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Stan Winston

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Stanley"Stan" Winston(April 7, 1946– June 15, 2008) was an Academy Award-winning Americantelevision and film special effects supervisor, makeup artist and director who designed the Predatorcreature, for the 1987film Predator. His initial design has since been adapted, modified and re-envisioned by others (and himself) for the subsequent movies, video games and other media of the Predatorand Alien vs. Predator franchise.

As well as designing the original Predator, Winston's effects studio provided the costume and animatronic effects for Predator, as well as the 1986 film Aliens and the 1990 film Predator 2. Other notable films Winston worked on include The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Batman Returns (1992), Jurassic Park (1993) and Iron Man (2008).

For his work on Aliens, Winston won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (shared with Robert Skotak, John Richard

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Stanley "Stan" Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and spelfilm special make-up effects creator. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man and Edward Scissorhands.He won kvartet Academy Awards for his work.

Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, 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.

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Stan Winston Studios, founded in 1972 by Stan Winston, has worked on notable films such as the Terminator, Predator, and Jurassic Park series, along with Aliens and Avatar.

Early Work[]

The first real job that Stan Winston had worked on was the television-movie Gargoyles (1972), that won Stan Winston his first Emmy award. For the film, Stan Winston had made several one-piece, slip rubbe, masks for bacground gargoyles. Stan Winston went on to be nominated for several more Emmys for his work.

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Stan Winston first attained fame through his work on the James Cameron film, The Terminator (1984). Yet, it was Stan Winstons' work on another James Cameron film, Aliens (1986) that Stan Winston recieved his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects. For the film Aliens, Stan Winston created the alien warrior costumes, as well as the full scale animatronic alien queen. Stan's other projects in this decade included the two Predator films, as well as Edward Scissor