Stan Winston

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Stanley "Stan" Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special effects designer.

He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, and Edward Scissorhands.

For his work, he has received four Academy Awards. Winston Winston Digital, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, was involved in several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital.

Winston's established areas of expertise were in makeup, puppets, and educational effects, but he'd recently expanded his studio to include digital effects as well.

Early life

Winston was born in Richmond, Virginia, on April 7, 1946, to a Jewish family, 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.

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Career

Winston moved to Hollywood in 1969 after attending California State University in Long Beach. He began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios, struggling to find a performing career.

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

Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps in 1982, when he had built his own studio by that time. However, it was his ground-breaking collaboration with Rob Bottin on his revision of the science fiction horror film The Thing, which came to fame in Hollywood. On The Entity, he also worked on supervised vision work. He contributed some special effects to Friday's 13th Part III, in which he created a slightly different head sculpture of Jason in an uncredited ending.

Winston invented the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock band Styx in 1983.

He appeared on Manimal, a short-lived television series, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.

When James Cameron's The Terminator premiered in 1984, Winston reached a new degree of fame. Winston's involvement in the introduction of the titular metallic killing machine to life resulted in several new projects and further collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston received his first Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next film, Aliens.

Winston and his company earned more accolades for their work on several more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.

Winston made his directorial debut with the horror film Pumpkinhead in 1988 and took home Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. Anthony Michael Hall appeared in A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), his next directing venture.

In 1990, James Cameron recruited Winston and his crew again, this time for Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Winston's work on this box office earned him two more Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects in 1991.

In 1992, he was nominated for another Tim Burton film, Batman Returns, in which he conceived the makeup prosthetics for Danny DeVito's Penguin. In addition, his company was hired to create robotic penguin puppets that were used throughout the film.

As Steven Spielberg hired Winston to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen, he switched his focus from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs. Winston also received another Award for Best Visual Effects in 1993.

Winston, Cameron, and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the world's best digital and visual effects studios. In 1998, after Titanic's popularity in the box office, Cameron and Winston, the company's employees ended their employment with the company and resigned from its board of directors.

Winston and his crew continued to produce effects for many more films and also expanded their work into animatronics. In The Ghost and the Shadow, James Cameron's 3-D sequel to the Universal Studios theme parks, you will find some of Winston's finest animatronics work. Steven Spielberg's A.I. was one of Winston's most exciting animatronics projects. Winston was nominated for Best Visual Effects in another Oscar category.

Winston produced and co-produced Ghosts, based on Michael Jackson and Stephen King's original idea in 1996. The long-form music video featured a variety of never before seen digital effects as well as Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, the Mix's most popular remix album of all time (13 million).

Winston began making a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO in 2001, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's uncle, Lou Arkoff. The five films, which were referred to as Creature Features (1958), How to Make a Monster (1956), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) were both inspired by the titles of AIP monster films from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958).

Winston was a writer who contributed to the introduction of Stan Winston's Realm Of The Claw / Mutant Earth in 2002, a flip book that ran for four issues. Stan Winston's Trakk Monster Hunter came out in 2003 and ran for two issues. Image Comics produced these pictures.

Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and work in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for Invention and Innovation in 2003. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History held the exhibition on November 15, 2003.

Winston also worked on Terminator 3: The Machines Are Rising.

Winston was already working on his next project, Jurassic Park IV, by April 2003. Winston said the film was on hold by April 2005. Jurassic World will be released in 2015 and will be called Jurassic World.

Winston was assisting on Terminator Salvation's fourth Terminator film, as well as frequent collaborator James Cameron's film Avatar, at the time of his death. Winston created the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering and its sequel, Ties That Bind, and its sequel, The Suffering.

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Academy Awards

• 1982: 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 & 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 Intelligence

Emmy Awards

• 1973: Won Emmy for Outstanding Makeup: Gargoyles
• 1974: Won Emmy for Outstanding Makeup: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman