Deborah Nadoolman Landis

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Deborah Nadoolman Landis (born 1952) is an American film and theater costume designer responsible for costumes in many notable flims, including Animal House, The 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.

Nadoolman Landis graduated from UCLA with a M.F.A. in Costume Design in 1975, and graduated with a Ph. D. in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art in London. Nadoolman Landis has created several 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.

After receiving her doctorate, Nadoolman Landis has written 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). Dr. Landis has lectured widely on costume design and taught classes at the University of Southern California, the American Film Institute 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, Dr. Landis served on the Cinefondation Jury at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

She is married to American movie actor, director, writer, and producer John Landis.

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