Weiss, Julie (Juliellen Weiss)

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Weiss, Julie (Juliellen Weiss)

PERSONAL

Daughter of Ben (a physician) and Betty (a community volunteer) Weiss. Education: University of California, Berkeley, B.F.A., 1969; Brandeis University, M.F.A., 1971.

Addresses:

Agent—International Creative Management, 10250 Constellation Way, Ninth Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Career:

Costume designer. Designed costumes for productions at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, DC, for Center Stage, and for an Artists in Prison program, New York City; worked as a costume and wardrobe consultant and also as a casting assistant. Stanford University, member of the drama faculty.

Member:

Costume Designers Guild, Phi Beta Kappa.

Awards, Honors:

Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best costume design, and Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding costume design, 1979, for The Elephant Man; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding costume design for a limited series or a special, 1982, for "The Elephant Man," ABC Theatre of the Month; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding costume design for a limited series or special, 1983, for Little Gloria … Happy at Last; Emmy Award, outstanding costume design for a limited series or special, 1984, for "The Dollmaker," An ABC Theatre Presentation; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding costume design for a limited series or special, 1985, for Evergreen; Saturn Award nomination, best costumes, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, 1988, for Masters of the Universe; Fennecus Award, best contemporary costume design, 1989, for Steel Magnolias; DramaLogue awards, outstanding costume design, both 1990, for The Collection and The Maids, both produced as part of 50/60 Vision; Emmy Award nomination (with Isaac Mizrahi), outstanding individual achievement in costume design for a variety or music program, 1993, for Liza Minnelli Live! From Radio City Music Hall; Emmy Award, outstanding individual achievement in costume design for a miniseries or a special, 1995, for A Woman of Independent Means; Fennecus Award, best fantasy costume design, and Apex Award, best costume design for fantasy, science fiction, or horror, both 1995, and Saturn Award, best costumes, and Academy Award nomination, best costume design, both 1996, all for Twelve Monkeys; Fennecus Award, best contemporary costume design, 1999, and Costume Designers Guild Award, excellence in costume design for film—contemporary, 2000, both for American Beauty; Golden Satellite Award, International Press Academy, Academy Award nomination, and Film Award nomination, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, all best costume design, and Costume Designers Guild Award nomination, excellence in costume design for film—period or fantasy, all 2003, for Frida; Emmy Award nomination (with Elaine Ramires), outstanding costumes for a miniseries, movie, or special, 2006, and Costume Designers Guild Award nomination, outstanding costume design for a television movie or miniseries, 2007, both for Mrs. Harris; Costume Designers Guild Award, excellence in costume design for film—contemporary, 2008, for Blades of Glory.

CREDITS

Stage Costume Designer:

(With Kristine Haugan and Lawrence Metzler) The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, New Theatre for Now, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1973.

The Killing of Yablonsky (also known as The Killing of Jablonski), In the Works II Festival, New Theatre for Now, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1974-75.

Oedipus at Home, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1975-76.

And Where She Stops, Nobody Knows, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1976.

Ashes, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1976.

Cross Country, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1976.

Gethsemane Springs, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1976.

City Sugar, Phoenix Theatre Company, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, New York City, 1978.

One Crack Out, Phoenix Theatre Company, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, 1978.

Big and Little, Phoenix Theatre Company, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, 1979.

Later, Phoenix Theatre Company, Marymount Manhattan Theatre, 1979.

Ride a Cock Horse, Hudson Guild Theatre, New York City, 1979.

The Elephant Man, York Theatre at St. Peter's, New York City, 1979, and Booth Theatre, New York City, 1979-81.

Says I, Says He, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1980.

The Winter's Tale, Helen Owen Carey Playhouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, 1980.

Piaf, Plymouth Theatre, New York City, 1981.

Macbeth, Circle in the Square/Uptown, New York City, 1982.

Tales from Hollywood, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1982.

Total Abandon, Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1982, and Booth Theatre, 1983.

An American Comedy, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1983.

Ghetto, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1986.

Galileo, Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY, beginning 1989.

