Known For
Costume & Make-Up
Credits
44 titles
Joanna Johnston
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).
Known For
Filmography
The Girlfriend
Costume Design
The Thursday Murder Club
Costume Design
Here
Costume Design
The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Self
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Costume Design
Il cacio con le pere
Costumer
Pinocchio
Costume Design
Jurassic World Dominion
Costume Design
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Costume Design
Welcome to Marwen
Costume Design
Spielberg
Self
Allied
Costume Design
The BFG
Costume Design
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Costume Design
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Costume Design
Jack the Giant Slayer
Costume Design
Lincoln: An American Journey
Self
Lincoln
Costume Design
War Horse
Costume Design
Tales from the Future
Self
The Boat That Rocked
Costume Design
Valkyrie
Costume Design
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Costume Design
Munich
Costume Design
War of the Worlds
Costume Design
The Polar Express
Costume Design
Love Actually
Costume Design
About a Boy
Costume Design
Cast Away
Costume Design
Unbreakable
Costume Design
The Sixth Sense
Costume Design
Saving Private Ryan
Costume Design
Contact
Costume Design
French Kiss
Costume Design
Forrest Gump
Costume Design
Death Becomes Her
Costume Design
Far and Away
Costume Design
Back to the Future Part III
Costume Design
Back to the Future Part II
Costume Design
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Costume Design
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Costume Design
Hellraiser
Costume Design
The Shooting Party
Assistant Costume Designer
Tess
Assistant Costume Designer