---
name: "Nancy Steiner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nancy-steiner"
fi1m_id: "nancy-steiner"
imdb_id: "nm0825976"
tmdb_id: 5215
wikidata_id: "Q16885863"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-01T21:04:39.110562+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nancy Steiner

## Identity

Nancy Steiner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nancy-steiner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nancy-steiner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0825976
- **TMDB ID:** 5215
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16885863
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Steiner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16885863, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5215

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1990–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Sofia Coppola](https://film.one/person/sofia-coppola.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 73 (4), 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 72 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 73 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 7, Comedy 2, Mystery 2, Romance 2, Thriller 2, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $355m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Steiner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16885863, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825976/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5215

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Twin Peaks*](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) (86), [*The Lovely Bones*](https://film.one/film/the-lovely-bones.md) (46)
- **Peacock:** [*Promising Young Woman*](https://film.one/film/promising-young-woman.md) (72)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Killing of a Sacred Deer*](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nancy Steiner is an American costume designer. She began her career in the late 1980s styling music videos for artists and bands including Nirvana, R.E.M., No Doubt, and others before moving into film and television.

Her film credits include *Safe* (1995), *The Virgin Suicides* (1999), *Lost in Translation* (2003), *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), *The Lovely Bones* (2009), *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017), and *Promising Young Woman* (2020). She also designed costumes for the 2017 series *Twin Peaks: The Return*.

Steiner won a Costume Designers Guild Award for excellence in contemporary film for her work on *Promising Young Woman*.

*Sources: elle.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, vanityfair.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Promising Young Woman* (2020), Fi1m 72, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/promising-young-woman.md)
- *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017), Fi1m 72, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md)
- *The Lovely Bones* (2009), Fi1m 46, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lovely-bones.md)
- *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), Fi1m 78, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/little-miss-sunshine.md)
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Fi1m 86, as Lydia Harris (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Fi1m 83, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), Fi1m 86, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Government Cheese* (2025), series, Costume Design
- *Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F* (2024), Costume Design
- *Extrapolations* (2023), series, Costume Design
- *Promising Young Woman* (2020), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/promising-young-woman.md)
- *The Girl in the Spider's Web* (2018), Costume Design
- *The Killing of a Sacred Deer* (2017), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer.md)
- *The Accountant* (2016), Costume Design
- *Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day* (2014), Costume Design
- *Arthur Newman* (2012), Costume Design
- *Ruby Sparks* (2012), Costume Design
- *Paul* (2011), Costume Design
- *The Lovely Bones* (2009), Costume Design — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lovely-bones.md)
- *Funny People* (2009), Costume Design
- *Year of the Dog* (2007), Costume Design
- *Little Miss Sunshine* (2006), Costume Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/little-miss-sunshine.md)
- *Shopgirl* (2005), Costume Design
- *Elizabethtown* (2005), Costume Design
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), as Lydia Harris (voice) (uncredited) · Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *The Good Girl* (2002), Costume Design
- *Human Nature* (2001), Costume Design
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Costume Design — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)
- *The Million Dollar Hotel* (2000), Costume Design
- *Bongwater* (1998), Costume Design
- *The Winner* (1996), Costume Design
- *Safe* (1995), Costume Design
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)
- *I'm Gonna Git You Sucka* (1988), Wardrobe Assistant

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