Sanja Milkovic Hays (born 19 September 1958; age 65) is a Costume Designer who worked on Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek Beyond. Among her creations for the former film are the costumes of the Tarlac, Ba'ku, Ellora, Evora and Son'a. [1]
Hays discussed her work for Beyond in the "Set Phasers to Stunning" special feature, which was as a retailer exclusive included in some non-regular Star Trek Beyond Blu-ray releases.
Early life and career[]
Milkovic Hays was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) and attended the University of Zagreb where she received her masters degree in architecture. While working on period films in Europe, Hays met her future husband, filmmaker and boom operator John Hays and moved with him to the United States. She has started to work in the film industry and has been working as costume designer since 1987. Among her early credits as costume supervisor are The Blob (1988) and the comedy Destroying Angel (1990) which was filmed in Yugoslavia.
Beside working as costumer on Meet the Applegates (1990) and Tombstone (1993), she also worked as costume designer on Hyper Space (1989), Masque of the Red Death (1989), Spaced Invaders (1990), And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991, working with Christi Work and featuring Susan Gibney and Armin Shimerman), the thriller Treacherous (1993), and the movie The Albatross (1995), directed, written and edited by her husband and on which she also worked as co-producer.
Further career[]
Milkovic Hays worked as assistant costume designer on Stargate (1994, working with Nancy Malone and Christopher Gilman), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995), and Independence Day (1996).
Further credits as Costume Designer include 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Blade (1998), Beowulf (1999), Mission to Mars (2000, starring Jerry O'Connell), Along Came a Spider (2001, with Anton Yelchin), The Fast and the Furious (2001), XXX (2002), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Taxi (2004), XXX: State of the Union (2005), Gridiron Gang (2006, starring Dwayne Johnson), The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) for which she received a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination in the category Excellence in Fantasy Film in 2009, Piranha 3D (2010), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), and Total Recall (2012).
Prior to Star Trek Beyond, Milkovic Hays worked for director Justin Lin as Costume Designer on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015) and on the pilot episode of the television series Scorpion (2014, produced by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Justin Lin, and April Nocifora).
She also worked as costume designer on four episodes of the television series Sleepy Hollow (2013-2014, featuring John Cho and music by Brian Tyler) and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and co-produced the documentary Red Carpet Burn in 2014.
More recent work as costume designer include The Fate of the Furious (2017), Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), and Captain Marvel (2019, executive produced by Stan Lee and with Lee and Kenneth Mitchell). She has also been attached to Justin Lin's F9 (2020) and Fast X (2021).
Star Trek interviews[]
- 1998 Star Trek: Insurrection - Official Movie Souvenir Magazine, pp. 52-54, "Material Girl" by Larry Nemecek
- 1998 Star Trek: Communicator issue 120, pp. 60-61, "Costumer Sanja Hayes: Creating Those Alien Rags and Riches" by Deborah Fisher
- 2016 Star Trek Beyond: Collector's Edition, pp. 39-43, "Making Star Trek Beyond: The Intergalactic Sewing Bee – Sanja Hays: Costumes" by Ian Spelling
- 2016 Star Trek Beyond retailer exclusive Blu-ray Disc, "Set Phasers to Stunning" special feature
External links[]
- SanjaHays.com – official site
- Sanja Milkovic Hays at the Internet Movie Database
- Sanja Hays at LinkedIn.com
- Sanja Hays at X (formerly Twitter)