The Collection and The Maids, both produced as part of 50/60 Vision (also known as 50/60 Vision—Plays and Playwrights That Changed the Theatre! Thirteen Plays in Repertory), Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1990.

Happy Days, Classic Stage Company, East Thirteenth Street Theatre, New York City, 1990.

Liza Minnelli: Stepping out at Radio City, Theatre at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, 1991.

Seconds Out, New York Shakespeare Company, Joseph Papp Public Theater, LuEsther Hall, New York City, 1993.

Bandito!, Teatro Campesino, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, 1994.

Avow, Century Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, 2000.

Costume designer for All the Way Home, Conjuring an Event, Henry IV, Part I, The Lion in Winter, The Oldest Living Graduate, Sarah and Abraham, and The Sorrows of Gin. Costume designer for other productions, including productions at the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA.

Major Tours; Costume Designer:

The Elephant Man, U.S. cities, 1979-81.

Film Costume Designer:

(As Juliellen Weiss) Mr. Sycamore, Film Ventures International, 1975.

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, Paramount, 1982.

Independence Day (also known as Follow Your Dreams and Love, Honour and Obey), Warner Bros., 1982.

Second Thoughts, Universal, 1983.

Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (also known as Adventures in the Creep Zone, Road Gangs, Avaruustaistelija, Cacadores no espaco, Cazador del espacio: Aventuras en la zona prohibida, Il cacciatore dello spazio, Kosmiczne lowy, Le guerrier de l'espace, Spacehunter—Jaeger im All, and Spacehunter—uppdrag I den foerbjudna zonen), Columbia, 1983.

Testament, Paramount, 1983.

Creator (also known as The Big Picture), Universal, 1985.

The Mean Season, Orion, 1985.

Masters of the Universe (also known as Masters of the Universe: The Motion Picture), Cannon, 1987.

Costumes for Bette Davis, The Whales of August, Alive Films, 1987.

1969, Atlantic Releasing, 1988.

Tequila Sunrise (also known as Tequila connection), Warner Bros., 1988.

Steel Magnolias, TriStar, 1989.

Wicked Stepmother (also known as A madrasta, En haexa till styvmorsa, Ma belle-mere est une sorciere, Noita muuttaa taloon, Strega per un giorno, and Tanz der Hexen), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1989.

The Freshman (also known as Freshman), TriStar, 1990.

Married to It (also known as Casados con eso, Casados entre si, Di coppia in coppia, Dinner fuer Sechs, Matrimonios, Probleme casniciei, Sarilhos de casados, Sarilhos em familia, Sippuray Zugot, and Ystaevaet ja rakkaat), Orion, 1991.

Costumes for Mariel Hemingway, Falling from Grace (also known as Souvenirs), Sony Pictures Classics, 1992.

Honeymoon in Vegas, Columbia, 1992.

House of Cards (also known as Before I Wake), Miramax, 1993.

Searching for Bobby Fischer (also known as Innocent Moves, A la recherche de Bobby Fischer, Das Koenigsspiel, En busca de Bobby Fischer, In cerca di Bobby Fischer, Kuningaspeli, Lances inocentes, Oikeat siirot, Oskyldiga drag, and Sotto scacco), Paramount, 1993.

It Could Happen to You (also known as Cop Gives Waitress $2 Million Tip! and Cop Tips Waitress $2 Million), TriStar, 1994.

Naked in New York, Fine Line Features, 1994.

Twelve Monkeys (also known as 12 Monkeys), Universal, 1995.

Marvin's Room (also known as My Room), Miramax, 1996.

The Edge (also known as The Bear and the Brain, Bookworm, and The Wild), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997.

Here Dies Another Day, Queen Maeve Productions, 1997.

Touch (also known as Les mains de Dieu, Milagres por encomenda, Tocat, Touch—Der Typ mit den magischen Haenden, and Touch—kosketus), United Artists, 1997.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, MCA/Universal, 1998.

A Simple Plan (also known as A Thousand Miles, Ein Einfacher Plan, and Un plan simple), Paramount, 1998.

American Beauty, DreamWorks, 1999.

Get Carter, Warner Bros., 2000.

