designer

  • Antonio Banderas, Harrison Ford, Toby Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, John Rhys-Davies, Boyd Holbrook, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivier Richters, and Shaunette Renée Wilson in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
    • Costume Designer
    • 2023
  • Luca Calvani and Francesco Ciampi in Il cacio con le pere (2023)
    Il cacio con le pere
    • Costume Designer
    • 2023
  • Tom Hanks and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth in Pinocchio (2022)
    Pinocchio
    • Costume Designer
    • 2022
  • Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, DeWanda Wise, and Isabella Sermon in Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
    Jurassic World: Dominion
    • Costume Designer
    • 2022
  • Stanley Tucci, Anne Hathaway, Kristin Chenoweth, Josette Simon, Octavia Spencer, Orla O'Rourke, and Jahzir Bruno in The Witches (2020)
    The Witches
    • Costume Designer
    • 2020
  • Steve Carell in Welcome to Marwen (2018)
    Welcome to Marwen
    • Costume Designer
    • 2018
  • Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in Allied (2016)
    Allied
    • Costume Designer
    • 2016
  • Mark Rylance and Ruby Barnhill in The BFG (2016)
    The BFG
    • Costume Designer
    • 2016
  • Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    • Costume Designer
    • 2015
  • Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
    Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
    • Costume Designer
    • 2015
  • Nicholas Hoult and Bill Nighy in Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
    Jack the Giant Slayer
    • Costume Designer
    • 2013
  • Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012)
    Lincoln
    • Costume Designer
    • 2012
  • Jeremy Irvine in War Horse (2011)
    War Horse
    • Costume Designer
    • 2011
  • 10 Minute Tales (2009)
    10 Minute Tales
    • Costume Designer
    • TV Series
    • 2009
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, and Talulah Riley in The Boat That Rocked (2009)
    The Boat That Rocked
    • Costume Designer
    • 2009

Costume Department

  • The Color Purple (1985)
    The Color Purple
    • wardrobe: Kenya
    • 1985
  • Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in Out of Africa (1985)
    Out of Africa
    • assistant costume designer
    • 1985
  • James Mason, Edward Fox, Cheryl Campbell, and Rebecca Saire in The Shooting Party (1984)
    The Shooting Party
    • assistant costume designer
    • 1984
  • Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, and Ke Huy Quan in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
    Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    • assistant costume designer
    • 1984
  • Sahara (1983)
    Sahara
    • wardrobe: London
    • 1983
  • The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
    The Pirates of Penzance
    • costume design assistant
    • 1983
  • Evil Under the Sun (1982)
    Evil Under the Sun
    • assistant to costume designer
    • 1982
  • Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    • assistant to costume designer
    • 1981
  • Tess (1979)
    Tess
    • assistant costume designer
    • 1979
  • Death on the Nile (1978)
    Death on the Nile
    • assistant costume designer (uncredited)
    • 1978

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    As of 2017, she has provided the costume design of six films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Forrest Gump (1994),Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Munich (2005), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012). Of those, Forrest Gump (1994) is a winner in the category.
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      Frequently provides costumes for Steven Spielberg films.

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