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Bill Corso. Makeup Department: Deadpool. Bill Corso is known for Deadpool (2016), Foxcatcher (2014) and A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). He has been married to Odile Corso since 3 October 1999.
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Bill Corso is a makeup artist. He has worked on over 70 films since his start in 1986. Oscars. All three were in the category of Best Makeup. 77th Academy Awards – Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Shared with Valli O'Reilly) (won) 79th Academy Awards – Click (Nomination shared with Kazuhiro Tsuji) (lost to Pan's Labyrinth)
- Meet Bill Corso, The Man Born to Do Makeup
- A Plumber’S Son with A Passion For Characters
- Bill Corso’s Start in Makeup Effects
- Working For Rick Baker, Steve Johnson, and Beyond
- Learning His First Lesson as An Artist on Heat
- Bill Corso’s Creative Partnerships
- When One Door Closes, Another Opens
- Attitude Is (Nearly) Everything in The Filmmaking Industry
- By David Sanger CLICK on the video above to watch the FULL INTERVIEW. Today's Monster Maker Interview features Academy Award winner Bill Corso, an effects artist and creature designer who knew from an early age, poring over magazines like Famous Monsters and Fangoria, that makeup effects were his passion. He dedicated his education to learning ma...
New Jersey-born makeup artist Bill Corso has been altering people’s likenesses since he was seven years old. A childhood fascination with drawing, movies, and monsters led Bill to attend the High School for the Visual Arts in Sarasota, Florida. Bill’s early inspiration came from movies and magazines. “When Star Wars came out,” says Bill, “I was lik...
After moving to Los Angeles in 1985 to attend Joe Blasco’s Makeup School, Bill began to lend his talents to such makeup luminaries as six-time Oscar winner Rick Baker for feature film work, including Gremlins 2, Life, Grich, and others, and three-time Oscar winner Ve Neill forBatman & Robin, Galaxy Quest, and more. Bill concedes, “I don’t remember ...
A single sculpting assignment for Steve Johnson and his company XFX Inc. (Ghostbusters, The Abyss) began an eight-year collaboration, with Bill positioned as art director and head studio make-up artist for projects including the sci-fi film Species. This pairing later resulted in two Emmys for outstanding achievement in make-up for two Stephen King...
At 17 years old, working on his very first film as a professional makeup artist—the late 1980’s Burt Reynolds film Heat — Bill relates a story that’s served him well, “The very first night, I learned my first real lesson as a movie makeup artist…and being prepared for anything…I got to set, and they said, ‘Tonight we’re doing a scene where Burt’s a...
After meeting Jim Carrey on MAN ON THE MOON, Bill began a creative partnership with the actor spanning eight films, including The Majestic, Bruce Almighty, and Fun with Dick and Jane. Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Eventswith Carrey resulted in Bill’s first Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Make-Up. According to Carrey, “Billy ...
“The biggest disappointments that I have had in my career have led to some of the most amazing, successful highlights of my career…quite literally….Getting fired off one job—one of the lowest points of my career and thinking I would never work in this town again—led to me getting hired on another job, which changed my career.” In his despondency ov...
Bill wraps up by saying, “I don’t think there’s anything more important than having a great attitude and a good personality….Some people horror at the term ‘production friendly’ but, you know, it’s their movie, it’s the actor’s face, it’s the director’s movie, I’m there to do the very best work I can, make it look as cool as I can, but give them wh...
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70K Followers, 350 Following, 757 Posts - Bill Corso (@bcorso) on Instagram: "Husband, Father, Makeup Artist, living the dream. Governor Makeup and Hairstylists Branch, Sci-Tech Council, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences"
Mar 4, 2016 · BILL CORSO: Well, yeah. I mean, it was a big deal of concern with the studio and with Tim [Miller] and Ryan [Reynolds] that Deadpool try to be as true to the comic.But that being said, there’s ...
Aug 17, 2016 · August 17, 2016 9:53am. HBO. Coming off a stellar year, with the resurgence of the Star Wars franchise and the stupefying box office draw of Deadpool, Oscar-winning makeup artist Bill Corso has ...
