Deborah Nadoolman Landis

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Biography

Born to a Jewish family,[3] Landis graduated from UCLA with an M.F.A. in costume design in 1975.[4] She earned a Ph.D. in history of design from the Royal College of Art in London.[4] She has created a number of notable costumes, such as the fedora and jacket of Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), the "college" sweatshirt worn by John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi), and Michael Jackson's red jacket in Thriller. In addition to Drama-Logue Awards for her theater designs, she was nominated for an Academy Award in 1988 for Coming to America.[5]

After receiving her doctorate, Landis wrote and edited a number of books. "Hollywood Costume" (the V&A catalogue of the eponymous exhibition) is the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation's 2013 Moving Image Book Award winner.[6]

Landis has lectured on costume design and has taught at the University of Southern California, the AFI Conservatory, and is a professor at the University of the Arts London.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She was inducted as a Distinguished Alumna at the UCLA Department of Theater, Film and Television in 2005, and honored as a William Randolph Hearst Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin in 2006.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2007, she served on the Cinefondation Jury at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2009, Landis became the David C. Copley Chair and the Director of the David C. Copley Center of Costume Design at UCLA, School of Theater, Film & Television.[7]

She is mentioned in "The 21-Second Excitation" episode of The Big Bang Theory for her work on Raiders of the Lost Ark and Michael Jackson's Thriller.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Filmography

(credited as Deborah Nadoolman)

Bibliography

  • Screencraft/Costume Design (Focal Press, 2003)
  • Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (HarperCollins, 2007)
  • Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration (Harper Collins, 2012)
  • FilmCraft: Costume Design (Focal Press, 2012)

Edited by Landis:

  1. 50 Costumes/50 Designers: Concept to Character (University of California Press. 2004)
  2. Hollywood Costume (V&A Publishing, 2012)

References

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  1. ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ↑ Landis Finds New Challenges In Tv .
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  4. ↑ a b UCLA Faculty: Deborah Nadoolman Landis retrieved December 31, 2012
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  7. ↑ Costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis named to Copley Chair at UCLA

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