Deborah Nadoolman Landis

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Deborah Nadoolman Landis
OccupationCostume designer
Years active1977–2010
Spouse
(m. 1980)
Children2, including Max Landis

Deborah Nadoolman Landis (born May 26, 1952)[1] is an American costume designer, author, and professor. She has worked on notable films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Three Amigos, all of which credited her as Deborah Nadoolman. Landis served two terms as president of the Costume Designers Guild of which she has been a member for more than thirty years. She is married to director John Landis; their son is screenwriter Max Landis.[2]

Biography

Born to a

red jacket in Thriller. In addition to many 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 spent five years researching and designing "Hollywood Costume" which opened on October 20, 2012, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. With one hundred and thirty iconic costumes loaned by sixty international archives and private collectors, "Hollywood Costume" was universally well reviewed and broke records at the V&A. Over 265,000 visitors saw the show before it closed on January 27, 2013. Landis headed the curation team as Senior Curator, with

Sir Christopher Frayling, Guest Curator and Keith Lodwick as V&A Curator. The exhibition was designed by the London firm of Casson-Mann and the score for the exhibition was composed by Julian Scott
. The 2013–14 exhibition tour includes the Australian Center for the Moving Image in Melbourne, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona.

Landis has lectured widely on costume design and has taught at the

Cinefondation Jury at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]

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

  1. ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ^ Landis Finds New Challenges In Tv .
  3. ^ Bloom, Nate (February 2, 2012). "Jewish stars: Whales, ghosts and 'Smash'". Cleveland Jewish News.
  4. ^ a b UCLA Faculty: Deborah Nadoolman Landis retrieved December 31, 2012
  5. ^ Harmetz, Aljean (February 16, 1989). "Oscar Nominees Include the Unexpected (Published 1989)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 14, 2023.
  6. ^ "Kraszna-krausz.org.uk". Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
  7. ^ Costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis named to Copley Chair at UCLA

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