Mike Marino still remembers how he first met legendary makeup artist Rick Baker. “It was at the very first makeup trade show,” he tells Baker, grinning at the memory. Marino thinks it was the late ...

The work won the very first Academy Award for Best Makeup, and forty years later, it remains unmatched. Robin Williams spent ...

"The business is crazy right now. I like to do things right, and they wanted cheap and fast," Baker said in an interview. By Natalie Stone Rick Baker - H 2015 In a radio interview with KPCC, Baker ...

There are few figures in movie history that have become more synonymous with their craft than Rick Baker. He won the inaugural Academy Award for makeup in 1982 for “An American Werewolf in London” — ...

For a legendary monster makeup designer like Rick Baker, it’s no surprise that Halloween is his favorite holiday. “Designing Halloween makeup looks for friends and family is one of my favorite things ...

A four-legged hound from hell. That's the evocative direction that John Landis gave to Rick Baker when he hired the makeup maestro to design the monster who appears in the title of the 1981 horror ...

Rick Baker, winner of the first-ever Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling for 1981's "An American Werewolf in London," is retiring from the film industry and will begin auctioning off his work tomorrow, ...

Although makeup has a long history in cinema (see Lon Chaney, all the Universal Monster films), the Oscar category for Best Makeup was not created until 1981. Prior to its creation, two make-up ...