Stan Winston Tribute
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- Published: 19 Jun 2008
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See some of his genius work. A big loss for Hollywood.
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Stan Winston Props: Profiles in History 'Hollywood Auction 40' Preview
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- Duration: 7:22
- Published: 30 May 2010
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- Author: jasondebord
Part of a video preview of items in the upcoming Profiles in History 'Hollywood Auction 40' event in June 2010, Jason DeBord of The Original Prop Blog interviews the auction house owner and CEO, Joe Maddalena. This segment features a discussion about the Edward Scissorhands prop, Stan Winston Studios, the many auctions being held this Summer, and the idea of investing in original movie props and costumes.
Stan Winston - Tribute To A Genius
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- Published: 19 Jun 2008
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- Author: MovieGodsLive
This is my special dedication to Stan Winston and the work he has done over the past many decades to bring our greatest dreams to life. I spent many hours working on this but it doesn't matter because he deserves no less. This video is also featured at JoBlo.com as an exclusive dedication. Enjoy!
Terminator, Jurassic Park, Spawn & more original Stan Winston movie props.
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- Duration: 1:48
- Published: 21 Sep 2009
- Uploaded: 03 Aug 2011
- Author: MoviePropCollector
Video taken at auction house, Profiles in History, Monday, September 14th 2009. Edward Scissorhands costume and prop hands are for the MOMA retrospective of Tim Burton's work and not in this auction. It can be seen from November 22, 2009 until April 26, 2010. The video software processed this a bit off, so please forgive the quality. Enjoy.
Stan Winston Interview Part 1 of 3 (1994) - Aliens - Terminator 2 - Jurassic Park
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- Published: 11 Apr 2011
- Uploaded: 20 Jul 2011
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Stan Winston Interview Part 1 of 3 - Aliens - Terminator 2 - Jurassic Park
Stan Winston hosts "Rodan" on AMC EFX
The late, great Stan Winston used to host a show on AMC called CINEMA SECRETS, which featured Hollywood's special effects artists explaining their craft. After the show, Stan would also host a classic effects film. Here he is hosting Toho's RODAN (1956) from around 2000 or so. Sitting next to Stan is the unused Godzilla model he created for the 1998 American film.
Diary of the Deadpit - Remembering Stan Winston
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stan Winston, the Oscar-winning special-effects maestro responsible for bringing the dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park" and other iconic movie creatures to life, has died. He was 62. Winston died at his home in Malibu surrounded by family on Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, according to a representative from Stan Winston Studio. Working with such directors as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Tim Burton in a career spanning four decades, Winston created some of the most memorable visual effects in cinematic history. He helped bring the dinosaurs from "Jurassic Park," the extraterrestrials from "Aliens, the robots from "Terminator" and even "Edward Scissorhands" to the big screen, and was a pioneer in merging real-world effects with computer imaging. "The entertainment industry has lost a genius, and I lost one of my best friends with the death Sunday night of Stan Winston," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "Stan's work and four Oscars speak for themselves and will live on forever. What will live forever in my heart is the way that Stan loved everyone and treated each of his friends like they were family." Winston won visual effects Oscars for 1986's "Aliens," 1992's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and 1993's "Jurassic Park." He also won a makeup Oscar for 1992's "Batman Returns." Winston was nominated for his work on "Heartbeeps," "Predator," "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman Returns," "The Lost World: Jurassic Park <b>...</b>
Stan Winston Interview Part 2 of 3 (1994) - Predator - Edward Scissorhands - Batman - Jurassic Park
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- Published: 13 Apr 2011
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Stan Winston Interview Part 2 of 3 (1994) - Predator - Edward Scissorhands - Batman
Jim Cameron Honors Stan Winston
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- Published: 07 Sep 2009
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- Author: MalibuFilmSociety
As the Malibu Film Society honors Stan Winston as its very first "Malibu Filmmaker of the Year," guest speaker James Cameron recalls his 25 years of working with Winston -- from "Terminator" through "Avatar."
Stan Winston School Of Character Arts Trailer
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- Published: 21 Mar 2011
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- Author: LegolasManowarMJ
www.stanwinstonschool.com Four decades, four Academy Awards and hundreds of characters, Stan Winston and his legion of artists created film icons that terrify, entertain... and inspire. When the art and technology existed, they mastered it... when it didn't, they invented it. From concept to creation, Stan Winston laid the foundation for the techniques that drive an entire industry. Now, you hold the key to the Master's Workshop. Wherever you are, whatever your current level of ability, the Stan Winston School of Character Arts offers a curriculum of unparalleled depth, covering the entire spectrum of character arts, from practical to digital. Create your own curriculum with: * Hands-on Workshops in association with our World-Renowned Partners. * Streaming Video Tutorials. * DVD Lessons. www.stanwinstonschool.com
SDCC '10 Stan Winston School of Character Arts and Gnomon School
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Rachel Lara talks with Matt Winston, founder of the Stan Winston School of Character Arts (partnered with Gnomon School) and the son of the late, legendary Visual FX, Make-up Artist and film director Stan Winston. For more info, go to StanWinstonSchool.com
Stan Winston Interview Part 3 of 3 (1994) - Predator - Congo - Batman - Jurassic Park
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- Published: 16 Apr 2011
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Stan Winston Interview Part 3 of 3 (1994) - Predator - Congo - Batman - Jurassic Park
Winston Studio Show Reel
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- Published: 07 Sep 2009
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- Author: MalibuFilmSociety
In order to commemorate Stan Winston's selection as "Malibu Filmmaker of the Year" by the Malibu Film Society, Winston Studio created this "show reel" which highlights some of the best work from Stan's amazing career.
Stan Winston on Making of Terminator
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- Published: 22 May 2009
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Stan explaining the creation of the film Terminator.
Stan Winston-His Final Public Apearence
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- Published: 26 Feb 2008
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- Author: maxsterling619
The last known footage of Stan Winston having some fun with the fans. My Zod rest his soul.
RIP Stan Winston Comic Con Iron Man Reveal Robert Jon
RIP Stan Winston...... Thank you for your creations. I am so great full that i had the pleasure of shaking the hand of a true legend. This video was up on my other channel but paramount pictures removed my video and channel so here it is again :)
Stan Winston Studio Christmas Video Part 1
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- Published: 21 Apr 2011
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Unboxing of The PREDATOR MAQUETTE SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES and STAN WINSTON.
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- Published: 15 Aug 2009
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Unboxing of this amazing statue done by SIDESHOW COLLECTIBLES/STAN WINSTON.
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Stan Winston
| Name | Stan Winston |
|---|---|
| Caption | Stan Winston (right) with Michael Jackson during the 50th International Cannes Film Festival. |
| Birth date | April 07, 1946 |
| Birth place | Arlington, Virginia, USA |
| Death date | June 15, 2008 |
| Death place | Malibu, California, USA |
| Occupation | Special effects, makeup artist, film director |
| Spouse | Karen Winston |
| Yearsactive | 1972–2008 |
| Academyawards | Best Effects, Special Visual Effects1986 Aliens1991 1993 Jurassic ParkBest Makeup1991 }} |
Stanley Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American visual effects supervisor, makeup artist, and film director. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, Avatar and Enthiran. He won four 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.
Career
Stan Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968. 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.In 1983 he also worked on a short-lived TV series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.
Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron'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 Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.
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 Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.
In 1989, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. Although the movie was released to limited theatrical release, Pumpkinhead has since become classic of the genre. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.
1990s
James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking . T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.
Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton'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 Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, 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 animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and , James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's , which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.
In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and , which went on to become the biggest selling double-album and remix album of all time (20 million and 11 million).
2000s
In 2001, Winston, together with Lou Arkoff (Sam Arkoff's son) and Colleen Camp, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, 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), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) – but had completely different plots.In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution 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.
In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W.S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me," he stated.
Winston also worked on .
At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation. According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic Park IV. Winston was also signed on to help with the monster effects for The Suffering, an upcoming action-horror film to be based on the Midway video games. Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the game The Suffering and its sequel, , he was also helping with his old friend, film director James Cameron and his upcoming film Avatar.
Stan Winston Studio also took a part in the most expensive Indian/Tamil film ever made, Enthiran, which became a huge success in India and overseas as well.
Death
Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.
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