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Template:Realworld Michael Kaplan is the award-winning American costume designer who designed the costumes for Star Trek. He is the only major production member who has not previously worked on a project produced or 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 (featuring Joanna Cassidy & Edward James Olmos), 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 four 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. This latter film, like Star Trek, features Jennifer Morrison.

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), and Malice (starring Bebe Neuwirth). More recently, he designed the costumes for such films as 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. He also worked on Curtis Hanson's Lucky You which, like Star Trek, starred Eric Bana.

Some of his more designs work can be seen in the 2007 science fiction thriller I Am Legend, whose cast included Salli Elise Richardson. He is currently working on the fantasy film The Sorcerer's Apprenctice for director Jon Turteltaub and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. He is also attached to Edward Norton's adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel Motherless Brooklyn.

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