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Stan Winston

May 04, 2024

Stanley Winston[1] (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special make-up effects artist, best known for his work in the Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, The Thing, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, and Edward Scissorhands.[2][3][4] He won four Academy Awards for his work.

Stan Winston
Born
Stanley Winston

(1946-04-07)April 7, 1946
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
DiedJune 15, 2008(2008-06-15) (aged 62)
Malibu, California, U.S.
Resting placeHillside Memorial Park Cemetery
OccupationSpecial make-up effects creator
Years active1972–2008
Spouse
Karen Winston
​
(m. 1969)​
Children2, including Matt Winston

Winston, a frequent collaborator with directors James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.

Early life edit

Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Richmond, Virginia[5] to a Jewish family,[6] where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, from which he graduated in 1968.[4]

Career edit

In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.[4]

1970s edit

In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and in 1973, he won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the 1972 telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy Award nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. In 1978, Winston was the Special Make-up Designer for The Wiz.

1980s edit

In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio. However, it was his ground-breaking work with Rob Bottin on his update of the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year that brought him to prominence in Hollywood. He also worked on supervised vision work on The Entity. Between then, he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III, in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending.

In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.[7]

In 1983 he also worked on the short-lived television series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.

Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.[8]

Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.

In 1988, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.

1990s edit

James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects.

In 1992, he was nominated for another Tim Burton film, the superhero sequel Batman Returns, where he designed the makeup prosthetics for Danny DeVito's Penguin. Additionally, his studio was commissioned to create robotic penguin puppets that were used throughout the film.

Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.

Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2-3D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme parks. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.

In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling remix album of all time (13 million).

2000s edit

In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) — but had completely different plots.[9]

In 2002 Winston helped to launch a new comic line, Stan Winston's Realm Of The Claw / Mutant Earth which was a flip book and ran for 4 issues. Stan Winston's Trakk Monster Hunter came out in 2003 and ran for 2 issues. These were published by Image Comics.

In 2003, Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.[10]

Winston also worked on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

By April 2003, Winston was working on his next project, Jurassic Park IV.[11] By April 2005, Winston said the film was on hold.[12] The film would eventually be released in 2015 titled Jurassic World.

At the time of his death, Winston was working on the fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation,[13] as well as frequent collaborator James Cameron's film Avatar. Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering[14] and its sequel, The Suffering: Ties That Bind.

Death edit

 
Johannes Grenzfurthner and Matt Winston talk about Stan Winston and special effects in the 2016 documentary Traceroute

Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California, after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.[2] A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family."[3] Winston was with his wife and two children, actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man. Terminator Salvation is dedicated to both Winston and Joseph R. Kubicek Sr, with the dedication appearing at both the beginning and end of the film. After his death, his four supervisors (Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, Alan Scott, Lindsay Macgowan) founded and built their own studio, Legacy Effects, named to honor his memory.[15]

Stan Winston School edit

In 2009, the year after his passing, the Winston family founded the Stan Winston School of Character Arts to "preserve Stan's legacy by inspiring and fostering creativity in a new generation of character creators.”[16] The school, which is 100% online, currently offers hundreds of in-depth, on-demand educational video courses by Hollywood's leading special effects artists and creators. Topics covered include design, sculpture, mold making, lab work, animatronics, makeup effects, puppet making, painting, and fabrication.

Collaborators edit

Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film:

