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Costume Designers Guild Fits Francine Jamison-Tanchuck For Career Honor


Francine Jamison-Tanchuck has been working on movie and TV costumes for more than 45 years, and now she is being fitted for a lifetime honor. The Costume Designers Guild said today that she will re…

She is in the awards-season hunt this year for The Color Purple and also worked on such recent pics as One Night in Miami, They Cloned Tyrone and Emancipation. Along the way, she worked on such pics as Barely Lethal, This Christmas, Big Momma’s House, Courage Under Fire, Boomerang and White Men Can’t Jump and HBO’s miniseries The Wire. She started as a costumer on the 1970s NBC series Serpico and went on to work on pics including Robert Redford’s The Electric Horseman, Joel Schumacher’s St. Elmo’s Fire, Arnold Schwarzenegger starrer The Running Man and Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple and John Landis’ Eddie Murphy pic Coming to America before moving to costume designer on Glory.

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