Joanna Johnston
Known For: Costume & Make-Up
Biography
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), Pirate Radio (2009) and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015).
Filmography
2025
- The Girlfriend ... (Costume Design)
- The Thursday Murder Club ... (Costume Design)
2024
- Here ... (Costume Design)
2023
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ... (Costume Design)
- The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as Self
- Il cacio con le pere ... (Costumer)
2022
- Jurassic World Dominion ... (Costume Design)
- Pinocchio ... (Costume Design)
2020
- Roald Dahl's The Witches ... (Costume Design)
2018
- Welcome to Marwen ... (Costume Design)
2017
- Spielberg as Self
2015
- Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation ... (Costume Design)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ... (Costume Design)
2013
- Jack the Giant Slayer ... (Costume Design)
- Lincoln: An American Journey as Self
2012
- Lincoln ... (Costume Design)
2011
- War Horse ... (Costume Design)
2010
- Tales from the Future as Self
2009
- The Boat That Rocked ... (Costume Design)
2008
- The Spiderwick Chronicles ... (Costume Design)
- Valkyrie ... (Costume Design)
2005
- War of the Worlds ... (Costume Design)
- Munich ... (Costume Design)
2004
- The Polar Express ... (Costume Design)
2003
- Love Actually ... (Costume Design)
2002
- About a Boy ... (Costume Design)
2000
- Cast Away ... (Costume Design)
- Unbreakable ... (Costume Design)
1999
- The Sixth Sense ... (Costume Design)
1998
- Saving Private Ryan ... (Costume Design)
1997
- Contact ... (Costume Design)
1995
- French Kiss ... (Costume Design)
1994
- Forrest Gump ... (Costume Design)
1992
- Death Becomes Her ... (Costume Design)
- Far and Away ... (Costume Design)
1990
- Back to the Future Part III ... (Costume Design)
1989
- Back to the Future Part II ... (Costume Design)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ... (Costume Design)
1988
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit ... (Costume Design)
1987
- Hellraiser ... (Costume Design)
1985
- The Shooting Party ... (Assistant Costume Designer)
1979
- Tess ... (Assistant Costume Designer)