Academy Awards edit

Emmy Awards edit

Filmography edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Stan Winston Biography (1946?-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Cohen, David S. (2008). "Effects master Stan Winston dies. Work included Jurassic Park, Terminator". Variety. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved June 16, 2008. [dead link]
  3. ^ a b Crabtree, Sheigh (June 16, 2008). "Stan Winston, dead at 62; Oscar-winning visual effects artist suffered from multiple myeloma". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
  4. ^ a b c Stan Winston Studio (2008). "Press Release". Los Angeles Times. June 16, 2008. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
  5. ^ "SFScopeSpecial effects artist Stan Winston dies | SFScope". June 16, 2008.
  6. ^ Turek, Ryan (June 20, 2008). "Memories of a Monster Maker". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  7. ^ "Center For Roboto Research And Preservation" January 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
  8. ^ "Bring on the Gore: Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror!". BloodyDisgusting. April 28, 2016.
  9. ^ Biodrowski, Steve (June 2001). "Stan Winston's Creature Features". Cinefantastique. Retrieved June 18, 2008.
  10. ^ "Two-part podcast of the presentation given by Stan Winston as part of The Lemelson Center's "Inventing Ourselves" symposium". Invention.smithsonian.org. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
  11. ^ . ComingSoon.net. April 14, 2003. Archived from the original on April 22, 2003.
  12. ^ Davidson, Paul (April 11, 2005). "Status of Jurassic Park IV". IGN. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  13. ^ McG (May 22, 2008). . Official blog. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  14. ^ IGN FilmForce (September 8, 2005). . IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on December 27, 2005. Retrieved June 18, 2008.
  15. ^ Boucher, Geoff (October 6, 2008). . Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013.
  16. ^ "Our History". Stan Winston School of Character Arts. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  17. ^ a b Smith, Gary A. (2017). Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between. McFarland & Company. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-7864-9779-9.

External links edit

  • Stan Winston at IMDb
  • "Stan Winston". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
  • Stan Winston School

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Stanley Winston 1 April 7 1946 June 15 2008 was an American television and film special make up effects artist best known for his work in the Terminator series the first three Jurassic Park films Aliens The Thing the first two Predator films Inspector Gadget Iron Man and Edward Scissorhands 2 3 4 He won four Academy Awards for his work Stan WinstonWinston at the 1997 Cannes Film FestivalBornStanley Winston 1946 04 07 April 7 1946Richmond Virginia U S DiedJune 15 2008 2008 06 15 aged 62 Malibu California U S Resting placeHillside Memorial Park CemeteryOccupationSpecial make up effects creatorYears active1972 2008SpouseKaren Winston m 1969 wbr Children2 including Matt Winston Winston a frequent collaborator with directors James Cameron Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton owned several effects studios including Stan Winston Digital The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup puppets and practical effects but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1970s 2 2 1980s 2 3 1990s 2 4 2000s 3 Death 4 Stan Winston School 5 Collaborators 6 Academy Awards 7 Emmy Awards 8 Filmography 9 References 10 External linksEarly life editWinston was born on April 7 1946 in Richmond Virginia 5 to a Jewish family 6 where he graduated from Washington Lee High School in 1964 He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968 4 Career editIn 1969 after attending California State University Long Beach Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor Struggling to find an acting job he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios 4 1970s edit In 1972 Winston established his own company Stan Winston Studio and in 1973 he won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the 1972 telefilm Gargoyles Over the next seven years Winston continued to receive Emmy Award nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974 s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special In 1978 Winston was the Special Make up Designer for The Wiz 1980s edit In 1982 Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps by which time he had set up his own studio However it was his ground breaking work with Rob Bottin on his update of the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year that brought him to prominence in Hollywood He also worked on supervised vision work on The Entity Between then he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending In 1983 Winston designed the Mr Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx 7 In 1983 he also worked on the short lived television series Manimal for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron s The Terminator premiered The movie was a surprise hit and Winston s work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron In fact Winston won his first Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron s next movie Aliens 8 Over the next few years Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films including Tim Burton s Edward Scissorhands John McTiernan s Predator Alien Nation The Monster Squad and Predator 2 In 1988 Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival His next directing project was the child friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm 1990 starring Anthony Michael Hall 1990s edit James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990 this time for Terminator 2 Judgment Day T2 premiered in the summer of 1991 and Winston s work on this box office hit won him two more Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects In 1992 he was nominated for another Tim Burton film the superhero sequel Batman Returns where he designed the makeup prosthetics for Danny DeVito s Penguin Additionally his studio was commissioned to create robotic penguin puppets that were used throughout the film Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton s Jurassic Park to the cinema screen In 1993 the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects In 1993 Winston Cameron and ex ILM General Manager Scott Ross co founded Digital Domain one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world In 1998 after the box office success of Titanic Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics Some of Winston s notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3D Battle Across Time James Cameron s 3 D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme parks One of Winston s most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg s A I Artificial Intelligence which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects In 1996 Winston directed and co produced the longest music video of all time Ghosts which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King The long form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects and promoted music from Blood on the Dance Floor HIStory in the Mix which went on to become the biggest selling remix album of all time 13 million 2000s edit In 2001 Winston together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z Arkoff s son Lou Arkoff produced a series of made for cable films for Cinemax and HBO The five films referred to as Creature Features were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s i e Earth vs the Spider 1958 How to Make a Monster 1958 Day the World Ended 1955 The She Creature 1956 and Teenage Caveman 1958 but had completely different plots 9 In 2002 Winston helped to launch a new comic line Stan Winston s Realm Of The Claw Mutant Earth which was a flip book and ran for 4 issues Stan Winston s Trakk Monster Hunter came out in 2003 and ran for 2 issues These were published by Image Comics In 2003 Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation The presentation took place on November 15 2003 at the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History 10 Winston also worked on Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines By April 2003 Winston was working on his next project Jurassic Park IV 11 By April 2005 Winston said the film was on hold 12 The film would eventually be released in 2015 titled Jurassic World At the time of his death Winston was working on the fourth Terminator film Terminator Salvation 13 as well as frequent collaborator James Cameron s film Avatar Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering 14 and its sequel The Suffering Ties That Bind Death edit nbsp Johannes Grenzfurthner and Matt Winston talk about Stan Winston and special effects in the 2016 documentary Traceroute Stan Winston died on June 15 2008 in Malibu