Michael Kaplan

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Kaplan (born in Philadelphia in the 20th century ) is an American costume designer who has worked for the Hollywood film industry since the early 1980s .

Career

Brad Pitt costume in the movie Fight Club (1999)

Kaplan's first costume design for a motion picture was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 1983, which earned him a British Academy Film Award for best costume design. After that, Kaplan worked regularly for major Hollywood productions. He worked with David Fincher for the first time in 1995 for his film Seven , followed by Fight Club in 1996 and The Game in 1997. Armageddon followed in 1998 and Pearl Harbor in 2001 , both for director Michael Bay . His costume design for Mr. & Mrs. Smith won the 2005 Costume Designers Guild Award .

JJ Abrams engaged Kaplan in 2009 for Star Trek , his reboot of the Star Trek film series, in which he was responsible for the costume design and thus also for the design of the new Starfleet uniforms . Abrams also hired him for his Star Wars sequel trilogy Star Wars: The Force Awakens , The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker .

Filmography

Nominations and Awards

British Academy Film Awards

Costume Designers Guild Awards

  • Nominated: 2000 for Outstanding Achievement in a Contemporary Film for Fight Club
  • Nominated: 2006 for Outstanding Achievement in a Contemporary Film for Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  • Nominated: 2010: in the category of Outstanding Achievement in a Fantasy Film for Star Trek
  • Nominated: 2011: in the category of Outstanding Achievement in a Contemporary Burlesque Film
  • Nominated: 2016 for Outstanding Achievement in a Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Nominated: 2018 for Outstanding Achievement in a Sci-Fi / Fantasy Film for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Saturn Awards

  • Nominated: 1999 in the category Best Costumes for Armageddon
  • Nominated: 2014 in the category Best Costumes for Star Trek Into Darkness
  • Nominated: 2016 in the Best Costumes category for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Nominated: 2018 in the Best Costumes for Star Wars: The Last Jedi category

Empire Awards

  • Nominated: 2016 in the category Best Costume Design for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104651