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64th Academy Award Acceptance Speech - Best Makeup -1992

STAN WINSTON:
We’d like to thank Steve LaPorte, Peter Tothpal, all the people at my studio, especially John Rosengrant, Shane Mahan and Richard Landon who’ve been with me from the start. The guy who sat in that chair for four hours every day and made this all work, Arnold Schwarzenegger. And the brilliant director behind it all, Jim Cameron. Thank you.

JEFF DAWN:
And I’d like to give a special thanks to the two men who’ve made this possible for me, made this all happen tonight: Bob and Wes Dawn. The late Bob and Wes Dawn. Wherever you are guys, this is for you. Thank you very much.

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Work by Makeup Artist Alex Box

61st Academy Award Acceptance Speech - Best Makeup - 1989

Year: 1988 (61st) Academy Awards

Category: Makeup

Film Title: Beetlejuice

Winner: Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short

Presenter: Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr.

Date & Venue: March 29, 1989; Shrine Civic Auditorium

VE NEILL:
We’d like to thank the members of the Academy, our producer Richard Hashimoto, our director Tim Burton, Michael Keaton for bringing that wild and wacky character of “Beetlejuice” to life.

STEVE LA PORTE:
Our hairstylist Yolanda Toussieng and a cast of many other makeup artists: Ed Henriques, Margaret Bessera, Mike Mills, Frank Carrisosa, and many others.

ROBERT SHORT:
And thank you to the Academy for the great honor that we’re receiving as well as to Alan Munro and especially to Barbara Slifka for holding this all together. Thank you very much.

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Check out themakeupgallery.com they have some really good reference pics!

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Geena Davis is so 80s I love it!  Supposedly she is the only person from the cast of Beetlejuice who said yes to the project right away.  She is also in The Fly which won for best makeup just a few years before Beetlejuice.

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I love how yucky he looks in this pic!  hmmm Beetlejuice sequel, I really just don’t think they can pull it off.

Gotta love Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice!

60th Academy Awards Acceptance Speech - Best Makeup -1988

Year: 1987 (60th) Academy Awards

Category: Makeup

Film Title: Harry and the Hendersons

Winner: Rick Baker

Presenter: John Candy

Date & Venue: April 11, 1988; Shrine Civic Auditorium

RICK BAKER:
Thank you. Well, first of all I’d like to thank the Academy for having this category and for allowing my work to qualify for it. I’d like to thank Universal, Amblin, Steven Spielberg, Bill Dear, Dick Vane for making the movie. Allen Daviau, for his beautiful photography. Kevin Peter Hall, not only for his brilliant performance, but for his cooperation and for being seven feet tall. My crew: Tom, Tim, Jim, Al, Jack, Lenny, Camilla, Stuart, Matt, all the people who worked so hard on “Harry.” Special thanks to my wife and my parents for their love and support. And last but not least, I’d like to thank all of the great makeup artists, past and present, especially Dick Smith, for inspiring me to work hard to try and become one of them. Thank you very much.

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Amazing makeup by the master Dick Smith!  

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Clip from the Oscars with Rick Baker winning for An American Werewolf in London first annual award for Makeup category

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Some great pics of Rick Baker applying makeup on An American Werewolf in London

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Rick Baker Oscar Best Makeup 1982 American Werewolf in London Director John Landis Starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Griffin Dunne Budget estimated $10,000,000 Filmed in London and other locations in England and Wales, UK Filming Dates Feb-March 1981 Released August 21, 1981

John Chambers Planet of the Apes Film released April 3, 1968 Honorary Oscar won for outstanding achievement in makeup 1969 Director Franklin J. Schaffner Starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter Filming locations Utah, Arizona, L.A (20th Century Fox studios), and Malibu Budget estimated $5,800,000 (I think I read somewhere that the portion of the budget going to makeup was $1mill but can’t find the source)

Makeup Artist Great John Chambers

Pictured above is John Chambers when he won an honorary Academy Award for his makeup work in Planet of the Apes during the 1969 ceremony.

John Chambers was the makeup designer for Star Trek television series, he also worked on Mission: Impossible, I Spy, The Munsters, and Lost in Space and films such as Halloween II and Bladerunner

Born in 1923 in Chicago, Illinois he got his start with prosthetic work in the army during World War II serving as a dental technician.  He created noses, ears, chins, etc. for soliders disfigured in battle.  This led him to work with NBC in the 1950s in their makeup department.  

Chambers has also won an Emmy and has a star on Hollywood’s walk of fame (the first awarded to a makeup artist)  Some of his work can be viewed at the Spy Museum in Washington D.C.

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