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Legendary Janty Yates joins filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott again in what is now their sixteenth collaboration since Gladiator in 2000, which won her an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, on the new Gladiator II. Set against the backdrop of Rome’s splendour and decadence, the film is a fascinating story of power, revenge and honour.
Janty will be joined by David Crossman, designer of the military costumes with whom she already worked on Scott’s Napoleon, and writer and curator Keith Lodwick in a Q&A after the screening of the film.
GLADIATOR II
dir: Ridley Scott
with Pedro Pascal, Paul Mescal, Connie Nielsen, Denzel Washington
UK/US | 2024 | 148 min
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist.
With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honour to return the glory of Rome to its people.
A marvellous era to work in, according to Janty Yates, designing the costumes for Gladiator’s Ancient Rome is much more than tunics and togas and covers Egypt, Carthage, Babylon and plenty of military costumes for which Trajan’s Column in Rome has been of great inspiration.
ABOUT JANTY YATES
Janty Yates has been working in films and TV since 1979, working on many varied projects, set in many varied periods and for many different directors.
She became an HOD Costume Designer in 1988 and has had a collaborative relationship with Sir Ridley Scott since 1998 and it is for the great success of Gladiator that she won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design – one of the eight Oscars the film won. She was also nominated for a BAFTA, a Golden Satellite and a Saturn Award.
She has had CDG nominations for De-lovely, for The Martian and for House of Gucci. Golden Satellite nominations for De-lovely and House of Gucci and a Goya nomination for Kingdom of Heaven.
During her career she has worked with Michael Mann (Miami Vice, with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx), Jean-Jacques Annaud (Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law, Ed Harris and Rachel Weitz), Irwin Winkler (De-lovely, with Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd), John Amiel (The Man Who Knew too Little, with Bill Murray), Michael Winterbottom (Jude, with Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston, and Welcome to Sarajevo, with Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei and Jimmy Nesbit), Gillian Anderson (Charlotte Grey, with Cate Blanchett) and Jake Scott (Plunkett & Maclean, with Johnny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler).
During her collaboration with Sir Ridley Scott Janty has worked on such diverse films as Hannibal, American Gangster, Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood, Prometheus, Exodus, Gods & Kings, The Martian, Alien: Covenant, All the Money in the World, The Last Duel, House of Gucci and, most recently, Napoleon.
ABOUT DAVID CROSSMAN
David Crossman began his career in costume after leaving school to join the distinguished costume company Berman’s & Nathans, where he spent nine years developing his costume knowledge. His first large freelance project was working as the Military Costumer on Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, subsequently working again with Spielberg on two other occasions, War Horse and Lincoln.
Amongst Crossman’s other feature film credits are many notable films: Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy, Atonement, La Vie en Rose, Harry Potter 2,3 & 4, Maleficent, Mr Turner and James Bond. These films have given him the chance of working with a wide range of leading directors, such as Mike Leigh, Ridley Scott, Alfonso Cuaron, Ron Howard, Gillian Armstrong and Joe Wright.
In 2013, Crossman was approached to supervise the new series of Star Wars films, which began with JJ Abrams’ The Force Awakens. During that time, he and co-designer Glyn Dillon were asked to design the two prequel films in the series – Rogue One and Solo.
After six years of working consistently on the Star Wars franchise, he returned to one of his favourite subjects, the First World War, co-designing the Sam Mendes film 1917 with Jacqueline Durran. This was followed by co-designing the Batsuit for Matt Reeves’ The Batman. After completing work on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Crossman then began work on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, for which he was nominated for an Academy award alongside Janty Yates. They then went on to work together again on Gladiator II.
ABOUT KEITH LODWICK
Keith Lodwick is a writer, curator and theatre and film historian. He is the former Curator of Theatre and Screen Arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At the V&A, Keith was the assistant curator for the major exhibition Hollywood Costume and he curated the touring exhibition Vivien Leigh: Public Faces, Private Lives.
Keith has contributed to a wide range of publications including The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design (2025), George Hoyningen-Huene (2024), DIVA (2023), Studies in Costume and Performance (2021), Shoe Reels: The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film (2021), Hollywood Costume (2012) and Oliver Messel: In the Theatre of Design (2010). He is currently writing a book about the London costume house Cosprop.
