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Deborah L. Scott

Costume & Make-Up

Born January 1, 1954

Also known as Deborah Scott · Deborah Lynn Scott

Biography

Deborah Lynn Scott (born 1954), also known as Deborah Scott, is a costume designer and set designer, best known for her work in James Cameron's directorial venture, Titanic, which won her the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Scott collaborated with Cameron on his three films in the Avatar film series, earning her second Academy Award nomination for her costume design on Avatar: Fire and Ash. Her first movie as a costume designer was Don't Answer the Phone (1979). Some of her other movies are E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Back to the Future (1985), Legends of the Fall (1994), Wild Wild West (1999), The Patriot (2000), Transformers (2007), Avatar (2009), and Love & Other Drugs (2010). In 2023, she received the Costume Designers Guild Career Achievement Award. She has also worked as an Assistant costume designer on Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The Young Victoria (2009), and as a Set designer on Alouette, je te plumerai (1989) and Midsummer ( Nat Horne Theatre, New York City, 1990). Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Lynn Scott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 1998
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · 1998 · nominated
  • Academy AwardBest Costume Design · nominated

Filmography42 titles

Back to the Future

1985Costume Design

Titanic

1997Costume Design

Heat

1995Costume Design

Avatar: Fire and Ash

2025Costume Design

Avatar: The Way of Water

2022Costume Design

Avatar

2009Costume Design

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1982Costumer

Minority Report

2002Costume Design

Legends of the Fall

1994Costume Design

13 Hours

2016Costume Design

Reign Over Me

2007Costume Design

The Patriot

2000Costume Design

Love & Other Drugs

2010Costume Design

Tolkien

2019Assistant Costume Designer

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

2018Costume Design

Defending Your Life

1991Costume Design

We Bought a Zoo

2011Costume Design

Transformers

2007Costume Design

Looking for Richard

1996Costume Design

The Island

2005Costume Design

Bad Boys II

2003Costume Design

Rebel in the Rye

2017Costume Design

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014Costume Design

The Indian in the Cupboard

1995Costume Design

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983Costume Design

Seraphim Falls

2006Costume Design

Pain & Gain

2013Costume Design

The Upside of Anger

2005Costume Design

Hoffa

1992Costume Design

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011Costume Design

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

2009Costume Design

Get Smart

2008Costume Designer

About Last Night

1986Costume Design

Armed and Dangerous

1986Costume Design

Sliver

1993Costume Design

Aloha

2015Costume Design

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

1996Costume Design

Who's That Girl

1987Costume Design

Rock the Kasbah

2015Costume Design

Lifepod

1981Wardrobe Designer

Wild Wild West

1999Costume Design

Eve of Destruction

1991Costume Design