# Joanna Johnston

Joanna Johnston is an English costume designer who has worked extensively in film, particularly in the United States.

## Life and career

Initially, Johnston worked in the theatre, but in 1978, she became the assistant costume designer (albeit uncredited) on Death on the Nile. This was followed the next year by work on Roman Polanski's Tess. Still an assistant costume designer, Johnston worked for the first time with Spielberg on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and The Color Purple (1985).
Her first feature film costume design credit was Hellraiser (1987). A year later she worked with Robert Zemeckis on the highly successful Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The working relationship with Zemeckis continued through Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), and Allied (2016) for which she received her second nomination for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
In 1989, Spielberg hired her as designer on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and they worked together again on Saving Private Ryan (1998), War of the Worlds (2005), Munich (also 2005) and War Horse (2011). Their latest collaboration is Lincoln for which she received her first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, but lost to three-time nominee Jacqueline Durran, respectively.
Johnston also designed the costumes for two of M. Night Shyamalan's first features The Sixth Sense (1999) and Unbreakable (2000).
She currently lives in the United States. She is interviewed in the HBO documentary Spielberg about her work with Steven Spielberg.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Director |
| 1987 | Hellraiser | Clive Barker |
| 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg |
| 1989 | Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1990 | Back to the Future Part III | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1992 | Far and Away | Ron Howard |
| 1992 | Death Becomes Her | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1995 | French Kiss | Lawrence Kasdan |
| 1997 | Contact | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2000 | Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2000 | Cast Away | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2002 | About a Boy | Chris Weitz Paul Weitz |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Richard Curtis |
| 2004 | The Polar Express | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2005 | War of the Worlds | Steven Spielberg |
| 2005 | Munich | Steven Spielberg |
| 2008 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | Mark Waters |
| 2008 | Valkyrie | Bryan Singer |
| 2009 | The Boat That Rocked | Richard Curtis |
| 2011 | War Horse | Steven Spielberg |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | Bryan Singer |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 2015 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Guy Ritchie |
| 2016 | The BFG | Steven Spielberg |
| 2016 | Allied | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2018 | Welcome to Marwen | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2020 | The Witches | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2022 | Jurassic World Dominion | Colin Trevorrow |
| 2022 | Pinocchio | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2023 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | James Mangold |
| 2024 | Here | Robert Zemeckis |