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26 • THE ARTISAN FALL 2018 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lifetime Achievement Award: Hair Styling An award-winning hair stylist, Robert Louis Stevenson, whose career in motion pictures spanned 40 years, continues to serve as a wig designer and consultant on films since his retirement. He is a pioneer to the art and the first black male hair stylist in Local 706. One of the most sought-after hair stylists in films with over 120 credits over his career, he is respected and well known throughout the industry for his creativity, speed and winning personality. Stevenson has won a Primetime Emmy ® for Outstanding Achievement in hair styling for The Jesse Owens Story and was also nominated for The Atlanta Child Murders and The Jacksons: An American Dream. He won a Hollywood Make- Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Award for Lee Daniels' The Butler, and has been included in an elite group of 5,000 well-known and respected African-Americans to be in the History Makers national archives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Known for his work on Lee Daniels' The Butler, Flashdance, Get on Up, Amistad, Waiting to Exhale, Coming to America, What's Love Got to Do with It, The Color Purple and more than 20 years working with Samuel L. Jackson as his personal hair stylist. His film credits with Jackson include Soul Men, Unbreakable, Shaft, Rules of Engagement, The Long Kiss Goodnight, A Time to Kill and The Great White Hype, among others. His television department head credits include Murder, She Wrote; Life Goes On and The Jacksons: An American Dream. He was a hair stylist on Melrose Place. Stevenson has also been stylist to Angela Bassett, Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. Clockwise from left: Samuel L. Jackson in Shaft; Jennifer Beals in Flashdance; Robert Louis Stevenson; Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker in Lee Daniels' The Butler. 2019 M A K E - U P A R T I S T S & H A I R S T Y L I S T S G U I L D A W A R D S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS