Sanja Milkovic Hays

Sanja Milkovic Hays is a Costume Designer who worked on and . Among her creations for the former film are the costumes of the Tarlac, Ba'ku, Ellora, Evora and Son'a. 
Hays discussed her work for Beyond in the "Set Phasers to Stunning" special feature, which was as a retailer exclusive included in some non-regular Blu-ray releases.
== Early life and career ==
Milkovic Hays was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) and attended the University of Zagreb where she received her masters degree in architecture. While working on period films in Europe, Hays met her future husband, filmmaker and boom operator and moved with him to the United States. She has started to work in the film industry and has been working as costume designer since 1987. Among her early credits as costume supervisor are (1988) and the comedy Destroying Angel (1990) which was filmed in Yugoslavia.
Beside working as costumer on (1990) and (1993), she also worked as costume designer on Hyper Space (1989), (1989), (1990), (1991, working with Christi Work and featuring Susan Gibney and Armin Shimerman), the thriller Treacherous (1993), and the movie The Albatross (1995), directed, written and edited by her husband and on which she also worked as co-producer.
== Further career ==
Milkovic Hays worked as assistant costume designer on (1994, working with Nancy Malone and Christopher Gilman), (1995), and (1996).
Further credits as Costume Designer include (1997), (1998), (1999), (2000, starring Jerry O'Connell), (2001, with Anton Yelchin), (2001), (2002), (2003), (2004), (2005), (2006, starring Dwayne Johnson), (2008) for which she received a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination in the category Excellence in Fantasy Film in 2009, (2010), (2011), and (2012).
Prior to , Milkovic Hays worked for director Justin Lin as Costume Designer on (2006), (2009), (2011), (2013), and (2015) and on the pilot episode of the television series Scorpion (2014, produced by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Justin Lin, and April Nocifora).
She also worked as costume designer on four episodes of the television series Sleepy Hollow (2013-2014, featuring John Cho and music by Brian Tyler) and (2015) and co-produced the documentary Red Carpet Burn in 2014.
More recent work as costume designer include (2017), (2018), and (2019, executive produced by Stan Lee and with Lee and Kenneth Mitchell). She has also been attached to Justin Lin's (2020) and (2021).
== Star Trek interviews ==
* Star Trek: Insurrection - Official Movie Souvenir Magazine, pp. 52-54, "Material Girl" by Larry Nemecek
* 1998 , "Costumer Sanja Hayes: Creating Those Alien Rags and Riches" by Deborah Fisher
* Star Trek Beyond: Collector's Edition, pp. 39-43, "Making Star Trek Beyond: The Intergalactic Sewing Bee – Sanja Hays: Costumes" by Ian Spelling
* 2016 retailer exclusive Blu-ray Disc, "Set Phasers to Stunning" special feature
== External links ==
* – official site
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Category:Costume designers