Michael Kaplan

Michael Kaplan is an award-winning costume designer who designed the costumes for and . 
His work on Star Trek earned him a Costume Designers Guild Awards nomination in the category Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Fantasy. For his work on Star Trek Into Darkness, he was nominated for a Saturn Award in 2014. 
== Career ==
=== Science fiction films ===
Kaplan is no stranger to the science fiction genre. His first motion picture project as a costume designer was (1982, featuring Joanna Cassidy and Edward James Olmos). Kaplan received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Award for Best Costume Design for his work on this film. 
He later designed the costumes for the 1998 sci-fi film Armageddon, which was co-written by Star Treks producer/director, J.J. Abrams. For his work on this film, Kaplan was nominated for a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Just prior to his work on Star Trek, Kaplan designed the costumes for (2007), whose cast included Salli Elise Richardson.
=== Other film work ===
Following his work on Blade Runner, Kaplan designed the costumes for (1983, starring Michael Nouri). He then worked on (1984, with Saul Rubinek). His other early film credits include (1985, starring Christopher Lloyd and Michael McKean), (1989, starring Peter Weller), (1989, featuring Miriam Flynn and Natalia Nogulich), and Malice (starring Bebe Neuwirth).
Director has utilized Kaplan's talents in (1995), (1997, featuring Elizabeth Dennehy), (1999, starring Zach Grenier and David Andrews), and Panic Room (2002). Kaplan's work on Fight Club earned him a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) Awards in the Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Contemporary category, as did his designs for (2005, featuring Jennifer Morrison).
He also designed the costumes for such films as (2001, featuring Pat Healy, Glenn Morshower, Randy Oglesby, Leland Orser, James Saito, Raphael Sbarge, Cary-Hiroyuki, and Michael Shamus Wiles), (2003, starring Bruce McGill), and (2006). He also worked on (2007, starring Eric Bana). 
Kaplan designed the costumes for (2010) for director Jon Turteltaub and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and (2010). Further work as costume designer includes (2011, with Simon Pegg) and Akiva Goldsman's (2014).
Kaplan reunited with J.J. Abrams to design the costumes for (2015, with Simon Pegg and Greg Grunberg), (2017), and (2019, with Greg Grunberg and the voice of Olivia d'Abo). Abrams served as producer and executive producer on these films, and also co-wrote and directed the first and the third one. Kaplan also worked as costume designer on the 2020 series The Alienist.
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