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5 Oscar Winning Makeup Artists You Should Know

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom

Greg Cannom is a man with an extremely impressive list of awards and nominations. Some of which include being nominated 3 for Emmy awards, 2 BAFTAS Awards, winning 2 Saturn awards, nominated for 6 other films, 3 Oscars for film, Oscar for development of special modified silicon materials for makeup application(first ever scientific makeup award at the Oscars.) With an achievement list like that, it is no wonder he is responsible for some of the most memorable special effects makeup to date. Here is a list of only SOME of the movie titles he has made iconic, and was nominated/won awards for: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Beautiful Mind, Bicentennial Man, Titanic, Mrs. Doubtfire, Dracula, Hook, The Mask, Van Helsing, Hannibal, Blade, The Lost Boys

Edward Sizzorhands - Ve Neill

Ve Neill has also been nominated and won many awards. With 12 wins and 25 nominations altogether it is no wonder she has been chosen for the major motion pictures she is so well know for. Some of which include: Edward sizzorhands, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Mrs. Doubtfire(shared with Greg Cannom, Yolanda Toussieng), Batman Returns, Beetlejuice, The Shining, Ed Wood, Galaxy Quest, Batman Forever, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Pee-wee's Playhouse, and many more.

The Dark Knight - John Caglione Jr.

John Caglione Jr. began his career at 16, after meeting his hero Dick Smith. By 18 he was working for the Makeup Department at NBC and by 24 John won his first Academy Award for best makeup in Quest for Fire. He has gone on to create many award winning movie looks, such as: The Dark Knight, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Winter's Tale, Paranoia, Broken City, Gotham, Tower Heist, The Smurfs, Salt, Edge of Darkness, State of Play, Tenderness , American Gangster, 3:10 to Yuma, The Departed , My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Stay, Hide and Seek, Mona Lisa Smile , Sweet Home Alabama , Unfaithful, American Tragedy, Frequency, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Dick Tracy, Amityville II: The Possession, and many more!

Lord of the Rings - Peter King

Peter King is a British makeup artist best known for his work in the Lord of The Rings series. He also did the makeup in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. He made the prosthetics, wigs, beards and then did a show-and-tell for each character in the film. His work on The Hobbit involved over 1000 drawings before finalizing down to a single image. He has Won 1 Oscar. And been nominated for another 8 wins & 15 nominations including the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards, Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards, CinEuphoria Awards, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, BAFTA Awards, Academy Awards, USA. Other movies he has worked on include: Nanny McPhee , King Kong, American Friends , Love & Other Drugs, The Lovely Bones, Nanny McPhee Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, An Ideal Husband, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Importance of Being Earnest , The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , Bright Young Things, I'm Not There. , Youth Without Youth, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Into the Woods

The Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

Lee and Mathews won the 2014 Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar for their work on The Dallas Buyers Club. This was a first nomination, and first win for both. The buget for the movies hair and makeup was said to have been $250. During the film the makeup shows the deterioration of AIDS Patients. “When you see them in the film, and they look like they’re 25 pounds heavier and healthier because of the medication, that’s just makeup,” Matthews told Vanity Fair. The make-up artist referred to the film as the “most under-budgeted movie” she’s ever been a part of.