RIP: Stan Winston
Stan Winston died of cancer on 16 June, aged sixty-two.
In honor of his significant contributions to prosthetic makeup artistry Make-up Artist magazine, in conjunction with the Stan Winston Studios, will host a tribute at IMATS on Saturday, 21 June. As Michael Key said: ‘He’s left a sizable void in the industry. There’s not a prosthetics makeup artist out there who hasn’t been influenced by Stan Winston.’
His influence on special effects is attested by a shelf full of Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs. But his impact extended way beyond special effects; he enabled filmmakers to bring new, different and stranger visions to our screens. As James Cameron said: ‘We’ve lost a great artist, a man who made a contribution to the cinema of the fantastic that will resound for a long long time.’
I can only commend the tribute at AICN which contains personal and artistic tributes from Rick Baker, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff, Joe Dante, Richard Taylor, James Cameron and other effects artists and filmmakers.
