Joanna Johnston

Joanna Johnston

Biografie

Joanna Johnston first worked with Steven Spielberg assisting Academy Award®–winning costume designer Anthony Powell on "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." She also assisted Powell on such films as "Evil Under the Sun" and Roman Polanski's "Tess."

Other productions, working as assistant designer, include working with Milena Canonero on "Out of Africa," for which Canonero was nominated for an Oscar®. She also assisted Tom Rand on his Oscar-nominated work "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and on "The Shooting Party."

As a costume designer, Johnston has enjoyed a long association with Steven Spielberg, working on such films as "Saving Private Ryan," "Munich," "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," "War of the Worlds," "War Horse" and "Lincoln."

She has also collaborated frequently with Robert Zemeckis on films, including "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "Back to the Future II," "Back to the Future III," "Death Becomes Her," "Contact," "Cast Away," "The Polar Express" and the Academy Award®–winning "Forrest Gump."

Other features include M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable," and Paul and Chris Weitz's "About A Boy," for which she was a Costume Designers Guild Award nominee; and Richard Curtis' "Love Actually" and "Pirate Radio."

Johnston's more recent credits include "Valkyrie," "Jack the Giant Slayer," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation."

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