The Gift (also known as Intuitions), Paramount Classics, 2000.

Isn't She Great (also known as Ist sie nicht grossartig?), Universal, 2000.

Hearts in Atlantis, Warner Bros., 2001.

Auto Focus (also known as Autofocus, Auto Focus: The Life of Bob Crane, and Bob Crane), Sony Pictures Classics, 2002.

Frida (also known as Frida Kahlo), Miramax, 2002.

The Ring (also known as Ring, Seven Days, Static, A Koer, El aro, Krug, La llamada, La senal, Le cercle, Le cercle—The Ring, O aviso, O chamado, The Ring—Das Grauen schlaeft nie, The ring—La senal, and The Ring—O aviso), DreamWorks, 2002.

The Missing (also known as The Last Ride), Columbia, 2003.

Fun with Dick and Jane (also known as Alternative Career and Fun with Dick & Jane), Columbia, 2005.

Bobby (also known as Bobby Kennedy), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2006.

Hollywoodland (also known as Truth, Justice, and the American Way, Untitled George Reeves Project, Die Hollywood-Verschworueng, Hollywoodland—Bastidores da fama, Hollywoodland—Misterio y muerte detras de camas, and Sta adyta tou Hollywood), Focus Features, 2006.

Blades of Glory, Paramount, 2007.

Slipstream (also known as Slipstream Dream), Strand Releasing, 2007.

The Time Traveler's Wife, New Line Cinema, 2008.

Some sources cite Weiss as the costume designer for Shattered Illusions, Best Pictures/World Wide Pictures Corporation/Lions Gate Films, 1998.

Film Work; Other:

Costume design consultant, Cherry 2000, Orion, 1987.

Casting assistant, The Shawshank Redemption (also known as Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption), Columbia, 1994.

Some sources cite Weiss as the casting director for F/X (also known as F/X—Murder by Illusion and Murder by Illusion), Orion, 1986.

Television Costume Designer; Series:

My Life and Times, ABC, 1991.

Television Costume Designer; Miniseries:

Evergreen, NBC, 1985.

A Woman of Independent Means, NBC, 1995.

Television Costume Designer; Movies:

Little Gloria … Happy at Last, NBC, 1982.

Family Secrets, NBC, 1984.

Do You Remember Love?, CBS, 1985.

Stranger in My Bed, NBC, 1986.

A Conspiracy of Love (also known as Conspiracy of Love), CBS, 1987.

Costume designer for Lindsay Wagner, Shattered Dreams, CBS, 1990.

The Portrait (also known as Painting Churches), TNT, 1993.

Finding Graceland, Cinemax, 1998.

Costumes for Angela Lansbury, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, CBS, 1999.

Mrs. Harris, HBO, 2005.

Television Costume and Wardrobe Work; Movies:

Costume consultant, The Midnight Hour (also known as In the Midnight Hour), ABC, 1985.

Wardrobe consultant, Letting Go, ABC, 1985.

Costume consultant, The Love She Sought (also known as A Green Journey), NBC, 1990.

Costume consultant, Dead on the Money, TNT, 1991.

Television Costume Designer; Specials:

"The 5:48" (also known as "The Five Forty-Eight"), 3 by Cheever (also known as The Cheever Trilogy and 3 by Cheever: The Five Forty-Eight), broadcast on Great Performances, PBS, 1979.

"The Elephant Man," ABC Theatre of the Month (also known as ABC Theatre of the Month: The Elephant Man), ABC, 1982.

"The Dollmaker," An ABC Theatre Presentation, ABC, 1984.

(With Isaac Mizrahi) Liza Minnelli Live! From Radio City Music Hall (also known as Liza Live), PBS, 1992.

Television Costume Designer; Episodic:

The Gangster Chronicles (also known as The Gangster Chronicles: An American Story and Gangster Wars), NBC, episodes in 1981.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (also known as Alfred Hitchcock esittaeae, Alfred Hitchcock presenta, Alfred Hitchcock presente, and Alfred Hitchcock zeigt), NBC, episodes c. 1985-86, USA Network, episodes c. 1987-88.