Stanley Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film

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creator, best known for his work in the ''Terminator'' series, the first three '' Jurassic Park'' films, ''

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'', '' The Thing'', the first two ''

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'' films, '' Inspector Gadget'', ''

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for his work. Winston, a frequent collaborator with directors

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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

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

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family, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the

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, from which he graduated in 1968.

Career

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.

1970s

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 ''

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s''. 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

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

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facemask for the American rock group Styx. 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

'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

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in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, ''

''. 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 ''

'', ''

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'', 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

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1990s

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

for Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects. In 1992, he was nominated for another Tim Burton film, the

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sequel '' Batman Returns'', where he designed the makeup prosthetics for Danny DeVito's

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. 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

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enlisted his help to bring

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'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

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co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of ''

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'', 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

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. 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

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. 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

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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

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 ''

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'', 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), ''

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'' (1956), and '' Teenage Caveman'' (1958) — but had completely different plots. 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

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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. Winston also worked on '' Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines''. By April 2003, Winston was working on his next project, ''Jurassic Park IV''. By April 2005, Winston said the film was on hold. The film would eventually be released in 2015 titled ''

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''. At the time of his death, Winston was working on the fourth ''Terminator'' film, ''

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'', as well as frequent collaborator James Cameron's film ''

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''. Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game '' The Suffering'' and its sequel, '' The Suffering: Ties That Bind''.

Death

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Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California, after suffering for seven years from

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. A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family." 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 ''

''. ''

'' 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.

Stan Winston School

In addition, 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."

Collaborators

Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film: * Tim Burton ('' Edward Scissorhands'', '' Batman Returns'', '' Big Fish'') *

('' The Terminator'', ''

'', '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', ''

'') * John Carpenter ('' The Thing'', '' Starman'') * Dennis Dugan ('' The Benchwarmers'', '' You Don't Mess with the Zohan'') * Jon Favreau ('' Zathura: A Space Adventure'', ''

'') * Stephen Hopkins ('' Predator 2'', '' The Ghost and the Darkness'') * Peter Hyams ('' The Relic'', '' End of Days'') * Frank Marshall ('' Congo'', '' Eight Below'') *

('' 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", ''

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'')

Academy Awards

* 1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: '' Heartbeeps'' * 1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: ''

'' * 1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: ''

'' * 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''

Filmography

* '' Gargoyles'' (1972) * '' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1974) * '' The Man in the Glass Booth'' (1975) * '' Pinocchio'' (TV, 1976) * '' Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde'' (1976) * '' The Wiz'' (1978) * '' The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan'' (1979) * '' The Exterminator'' (1980) * '' Heartbeeps'' (Oscar Nomination) (1981) * ''

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'' (1981) * '' The Entity '' (1982) * '' Friday the 13th Part III'' (1982) (uncredited) * '' The Thing'' (1982) * '' The Terminator'' (1984) * '' Starman'' (1984) * '' Ghoulies'' (1985) * '' Invaders from Mars'' (1986) * ''

'' (Oscar Winner) (1986) * ''

'' (1987) * ''

'' (Oscar Nomination) (1987) * '' Pumpkinhead'' (1988) * '' Leviathan'' (1989) * '' Edward Scissorhands'' (Oscar Nomination) (1990) * '' A Gnome Named Gnorm'' (1990) * '' Predator 2'' (1990) * '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (Oscar Winner) (1991) * '' Batman Returns'' (Oscar Nomination) (1992) * '' Jurassic Park'' (Oscar Winner) (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'' (Oscar Nomination) (1997) * ''

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'' (1997) * '' Small Soldiers'' (1998) * '' Instinct'' (1999) * '' Lake Placid'' (1999) * '' Inspector Gadget'' (1999) * '' End of Days'' (1999) * ''

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'' (1999) * ''

'' (2000) * ''

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'' (2001) * ''

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'' (Oscar Nomination) (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) * ''

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'' (2005) * '' Eight Below'' (2006) * '' The Shaggy Dog'' (2006) * '' The Benchwarmers'' (2006) * '' Skinwalkers'' (2006) * '' The Deaths of Ian Stone'' (2007) * ''

'' (2008) * '' Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' (2008) * '' You Don't Mess with the Zohan'' (2008) * ''

'' (2009) * '' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' (2009) * '' Pandorum'' (2009) * ''

'' (2009) * '' Shutter Island'' (2010) * '' Enthiran'' (2010)

References

External links

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