MONSTERS AND MEN:

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF

STAN WINSTON
By Sam Souther

stanwinstonschool.com/blog

BREIF SUMMARY: WHO WAS STAN?

Born April 7, 1946 in Arlington, VA

Special Effects Artist

Managed all parts of his special effects (SFX) workshop

Was mostly a make-up artist himself

Died June 15, 2008

Example movies: Iron Man, Avatar, Pearl Harbor, Batman
Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Aliens, Friday the 13th (and the
sequels), Jurassic Park (and the sequels), The Terminator (and
the sequels), and so much more

Fan of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror movies.

Was shooting monster films since he was thirteen.
Majored in fine arts at University of Virginia.

Minored in drama- originally tried to be an actor

www.wikipedia.org

STAN WINSTONS EARLY LIFE

Walt Disney Studios make-up department

Applied for an apprenticeship with Robert Schiffer

One of two out of 200 people chosen for the job

Worked on the make-up in the 1972 film Gargoyles.

Won an Emmy for his work.

STARTING CAREER
http://waltdisneystudios.com

Make up artist behind film The Autobiography of Miss Jane

Pittman

Used make up to make a teenaged actor appear over one

hundred.

Won an Emmy here

Worked on horror and fantasy movies in the 70s.

Included The Wizard of Oz based movie The Wiz.

Worked to create the Wookiees in Star Wars Holiday Special.

EARLY WORKS
http://ernestgainescenter.blogspot.com/2014/09/facts-about-film-version-of.html

Started when James Cameron hired Stan for the film The Terminator

Workload was too much for Stan Winston alone, so he formed a team to help him.

There were many different models of the Terminator made as the cyborg got more
of its skin taken off (The sequel T2 featured four different full robotic models).

First works after Terminator were of alien films, including the action film
Aliens and Predator.

Famous for work in Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Jurassic Park. Built fullsized Tyrannosaurus Rex, Raptor, and Triceratops robots for the Jurassic Park
Film.

Created multiple other films between 1993 (after Jurassic Park) and 2005.

Multiple Mediums used.

STAN WINSTON STUDIOS

http://www.fxguide.com/

Started to show signs of illness in 2001, giving his team most

of the responsibilities for the movie A.I. and Jurassic Park 3.
He started to produce more movies from then to 2008.
His sickness turned out to be Myeloma, a cancer in the plasma
cells.
Died in Malibu, CA, aged 62
The entertainment industry has lost a genius- Arnold
Schwarzenegger

DEATH
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Two Emmys for make-up work:

Gargoyles

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Four Oscars and seven Oscar nominations

Aliens- Best Visual Effects

Terminator 2: Judgement Day- Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup

Jurassic Park- Best Visual effects.

AWARDS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Winston

Art (Particularly in his large blockbusters) well received

amongst many people.
His floor space serves as a three dimensional resume, though
its likely Winston rarely has to sell himself to prospective
producers; they come to him.
Winston wasan icon in the specialized art-science of special
effects

CRITICISM

James Cameron and Steven Steilberg both spoke at Winstons

funeral.
Stan Winston Studios had a name change to Legacy Effects.
His name was featured at the end of Terminator Salvation and
Avatar both start end credits with his company name.
Though his name will probably not be remembered at the end
of the 21st century, his work will.
A documentary about his life, Remembering the Monster Kid :
A Tribute to Stan Winston, was produced.

LEGACY

CITATIONS

Barker, Clive. Men, Makeup, and Monsters. New York: St.

Martin
Press, 1996. Print.

Boucher, Geoff. Stan Winston and the tricky business of

Legacy.
The Los Angeles Times (2008): n. pag. Web. 10
Nov. 2015.

www.imdb.com. IMDb, 2015. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.

Stan Winston. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 18 Oct.

2015.
Web. 18 Oct. 2015.