Rick Baker

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1950 age 0

   Born

2. 1976 age 26

   CreditKing Kong

3. 1988 age 38

   CreditGorillas in the Mistproducer

4. 1990 age 40

   CreditGremlins 2: The New Batchproducer

5. 1998 age 48

   CreditThe Prince of Egyptproduction designer

6. 2000 age 50

   CreditDr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

7. 2001 age 51

   CreditPlanet of the Apes

8. 2002 age 52

   CreditMen in Black II

9. 2005 age 55

   CreditKing Kong

10. 2010 age 60

    CreditThe Wolfman

• DEDanny Elfman3 titles
• SSSteven Spielberg2 titles
• JHJeremy Howard2 titles
• AHAnthony Hopkins2 titles
• DRDeep Roy2 titles
• MKMartin Klebba2 titles
• EPEvan Parke2 titles
• KGKevin Grevioux2 titles
• HZHans Zimmer1 title
• IGIain Glen1 title

• It’s not just how they feel about it, but what it feels like to wear. It’s not a comfortable process to go through, on a daily basis, and actors will often complain about how I torture them and stuff. I don’t want to torture them - though in some cases I do [laughs] - but I also want to know if they’re just being a baby or if they’re being realistic about it. So I’ll try it on to see which is the most uncomfortable, or what might become annoying after a number of days. So at least I know what it’s like on the other side, so I can sympathize with them, or tell them they’re full of crap, or whatever. Because I’ve worn it, and I know it’s not that bad.

  Rick Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I do quite like hairy things. That probably came out of my growing up in front of the television as a kid in the 50s. I saw a lot of the classic Universal films, and was really attracted to the Wolf Man - I thought that was such a cool idea. And, you know, Mr Hyde. So many things I like had hair on. So I started making hairy things and never stopped, you know?

  Rick Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When you have a good actor, in good makeup, and he's been sitting in the makeup chair looking at himself in the mirror, seeing himself become something else, and then he walks onto a set and he knows where he is, he knows what he looks like, he gives a performance that he's never going to give on a motion-capture stage.

  Rick Baker, CC BY-SA 4.0