Joanna Johnston

Costume designer 'Joanna Johnston' (qv) 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' (qv) and 'Robert Zemeckis' (qv) 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' (qv) in films like _Death on the Nile (1978)_ (qv), _Tess (1979)_ (qv), _Evil Under the Sun (1982)_ (qv) and _Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)_ (qv), 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)_ (qv). With _Hellraiser (1987)_ (qv) she got her very first costume designer job and from then on she got her association with Zemeckis in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)_ (qv), _Back to the Future Part II (1989)_ (qv), _Back to the Future Part III (1990)_ (qv), _Death Becomes Her (1992)_ (qv), the multitude of periods of _Forrest Gump (1994)_ (qv), _Contact (1997)_ (qv), _Cast Away (2000)_ (qv), _The Polar Express (2004)_ (qv) and _Allied (2016)_ (qv).With Spielberg, their collaborations resulted in works such as _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)_ (qv), _Saving Private Ryan (1998)_ (qv), _Munich (2005)_ (qv), _War of the Worlds (2005)_ (qv), _War Horse (2011)_ (qv) _Lincoln (2012)_ (qv) - earning her first Oscar nomination. - and most recently _The BFG (2016)_ (qv).Her versatility and quality can also be attested in _Far and Away (1992)_ (qv), _The Sixth Sense (1999)_ (qv), _About a Boy (2002)_ (qv), _Valkyrie (2008)_ (qv), _Pirate Radio (2009)_ (qv) and _Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)_ (qv).::Rodrigo Amaro