California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma 2 A spokeswoman reported that he died peacefully at home surrounded by family 3 Winston was with his wife and two children actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci Fi Movie for Iron Man Terminator Salvation is dedicated to both Winston and Joseph R Kubicek Sr with the dedication appearing at both the beginning and end of the film After his death his four supervisors Shane Mahan John Rosengrant Alan Scott Lindsay Macgowan founded and built their own studio Legacy Effects named to honor his memory 15 Stan Winston School editIn 2009 the year after his passing the Winston family founded the Stan Winston School of Character Arts to preserve Stan s legacy by inspiring and fostering creativity in a new generation of character creators 16 The school which is 100 online currently offers hundreds of in depth on demand educational video courses by Hollywood s leading special effects artists and creators Topics covered include design sculpture mold making lab work animatronics makeup effects puppet making painting and fabrication Collaborators editWinston worked with the following directors on more than one film Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands Batman Returns Big Fish James Cameron The Terminator Aliens Terminator 2 Judgment Day Avatar John Carpenter The Thing Starman Dennis Dugan The Benchwarmers You Don t Mess with the Zohan Jon Favreau Zathura A Space Adventure Iron Man Stephen Hopkins Predator 2 The Ghost and the Darkness Peter Hyams The Relic End of Days Frank Marshall Congo Eight Below Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park The Lost World Jurassic Park A I Artificial Intelligence War of the Worlds Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Robert Zemeckis Amazing Stories episode Go to the Head of the Class What Lies Beneath Academy Awards edit1982 Oscar Nomination for Best Makeup Heartbeeps 1987 Won Oscar for Best Visual Effects Aliens 1988 Oscar Nomination for Best Visual Effects Predator 1991 Oscar Nomination for Best Makeup Edward Scissorhands 1992 Won 2 Oscars Best Visual Effects amp Best Makeup Terminator 2 Judgment Day 1993 Oscar Nomination for Best Makeup Batman Returns 1994 Won Oscar for Best Visual Effects Jurassic Park 1998 Oscar Nomination for Best Visual Effects The Lost World Jurassic Park 2002 Oscar Nomination for Best Visual Effects A I Artificial IntelligenceEmmy Awards edit1973 Won Emmy for Outstanding Makeup Gargoyles 1974 Won Emmy for Outstanding Makeup The Autobiography of Miss Jane PittmanFilmography editGargoyles 1972 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1974 The Bat People 1974 17 The Man in the Glass Booth 1975 Pinocchio TV 1976 Dr Black Mr Hyde 1976 Dracula s Dog 1977 also known as Zoltan Hound of Dracula 17 The Wiz 1978 The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan 1979 The Exterminator 1980 Heartbeeps 1981 Dead amp Buried 1981 The Entity 1982 Friday the 13th Part III 1982 uncredited The Thing 1982 The Terminator 1984 Starman 1984 Ghoulies 1985 The Vindicator 1986 Invaders from Mars 1986 Aliens 1986 The Monster Squad 1987 Predator 1987 Pumpkinhead 1988 Leviathan 1989 Edward Scissorhands 1990 A Gnome Named Gnorm 1990 Predator 2 1990 Terminator 2 Judgment Day 1991 Batman Returns 1992 Jurassic Park 1993 Interview with the Vampire 1994 Tank Girl 1995 Congo 1995 The Ghost and the Darkness 1996 The Island of Dr Moreau 1996 T2 3D Battle Across Time 1996 Michael Jackson s Ghosts 1996 The Relic 1997 The Lost World Jurassic Park 1997 Mouse Hunt 1997 Small Soldiers 1998 Instinct 1999 Lake Placid 1999 Inspector Gadget 1999 End of Days 1999 Galaxy Quest 1999 What Lies Beneath 2000 Pearl Harbor 2001 A I Artificial Intelligence 2001 Jurassic Park III 2001 The Time Machine 2002 Darkness Falls 2003 Big Fish 2003 Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines 2003 Wrong Turn 2003 Constantine 2005 Zathura A Space Adventure 2005 War of the Worlds 2005 Doom 2005 Eight Below 2006 The Shaggy Dog 2006 The Benchwarmers 2006 Skinwalkers 2006 The Deaths of Ian Stone 2007 Iron Man 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2008 You Don t Mess with the Zohan 2008 Terminator Salvation 2009 G I Joe The Rise of Cobra 2009 Pandorum 2009 Avatar 2009 Shutter Island 2010 Enthiran 2010 References edit Stan Winston Biography 1946 Filmreference com Retrieved July 20 2011 a b Cohen David S 2008 Effects master Stan Winston dies Work included Jurassic Park Terminator Variety Penske Media Corporation Retrieved June 16 2008 dead link a b Crabtree Sheigh June 16 2008 Stan Winston dead at 62 Oscar winning visual effects artist suffered from multiple myeloma Los Angeles Times Retrieved June 16 2008 a b c Stan Winston Studio 2008 Press Release Los Angeles Times June 16 2008 Retrieved June 16 2008 SFScopeSpecial effects artist Stan Winston dies SFScope June 16 2008 Turek Ryan June 20 2008 Memories of a Monster Maker ComingSoon net Retrieved April 1 2019 Center For Roboto Research And Preservation Archived January 24 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved June 16 2008 Bring on the Gore Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror BloodyDisgusting April 28 2016 Biodrowski Steve June 2001 Stan Winston s Creature Features Cinefantastique Retrieved June 18 2008 Two part podcast of the presentation given by Stan Winston as part of The Lemelson Center s Inventing Ourselves symposium Invention smithsonian org Retrieved July 20 2011 Stan Winston Talks Jurassic Park IV ComingSoon net April 14 2003 Archived from the original on April 22 2003 Davidson Paul April 11 2005 Status of Jurassic Park IV IGN Retrieved May 31 2015 McG May 22 2008 Terminator Salvation Blog Official blog Archived from the original on August 28 2008 Retrieved June 4 2008 IGN FilmForce September 8 2005 Games to Film The Suffering Midway action horror title to Hollywood IGN Entertainment Archived from the original on December 27 2005 Retrieved June 18 2008 Boucher Geoff October 6 2008 Stan Winston and the tricky business of Legacy Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on October 5 2013 Our History Stan Winston School of Character Arts Retrieved February 22 2016 a b Smith Gary A 2017 Vampire Films of the 1970s Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between McFarland amp Company p 172 ISBN 978 0 7864 9779 9 External links editStan Winston Studio Stan Winston at IMDb Stan Winston Find a Grave Retrieved June 12 2013 Stan Winston School Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Stan Winston amp 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