Janty Yates (born 1950) is a British costume designer for film and television. In 2001, she won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the 2000 film Gladiator. Janty Yates worked in the fashion industry prior to her career in film and television. Yates' first credited work was in the wardrobe department on the 1981 film Quest for Fire. Her first credited role as a costume designer was for the 1993 British comedy Bad Behavior, and she worked on a further six films in that role for the rest of the decade. In 2000, her work on Ridley Scott's Gladiator earned her her first career awards, including the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society award for Best Costume Design, as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design and Satellite Award for Best Costume Design. In 2005, she received Best Costume Design nominations from the Costume Designers Guild and Satellite Awards for the 2004 period film De-Lovely. The following year she received her first Goya Award nomination and her third Satellite award nomination for Best Costume Design for Kingdom of Heaven. In 2006, Yates was one of 120 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Yates is a frequent collaborator with Scott, having worked on six films with him in addition to Gladiator, including: Hannibal (2001); Kingdom of Heaven (2005); American Gangster (2007); Body of Lies (2008); Robin Hood (2010), for which she received a Saturn Award nomination and her fourth Satellite Award nomination; and Prometheus (2012). Her most recent film with Scott is the Sci-Fi adventure, The Martian.

Filmography

• 2026The Dog Stars — Costume Design
• 2024Gladiator II — Costume Design
• 2023Napoleon — Costume Design
• 2021House of Gucci — Costume Design
• 2021The Last Duel — Costume Design
• Raised by Wolves — Costume Designer
• 2017Alien: Covenant — Costume Design
• 2017Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos — Costume Designer
• 2017All the Money in the World — Costume Design
• 2015The Martian — Costume Design
• 2014Exodus: Gods and Kings — Costume Design
• 2013The Counselor — Costume Design
• 2012Prometheus — Costume Design
• 2010Robin Hood — Costume Design
• 2008Body of Lies — Costume Design
• 2007American Gangster — Costume Design
• 2006Miami Vice — Costume Design
• 2005Kingdom of Heaven — Costume Design
• 2004De-Lovely — Costume Design
• 2001Charlotte Gray — Costume Design
• 2001Enemy at the Gates — Costume Design
• 2001Hannibal — Costume Design
• 2000Gladiator — Costume Design
• 1999Plunkett & Macleane — Costume Design
• 1999With or Without You — Costume Design
• 1998Four Men in a Car — Costumer
• 1997The Man Who Knew Too Little — Costume Design
• 1997Welcome to Sarajevo — Costume Design
• 1996Jude — Costume Design
• Karaoke — Costume Design
• 1995The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain — Costume Design
• The Glam Metal Detectives — Costume Design
• 1993Bad Behavior — Costume Design
• Cracker — Costume Design
• Yellowthread Street — Costume Design
• 1989The Endless Game — Costume Design
• The Endless Game — Costume Design
• 1985Dance with a Stranger — Costume Supervisor, Wardrobe Assistant
• 1984Oxford Blues — Wardrobe Assistant
• The Comic Strip Presents... — Costume Design

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2015Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' — Self
• 2014Truth of the Situation: Making 'The Counselor' — Self
• 2012The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus — Self
• 2010Rise and Rise Again: Making Ridley Scott's Robin Hood — Self
• 2006The Path to Redemption — Self
• 2005Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' — Self
• The Oscars — Self