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THE ARTISAN FALL 2019 • 33 2020 2020 2020 2020 20 20 20 20 20 20 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 Thomas Burman has an award-winning career in motion pic- tures and television for over fi ve decades. He has won seven Emmy Awards, received 31 Emmy nominations, and one Oscar nomination, among many other accolades. Burman hired one of the fi rst two women make-up artists, paving the way for many talented women into the fi eld. He established the title "special make-up effects" which is still used today and discovered new materials (Burman Foam) to improve the work of make-up artists around the globe. His documentary fi lm Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film, honoring the crew that changed make-up history, recently premiered at the New Filmmakers LA Festival. Burman's career began in 1966 when he apprenticed with Ben Nye at 20th Century FOX Studios, later becoming an assistant to John Chambers on Planet of the Apes in 1967. In 1973, Tom and father Ellis Burman joined Chambers, starting the fi rst independent make-up effects studio serving motion pictures and television. The Burmans created groundbreaking make-up effects for Phantom of the Paradise, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Devil's Rain, Food of the Gods and A Man Called Horse 2. Additional fi lm credits include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Demon Seed, The Manitou, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Prophecy, The Island of Dr. Moreau and A Man Called Horse, for which Tom cre- ated the full torso prosthetics. Profi cient in all types of make-up and prosthetics, Burman went on to create memorable television visions, including his work on The Tracey Ullman Show, The Best of Tracey, Tracey Takes On…, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The X-Files, CSI (pilot), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (pilot), Chicago Hope, Grey's Anatomy and Nip/Tuck. Sadly, while working on the three-part PBS series Primal Man, they had the tragedy of losing the entire crew in an airplane crash. A true leader in the fi eld, Burman hired one of the fi rst women make-up artists, Charlene Roberson, to create disguises for the William Shatner TV series Barbary Coast. Thomas Burman, Emmy®-winning make-up artist, and Martin Samuel, Oscar®-nominated fi lm and celebrity hair stylist, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 7th Annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards honoring outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials, and live theater. The black-tie awards gala returns to the NOVO by Microsoft in L.A. Live on Saturday, January 11, 2020. THOMAS BURMAN Lifetime Achievement Award: Make-Up Left: Planet of the Apes. Below: Thomas Burman; David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth; Burman applying make-up to Vanessa Redgrave in Nip/ Tuck.