Jean-Pierre Dorléac, the costume designer who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on the 1980 romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time, has died at 83. A family spokesperson confirmed that Dorléac died Thursday of natural causes at his home in the Hollywood Hills, The Hollywood Reporter reported on 29 July 2026.

Born on 12 April 1943 in Toulon, France, Dorléac built a career that moved fluidly between film and television — costume design being the art of dressing actors in ways that serve both character and period, often invisible to the audience yet essential to a scene's believability. His highest-profile film credit, Somewhere in Time, starred Christopher Reeve as a playwright who wills himself back to 1912 to find the woman he loves, played by Jane Seymour. The film's early-20th-century wardrobe earned Dorléac his Academy Award nomination.

Television brought him equal recognition. Dorléac won Emmy Awards in 1979 for the original Battlestar Galactica and again in 2001 for The Lot, a comedy-drama series set at a fictional Hollywood studio. He designed costumes across all four seasons of NBC's Quantum Leap, which ran from 1989 to 1993 — a series whose time-trelling premise demanded a different visual period in nearly every episode.

His influence extended beyond his own credits. Greg Hall, who later became Arnold Schwarzenegger's personal costumer on eleven films, began his four-decade Hollywood career working for Dorléac on Somewhere in Time, The Hollywood Reporter noted in a 2021 profile.

Dorléac is survived by his spouse, Gilberto Mello. Per his wishes, there will be no memorial service or funeral.