Nancy Steiner

Nancy Steiner

History

Nancy Steiner is an American costume designer. Her credits include Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, The Lovely Bones, The Good Girl and The Virgin Suicides. Her career started in the late 1980s styling bands for music videos and assisting on films and commercials. Some of the bands Nancy worked with include Stone Temple Pilots, Filter, R.E.M., The Rolling Stones, The Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Sheryl Crow, David Bowie, Air, Fat Boy Slim, Bjork, and R.E.M.. . As time went on Nancy entered the world of film by designing Todd Haynes celebrated film "SAFE", then working with directors such as Sofia Coppola, Michel Gondry, Wim Wenders, Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Peter Jackson, and Miguel Arteta to name a few. Nancy also works in the commercial world with directors including Mark Romanek, Stacy Wall, Sebastian Strasser, Speck/Gordon and Dougal Wilson.

Profile

Nancy Steiner

Movies

Promising Young Woman
Costume Design
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Costume Design
After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Costume Design
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
The Accountant
Costume Design
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Costume Design
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Arthur Newman
Costume Design
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
Ruby Sparks
Costume Design
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Paul
Costume Design
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
Funny People
Costume Design
Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons doesn't give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor delivers stunning health news, forcing George to reevaluate his priorities with a little help from aspiring stand-up comic Ira.
The Lovely Bones
Costume Design
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Year of the Dog
Costume Design
A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
Little Miss Sunshine
Costume Design
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Shopgirl
Costume Design
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
Elizabethtown
Costume Design
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
Lost in Translation
Lydia Harris (voice) (uncredited)
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Lost in Translation
Costume Design
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
The Good Girl
Costume Design
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Human Nature
Costume Design
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.
The Million Dollar Hotel
Costume Design
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
The Virgin Suicides
Costume Design
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Bongwater
Costume Design
David is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena, and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's house burns down. Serena doesn't need the bad vibes, so she splits the scene and runs off to New York with rocker and junkie Tommy. Lonely David finally turns to the sweet, sweet comfort of marijuana and his strange menagerie of friends to forget about his lost home and love
Safe
Costume Design
An upper middle-class housewife suffering from various unexplained symptoms of illness comes to believe that she is suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity and moves into a secluded facility to recover.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley
Costume Design
Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to investigate corruption within the force of the Beverly Hills Police Department with his daughter and her ex-boyfriend, after the death of an old friend.