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Template:Realworld Michael Kaplan is an award-winning costume designer currently working on the costumes for Star Trek. He is the only major production member who has not previously worked on a project directed by J.J. Abrams. He hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kaplan is no stranger to the science fiction genre: his first motion picture project as a costume designer was the cult 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner (starring Joanna Cassidy), for which he received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Film Award for Best Costume Design. In addition, he was nominated for a Saturn Award for his work on the 1998 sci-fi disaster film Armageddon, which was co-written by Star Trek's producer/director, J.J. Abrams.

Director David Fincher has utilized Kaplan's skills in his films Se7en (1995), The Game (1997, featuring Elizabeth Dennehy), Fight Club (1999, starring Zach Grenier and David Andrews), and Panic Room (2002). Kaplan's work on Fight Club earned him a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild (CDG) Awards in the Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Contemporary category, as did his designs for Doug Liman's 2005 hit Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Kaplan's costume design credits also include Flashdance (starring Michael Nouri), Clue (starring Christopher Lloyd and Michael McKean), Cat Chaser (starring Peter Weller), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (featuring Miriam Flynn and Natalia Nogulich), Malice (starring Bebe Neuwirth), The Long Kiss Goodnight, Pearl Harbor (featuring Pat Healy, Glenn Morshower, Randy Oglesby, Leland Orser, James Saito, Raphael Sbarge, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Michael Shamus Wiles), Matchstick Men (starring Bruce McGill), the infamous Gigli, and Michael Mann's Miami Vice. His designs can next be seen in the 2007 science fiction thriller I Am Legend, whose cast includes Salli Elise Richardson.

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