Richard A. "Rick" Baker (born December 8, 1950)
is an American six-time Academy Award-winning special makeup effects artist (wow! )
known for his realistic creature effects.
As a teen, Baker began creating artificial body parts in his own kitchen. He also appeared briefly in the "lost" classic fan production "The Night Turkey" a one hour B&W video parody of "The Night Stalker" (winner of the Best Short Film award at an early San Diego Comic-Con) directed by William Malone (who went on to direct feature films like the science fiction thriller Creature) and included in its cast Bill Mills (currently a voice actor, independent audio producer and Director of Audio Productions for REB AudioBooks) and Robert Short (a fellow special makeup artist who also went on to win an Academy Award for his work in Beetlejuice). Baker's first professional job was as an assistant to Dick Smith on the film The Exorcist.[2] He received the inaugural Academy Award for Makeup for his work on An American Werewolf in London.[3] He also created the "werecat" creature Michael Jacksontransforms into in the music video Thriller. Subsequently, Baker has been nominated nine more times with five additional Oscars, both records in his field.[4] Baker claims that his work on Harry and the Hendersons is one of his proudest achievements.[5] On 3 October 2009 he received the Jack Pierce – Lifetime Achievement Award title of the Chiller-Eyegore Awards.[6] Baker created also the special makeup effects for the 2010 film The Wolfman.[7]
Baker also contributes commentaries to the web series Trailers From Hell[8] for trailers about horror and science fiction films.
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His works speaks for them selves! He has done so much!
I hope one day i am going to get Oscar award Too !! haa haa haa :)
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