Johnston, Joanna

PERSONAL

Born in England.

Addresses: Agent—International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Career: Costume designer. Began career as assistant to costume designer Anthony Powell.

Member: Costume Designers Guild.

Awards, Honors: Fennecus Award, fantasy costume design, and Apex Award, fantasy, science fiction, or horror costume design, both 1988, for Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Apex Award nomination, action, mystery, or thriller costume design, 1989, and Saturn Award nomination, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, best costumes (with Anthony Powell), 1991, both for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Fennecus Award nomination, fantasy costume design, and Apex Award nomination, action, mystery, or thriller costume design, both 1989, and Saturn Award nomination, best costumes, 1991, all for Back to the Future Part II; Fennecus Award nomination, fantasy costume design (with others), and Apex Award nomination, fantasy, science fiction, or horror costume design, both 1990, and Saturn Award, best costumes, 1991, all for Back to the Future Part III; Fennecus Award, contemporary costume design, and Apex Award nomination, fantasy, science fiction, or horror costume design, both 1992, for Death Becomes Her; Fennecus Award, contemporary costume design, 1997, for Contact; Costume Designers Guild Award nomination, contemporary costume design for a film, 2003, for About a Boy.

CREDITS

Film Costume Designer:

Hellraiser (also known as Clive Barker's "Hellraiser"), New World, 1987.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (live-action and animated), Buena Vista, 1988.

(With Anthony Powell) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Paramount, 1989.

Back to the Future Part II, MCA/Universal, 1989.

Back to the Future Part III, Universal, 1990.

Far and Away, 1992.

Death Becomes Her, Universal, 1992.

Forrest Gump, Paramount, 1994.

French Kiss (also known as Paris Match), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1995.

Contact, Warner Bros., 1997.

Saving Private Ryan, Paramount, 1998.

The Sixth Sense, Buena Vista, 1999.

Unbreakable, Buena Vista, 2000.

Cast Away, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000.

About a Boy (also known as About a Boy oder: der tag der toten ente and Pour un garcon), Universal, 2002.

Love Actually, Universal, 2003.

The Polar Express (animated; also released as The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience), Warner Bros., 2004.

War of the Worlds, DreamWorks, 2005.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Return to Normandy (also known as The Making of "Saving Private Ryan"), Special Treats Production, 1998.