Janty Yates

Janty Yates began her career in the fashion world, and then segued to the film industry as a costume assistant on Jean-Jacques Annaud's Quest for Fire. She subsequently worked on two Mike Newell films: the 1985 thriller Dance with a Stranger and the 1988 drama Soursweet. She served as wardrobe supervisor on Alan Parker's acclaimed Irish music tale The Commitments, and then made her debut as a feature film costume designer with the 1993 British comedy Bad Behaviour.

Janty Yates won the 2000 Academy Award and earned a BAFTA nomination for her costumes evoking ancient Rome in Ridley Scott's Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator. The film marked the first of her feature film collaborations with Scott, which also includes Exodus: Gods and Kings, The Counselor; Prometheus; Robin Hood, for which she received both Saturn and Satellite nominations for Best Costume Design; Body of Lies; American Gangster; Hannibal and Kingdom Of Heaven, for which she received a Goya Award nomination for Best Costume Design.

Yates' notable film credits also include the Michael Winterbottom films Welcome To Sarajevo, Jude and With Or Without You; Michael Mann's Miami Vice; Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemy At The Gates; Christopher Monger's The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain; Jon Amiel's The Man Who Knew Too Little; Gillian Armstrong's Charlotte Gray; and Irwin Winkler's Cole Porter biographical drama De-Lovely, for which her designs of post-Depression elegance earned Yates a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination.

Twentieth Century Fox