Greatest Film Make-up Artists (& Hairstylists)

[Tim]

Criteria: These make-up artists were ranked according to their influence on use of make-up in films, the acclaim they received for their make-up artistry, and, to a lesser degree, the greatness (influence, acclaim, popularity) of the films they provided make-up for.

Disclaimer: This list is strongly influenced by the Western canon of films. This means that in the broader scope of a global cinema certain regions may be underrepresented, among them Russia, India, China, Africa and Latin America

1. Jack Pierce (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man)
2. Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London, Harry and the Hendersons, Men in Black)
3. Lon Chaney (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unknown)
4. Dick Smith (Little Big Man, The Godfather, Amadeus)
5. John Chambers (Around the World in Eighty Days, Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
6. Stan Winston (The Thing, The Terminator, Aliens)
7. George Westmore (The Sheik, Robin Hood, The Black Pirate)
8. Greg Cannom (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
9. Ve Neill (Beetlejuice, Mrs. Doubtfire, Ed Wood)
10. Jack Dawn (Good Earth, The Wizard of Oz, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
11. Perc Westmore (The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Casablanca)
12. William J. Tuttle (Singin' in the Rain, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Young Frankenstein)
13. Stuart Freeborn (Oliver Twist, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars)
14. Tom Savini (Martin, Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th)
15. Rob Bottin (The Howling, The Thing, Total Recall)
16. Mark Coulier (The Iron Lady, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Poor Things)
17. Bud Westmore (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Man of a Thousand Faces, To Kill a Mockingbird)
18. Christopher Tucker (The Elephant Man, Quest for Fire, The Company of Wolves)
19. Michèle Burke (Quest for Fire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Minority Report)
20. Kazu Hiro (Planet of the Apes, Darkest Hour, Bombshell)
21. Wally Westmore (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Island of Lost Souls, Sullivan's Travels)
22. Richard Taylor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, King Kong, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
23. Monte Westmore (Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca)
24. Fred Phillips (Around the World in Eighty Days, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
25. Michael Westmore (Rocky, Raging Bull, Mask)
26. Matthew W. Mungle (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Schindler's List, Hillbilly Elegy)
27. Howard Berger & Greg Nicotero (Sin City, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Hitchcock)
28. Nick Dudman (Legend, The Mummy, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2)
29. Roy Ashton (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mummy, The Curse of the Werewolf)
30. Tommie Manderson (Alien, The Killing Fields, Willow)
31. David Martí & Montse Ribé (Pan's Labyrinth, The Skin I Live In, Society of the Snow)
32. Giannetto De Rossi (Zombi 2, Dune, The Last Emperor)
33. Otello Fava (La dolce vita, 8½, Black Sabbath)
34. Joel Harlow (Star Track, The Lone Ranger, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
35. Paul Engelen (The Man with the Golden Gun, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace)
36. Edouard F. Henriques (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Cell, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
37. David LeRoy Anderson (The Nutty Professor, Men in Black, Cinderella Man)
38. Monty Westmore (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Towering Inferno, Hook)
39. Robert J. Schiffer (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Tron, Splash)
40. Phil Leakey (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Revenge of Frankenstein)
41. Lisa Westcott (Mrs Brown, Shakespeare in Love, Les Misérables)
42. Amanda Knight (The Fifth Element, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Star Wars: Rogue One)
43. Bill Corso (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Click, Foxcatcher)
44. Love Larson & Eva von Bahr (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, A Man Called Ove, Dune)
45. Manlio Rocchetti (Driving Miss Daisy, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island)
46. Fabrizio Sforza (The Last Emperor, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The English Patient)
47. Tom Smith (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gandhi, Return of the Jedi)
48. Lois Burwell (Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln)
49. John Caglione Jr. (Zelig, Dick Tracy, The Dark Knight)
50. Conor O'Sullivan (Saving Private Ryan, The Hours, The Dark Knight)
51. Daniel C. Striepeke (Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away)
52. Tami Lane (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
53. Robert Kurtzman (From Dusk till Dawn, Vampires, Doctor Sleep)
54. Nadia Stacey (The Favourite, Cruella, Poor Things)
55. Peter Robb-King (Legend, Aliens, The Last of the Mohicans)
56. Kevin Haney (Driving Miss Daisy, The Addams Family, Addams Family Values)
57. Mel Berns (The Gay Divorcee, Bringing Up Baby, Citizen Kane)
58. Dave Elsey (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Wolfman, X-Men: First Class)
59. Christina Smith (Hook, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park)
60. Harry Frampton (Straw Dogs, Frenzy, The Pink Panther Strikes Again)
61. Thomas R. Burman (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Scrooged)
62. Didier Lavergne (Bitter Moon, Brotherhood of the Wolf, La Vie en rose)
63. Donald Mowat (Nocturnal Animals, Blade Runner 2049, Dune)
64. Zoltan Elek (Mask, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Fight Club)
65. Peter Frampton (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Sid and Nancy, Braveheart)
66. Chris Walas (Gremlins, Enemy Mine, The Fly)
67. Adrien Morot (Barney's Version, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Whale)
68. Judy Chin (Frida, Black Swan, The Whale)
69. Vittorio Sodano (Apocalypto, Il divo, A Bigger Splash)
70. Carl Fullerton (The Hunger, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia)
71. Jean Ann Black (Se7en, Big Fish, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
72. David White (Guardians of the Galaxy, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Nosferatu)
73. Susan A. Cabral (Blade Runner, Dead Poets Society, Erin Brockovich)
74. Göran Lundström (Border, House of Gucci, The Batman)
75. Arjen Tuiten (Black Book, Wonder, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil)
76. Bob Laden (Prizzi's Honor, Happy New Year, Roommates)
77. Steve LaPorte (The Lost Boys, Beetlejuice, Van Helsing)
78. Robert Short (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Beetlejuice)
79. Stephan Dupuis (The Fly, RoboCop, Eastern Promises)
80. Mike Marino (Coming 2 America, The Batman, A Different Man)
81. Leonard Engelman (Ghostbusters, Moonstruck, The Princess Diaries)
82. Ken Diaz (Dad, My Family, Mi Familia, Black Panther)
83. Morag Ross (Sense and Sensibility, The Aviator, Hugo)
84. Ken Chase (Escape from New York, The Color Purple, Back to the Future Part II)
85. Kate Biscoe (Memoirs of a Geisha, Behind the Candelabra, Vice)
86. Anna Dryhurst (Excaliburn, 1984, Hudson Hawk)
87. Jean-Pierre Eychenne (Jean de Florette, Cyrano de Bergerac, Bandidas)
88. Toni G (How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Planet of the Apes, Maleficent)
89. Jean-Luc Russier (Dangerous Liaisons, 101 Dalmatians, Marie Antoinette)
90. Julie Hewett (The Artist, Hitchcock, Hail, Caesar!)
91. Katherine James (The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Men in Black)
92. Maurizio Silvi (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby, The Great Beauty)
93. Ronnie Specter (Batman Returns, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 8 Mile)
94. Josh Weston (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Snow White and the Huntsman, Poor Things)
95. Daniel Phillips (The Queen, Victoria & Abdul, No Time to Die)
96. Marvin G. Westmore (Blade Runner, Space Rangers, Escape from L.A.)
97. Brad Wilder (Blade Runner, Star Trek: Insurrection, Divergent)
98. Todd McIntosh (City Slickers, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Memoirs of a Geisha)
99. Bruce Hutchinson (Night Shift, Splash, Pleasantville)
100. Screaming Mad George (Bride of Re-Animator, Freaked, Tales from the Hood)

