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2002 Winner Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award. Best Special Makeup Effects - Feature; Planet of the Apes
- December 8, 1950
A record-holding winner of seven Academy Awards for Makeup out of eleven nominations, Rick Baker is a lifelong “monster kid” who won the first competitive Oscar awarded in that category for his innovative work on An American Werewolf in London (1981), one of several collaborations with director John Landis. His apprenticeship under one of ...
Baker has won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, beginning when he won the inaugural award for the 1981 horror comedy film An American Werewolf in London.
Rick Baker’s prolific over forty-year career in special effects has garnered him seven Academy Awards® and eleven nominations. Baker was the first to win the category of “Makeup” when it first premiered at the Academy Awards®, in 1982 for the film “An American Werewolf in London” (1981).
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In addition to the twelve films for which he has received an Oscar nomination, Baker has also worked on such Academy-recognized movies as Enchanted, Click, Gorillas in the Mist , and the 1976 version of King Kong, sometimes uncredited. Wins. 54th Academy Awards, 1981. Best Makeup — An American Werewolf in London. 60th Academy Awards, 1987.
In 1981, he was the very first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Make-Up for An American Werewolf in London (1981) when the category was first introduced.
Baker won the Academy Award for Best Makeup a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, beginning when he won the inaugural award for the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London. As a teen, Baker began creating artificial body parts in his own kitchen.
