Stan Winston

The DEATH last week of Academy Award-winning makeup, creature and visual effects artist Stan Winston at 62 hit the industry hard. In his early years, Winston earned five Emmy nominations; he got his first Academy Award nomination in 1981 for "Heartbeeps," and received nine more nominations -- in both makeup and visual effects categories -- over the next 20 years.

Actor Ryan Stiles has listed his Robert Byrd-designed home in Encino at $3.9 million. The two-story, built in 1976, is made for entertaining, with a pool, a spa, park-like grounds and a barbecue area on the nearly 1-acre gated site. Byrd is known for his indoor-outdoor approach to design. The 7,631-square-foot house, built in 1976, features vaulted ceilings, hand-hewn wood flooring, French doors, a formal dining room, a den, an eat-in kitchen, four fireplaces, five bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms.

When Hollywood special effects wizard Stan Winston died from cancer at age 62 on Sunday, the film industry lost one of its most revered alums of old-school craftsmanship. Winston's Oscar-winning achievements in the realm of "practical" effects -- analog artistry such as creature building and otherworldly makeup -- encompassed everything from the killer cyborgs of "Terminator 2" to the monstrous queen of "Aliens" to the full-scale animatronic dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park."

The CREATURE creators at Stan Winston Studio specialize in Hollywood miracles -- they brought dinosaurs to life for "Jurassic Park" and turned metal men into movie history with "Iron Man" and "The Terminator" -- but their next trick will be their toughest. The illustrious special effects shop will try to hold onto its history even as it sheds its late founder's name and abandons his storied workshop. Stan Winston, the four-time Oscar winner, died in June in Malibu at age 62 after a seven-year battle with cancer.

"Pumpkinhead" (1988), directed by Stan Winston, 90 minutes. Rated R. Despite a silly title that probably sent it to an early box office grave, it's a well-executed horror film about a man who calls upon satanic forces to help him avenge his son's death.

Foreign-Language Film "Raise the Red Lantern," Hong Kong Art Direction Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh, "Bugsy" Cinematography Robert Richardson, "JFK" Costume Design Albert Wolsky, "Bugsy" Documentary Feature Allie Light and Irving Saraf, "In the Shadow of the Stars" Documentary Short Debra Chasnoff, "Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment" Film Editing Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia, "JFK" Makeup Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" Original

STAN WINSTON / MAKEUP ARTIST Creating mega-reptiles ("Jurassic Park") and scary monsters ("Aliens") has earned creature-master and makeup artist Stan Winston four Oscars. Winston, 53, worked more with minutiae for the namesake devices of "Inspector Gadget"--though he's got more scary stuff in the recently released "Lake Placid" and the upcoming "End of Days.' He's also inaugurating his own production company.

"Wrong Turn" suffers a fate similar to that of many other horror and supernatural thrillers released in the last decade: It leaves you with the feeling that you're watching an episode of "The X-Files," only Mulder and Scully never show up. In this case, the feeling is especially strong, as the movie closely recalls an episode called "Home," featuring the inbred Peacock brothers.

OVER the last 35 years, Stan Winston has helped create some of the most memorable creatures and effects in film and television history. His work as a makeup artist included designing the prostheses that turned Cicely Tyson into the 110-year-old Miss Jane Pittman. Expanding his range and scope, he moved from elaborate prosthetics to creature suits, miniatures, animatronic puppets and computer-generated images.

Stan Winston, the renowned makeup, creature- and visual-effects wizard whose memorable work on "Aliens," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Jurassic Park" earned him four Academy Awards, has died. He was 62. Winston died of complications from multiple myeloma Sunday at his home in Malibu, said his son, actor Matt Winston. "The entertainment industry has lost a genius and I lost one of my best friends," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, of "Terminator" fame, said in a statement Monday.

The DEATH last week of Academy Award-winning makeup, creature and visual effects artist Stan Winston at 62 hit the industry hard. In his early years, Winston earned five Emmy nominations; he got his first Academy Award nomination in 1981 for "Heartbeeps," and received nine more nominations -- in both makeup and visual effects categories -- over the next 20 years.

When Hollywood special effects wizard Stan Winston died from cancer at age 62 on Sunday, the film industry lost one of its most revered alums of old-school craftsmanship. Winston's Oscar-winning achievements in the realm of "practical" effects -- analog artistry such as creature building and otherworldly makeup -- encompassed everything from the killer cyborgs of "Terminator 2" to the monstrous queen of "Aliens" to the full-scale animatronic dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park."

Stan Winston, the renowned makeup, creature- and visual-effects wizard whose memorable work on "Aliens," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Jurassic Park" earned him four Academy Awards, has died. He was 62. Winston died of complications from multiple myeloma Sunday at his home in Malibu, said his son, actor Matt Winston. "The entertainment industry has lost a genius and I lost one of my best friends," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, of "Terminator" fame, said in a statement Monday.

OVER the last 35 years, Stan Winston has helped create some of the most memorable creatures and effects in film and television history. His work as a makeup artist included designing the prostheses that turned Cicely Tyson into the 110-year-old Miss Jane Pittman. Expanding his range and scope, he moved from elaborate prosthetics to creature suits, miniatures, animatronic puppets and computer-generated images.

Stan Winston, master of makeup and special effects, has made dozens of films, including "Interview With the Vampire," "Edward Scissorhands" and "Wrong Turn," which was just released on DVD. Currently, he is busy working on a movie called "Trick or Trick," which he says, "explores the rules of Halloween." Writer Leslee Komaiko spoke with Winston about the holiday.

"Wrong Turn" suffers a fate similar to that of many other horror and supernatural thrillers released in the last decade: It leaves you with the feeling that you're watching an episode of "The X-Files," only Mulder and Scully never show up. In this case, the feeling is especially strong, as the movie closely recalls an episode called "Home," featuring the inbred Peacock brothers.

Actor Ryan Stiles has listed his Robert Byrd-designed home in Encino at $3.9 million. The two-story, built in 1976, is made for entertaining, with a pool, a spa, park-like grounds and a barbecue area on the nearly 1-acre gated site. Byrd is known for his indoor-outdoor approach to design. The 7,631-square-foot house, built in 1976, features vaulted ceilings, hand-hewn wood flooring, French doors, a formal dining room, a den, an eat-in kitchen, four fireplaces, five bedrooms and 6 1/2 bathrooms.

Hoping to exploit the enormous creative opportunities inherent in new digital technologies, IBM Corp. and three well-known Hollywood talents announced Thursday that they have joined forces to launch a special effects production company. The new Los Angeles-based firm, Digital Domain, will use cutting-edge computer and video technologies to create the type of exotic visual effects popularized by "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and other recent big-budget action movies.

STAN WINSTON / MAKEUP ARTIST Creating mega-reptiles ("Jurassic Park") and scary monsters ("Aliens") has earned creature-master and makeup artist Stan Winston four Oscars. Winston, 53, worked more with minutiae for the namesake devices of "Inspector Gadget"--though he's got more scary stuff in the recently released "Lake Placid" and the upcoming "End of Days.' He's also inaugurating his own production company.

There are monsters in Van Nuys. Behind the deceptively placid facade of one building in an industrial strip near the airport, there lurk vampires, demons, voracious aliens, killer robots and a host of other nightmarish humanoids. There's also a decidedly nonhuman member of this unfriendly bunch--looming over the rogue's gallery, looking hungriest and angriest of all, is the massive head of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The T.