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MAKE-UP ARTISTS & HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS | 23 L I F E T I M E A C H I E V E M E N T A W A R D M A K E - U P STEVE LaPORTE With over 100 titles to his credit, Academy Award- and Emmy-winning make-up artist Steve LaPorte earned recognition as a top master of special make-up effects and prosthetics. His start in the entertainment business was a bit unusual. LaPorte was accepted at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, where he studied theatrical make-up and prosthetics, paving the way for his future. He was hired for Universal Studio Tour's Land of a ousand Faces and Castle Dracula make-up shows. Soon aer, he produced masks and prosthetics for Under the Rainbow, Star Trek 3: e Search for Spock, Buckaroo Banzai, e Howling and numerous other films. In 1984, Steve began working at NBC Studios running their make-up lab and joined Local 706. He worked on e Color Purple creating the aging make-ups for Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover. As was the practice then, he was oen uncredited, but Steve was busy behind the scenes creating prosthetics and make-up effects for Who Framed Roger Rabbit and dozens of other films. LaPorte joined Ve Neill and Robert Short to win an Oscar in 1989 for Outstanding Make-up on Beetlejuice. He joined Jeff Dawn on Terminator 2 & 3 applying the Oscar-winning, groundbreaking make-up/digital FX artistry on Arnold Schwarzenegger. His skills and abilities have allowed him to head Lost, shot entirely in Hawaii, using his own lab to sculpt, mold and fabricate all the make-up effects on site for the six- season series. He has created the same make-up effects for numerous additional TV series, including Intelligence, Bosch, Longmire, and Code Black. LaPorte has won an Oscar and a Saturn Award for Beetlejuice, a Primetime Emmy for e X-Files, the MUAHS Guild Award for Breaking Bad, and the Oklahoma Film Icon Award. LaPorte also developed and markets the "Port-a-Case" set bag, and the character cream make-up palettes known as the "Facemaker Series." As a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Steve is a diligent advocate for make-up artists. Over the years, he has conducted classes for Local 706 members in character and clown make-up, make- up effects, and the art of facial hair. L-R: Steve LaPorte applying stage blood to Brooke McCarter in The Lost Boys; Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice; with Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad; applying alien make-up.