Greatest Film Hairstylists
1. Sydney Guilaroff (Singin' in the Rain, North by Northwest, The Time Machine)
2. Nelly Manley (Vertigo, Witness for the Prosecution, Funny Face)
3. Peter Swords King (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Into the Woods)
4. Jenny Shircore (Elizabeth, The Young Victoria, Mary Queen of Scots)
5. Yolanda Toussieng (Mrs. Doubtfire, Ed Wood, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
6. Yoshiko Matsumoto (The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Ran)
7. Alexandre de Paris (Vivre sa vie, Cleopatra, Marnie)
8. Paul LeBlanc (Amadeus, Requiem for a Dream, Big Fish)
9. Jan Archibald (The Wings of the Dove, La Vie en Rose, Hugo)
10. Aldo Signoretti (Moulin Rouge!, Apocalypto, Il divo)
11. Peter Owen (Sleepy Hollow, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
12. Ivana Primorac (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Atonement, Barbie)
13. Naomi Donne (1917, Cruella, The Batman)
14. Martin Samuel (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Hitchcock)
15. Camille Friend (Dreamgirls, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Black Panther)

[ManPerson]

I know little about this topic, but I think Freeborn could be a bit higher.

[Tim]

Who do you see him beating?

[ManPerson]

I was thinking he deserved a lot of credit for the apes in 2001, though I guess that was already pretty well reflected in his placement.

[Dubrow555]

Fun fact - I met someone a few years ago who had his makeup done by Greg Cannom for a play (before he got famous)

[Tim]

Damn, nice.

[Tim]

I was thinking he deserved a lot of credit for the apes in 2001, though I guess that was already pretty well reflected in his placement.

My thinking was that Freeborn's most enduring legacy might as well be the creation of Yoda which is, broad as the term "make-up artist" may be, somewhat peripheral to what the list is about, changing the looks of actors for sake of their roles.

[Sherick]

I think that sits somewhere in the Vinn diagram of make-up, costume, and special effects.