Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Dr. Deborah Nadoolman Landis (born 1952) is an American film and theater costume designer. She worked on such notable films as Animal House, Three Amigos, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Landis recently completed her second term 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.^[1]

Deborah Nadoolman graduated from UCLA with a M.F.A. in Costume Design in 1975. She earned her Ph.D. in History of Design from the Royal College of Art in London. She has created iconic costumes throughout her career, such as the fedora and jacket of Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), the "college" t-shirt worn by John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi), and Michael Jackson's red jacket in Thriller. In addition to many Dramalogue awards for her theater designs, she was nominated for an Academy Award in 1988 for Coming to America.^[2]

After receiving her doctorate, she wrote and edited a number of books including: Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (Harper Collins, 2007), Screencraft/Costume Design (Focal Press, 2003) and 50 Costumes/50 Designers: Concept to Character (University of California Press. 2004).

Landis has lectured widely on costume design and taught classes at the University of Southern California, the AFI Conservatory and is a professor at the University of the Arts, London. She was inducted as a Distinguished Alumni at the UCLA Department of Theater, Film and Television in 2005, and honored as a William Randolf Hearst Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin in 2006. In 2007, she served on the Cinefondation Jury at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. 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.^[3]

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.

Filmography

• Burke and Hare (2010)
• Susan's Plan (1998)
• Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
• Mad City (1997)
• The Stupids (1996)
• Innocent Blood (1992)
• Nothing But Trouble (1991)
• Coming to America (1988) Academy Award nomination
• ¡Three Amigos! (1986)
• Spies Like Us (1985)
• Into the Night (1985/I)
• Crackers (1984)
• Thriller (1983)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 1)
• Trading Places (1983)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• 1941 (1979)
• Animal House (1978)
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

References

1. ^ Landis Finds New Challenges In Tv .
2. ^ Oscar Nominees Include the Unexpected
3. ^ Costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis named to Copley Chair at UCLA

External links

• Deborah Nadoolman Landis at the Internet Movie Database

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