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 1950s 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