{"id":2047,"date":"2026-06-18T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:06:22","slug":"locarno-rick-baker-seven-time-oscar-winner-and-makeup-effects-artist-to-receive-vision-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"Locarno: Rick Baker, Seven-Time Oscar Winner and Makeup Effects Artist, to Receive Vision Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe\u00a0Locarno Film Festival will bestow its Vision Award, presented by\u00a0Ticinomoda,\u00a0upon Rick Baker, the seven-time Oscar winner behind some of cinema\u2019s most fantastical creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2045\">A Parking Spot, a Philosophical War and the Most Talked-About Film at Shanghai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBaker will receive the award in the Swiss town\u2019s Piazza Grande on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 12. He will also present, within the festival program, two key films from his career, namely <em>An American Werewolf in London<\/em> (1981) and <em>The Nutty Professor<\/em> (1996).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom his early\u00a0make-up\u00a0work on genre films in the 1970s to his sophisticated creature and character designs for large-scale studio productions, Rick Baker has forged a new visual grammar for cinematic metamorphosis, earning him a record number of Academy Awards for best makeup and cementing his status as a reference point for generations of artists,\u201d said Locarno organizers. \u201cOver his\u00a0long career, Rick Baker has\u00a0transformed\u00a0Michael Jackson into a zombie in\u00a0<em>Thriller<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0turned\u00a0Jim Carrey into the Grinch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It concluded: \u201cHe has\u00a0been responsible for\u00a0crafting\u00a0unforgettable werewolves to some of the most realistic gorillas ever created for film, each time redefining the audience\u2019s sense of what is real and what is imagined on the big screen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Vision Award pays tribute to someone whose creative work has contributed to the renewal of the cinematographic imaginary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRick Baker\u00a0was responsible for\u00a0a Copernican revolution in cinema: visionary and revolutionary, he opened new paths for the imagination of entire generations, showing what it truly means to\u00a0witness\u00a0physical transmutation on the big screen,\u201d said Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro.\u00a0\u201cHis filmography includes collaborations with George Lucas and David Cronenberg, Brian De Palma and Joe Dante, Tim Burton and Peter Jackson, John\u00a0Carpenter\u00a0and Mike Nichols, among many others.\u00a0Presenting the Vision Award in Locarno to a pioneer and innovator like him, an absolute genius and incomparable craftsman, is an honor through which the\u00a0festival\u00a0celebrates the infinite possibilities of cinema and its bag of tricks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2043\">Shanghai\u2019s Rising Filmmakers Get a Master Class From the Festival Elite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 79th\u00a0edition of the Locarno Film Festival runs Aug. 5-15.\u00a0Darren Aronofsky\u00a0will receive Locarno\u2019s Honorary Leopard this year, \u00a0Isabella Rossellini\u00a0will receive its Excellence Award,\u00a0Asia Argento will be honored with the Life Achievement Award, and <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>, <em>Wild at Heart<\/em>, <em>Beverly Hills, 90210<\/em> producer Sigurj\u00f3n \u201cJoni\u201d Sighvatsson\u00a0will get the Raimondo Rezzonico Award.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2042\">APOS: Prime Video Bets Its Future in Asia-Pacific on Building the \u201cEntertainment Hub\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Baker, Seven-Time Oscar Winner and Makeup Effects Artist, to Receive Locarno Vision Award\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,1212,1213,904,905],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-international","tag-kviff","tag-kviff-2026","tag-locarno-2026","tag-locarno-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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