Paul LeBlanc
Paul LeBlanc is a Canadian hairstylist and makeup artist, who won an Oscar for Best Make -up, a British Academy Film Award for the best mask, a Genie Award for outstanding service as well as the award for his life's work from the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild had received.
Life
Paul LeBlanc grew up on Canada's east coast in the province of New Brunswick. LeBlanc began his career as a makeup artist in the film industry in Hollywood in 1979 with the film The Party is over ... More American Graffiti and worked until today to around seventy films.
At the Academy Awards in 1985 he won with Dick Smith the Oscar for best makeup for Amadeus (1984 ) by Milos Forman with F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce and Elizabeth Berridge in the lead roles. In addition, both won the BAFTA Film Award for best makeup, and in 1985 he also has the Genie Award for special services.
In 2000, the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild him nominated for the award for Best Contemporary Hair Styling in a feature film, and indeed for Anywhere But Here (1999) by Wayne Wang starring Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman and Hart Bochner in the lead roles.
For that produced by the TV channel Syfy science fiction miniseries Children of Dune (2003) by director Greg Yaitanes with Alec Newman, James McAvoy and Jessica Brooks, he was nominated in 2003 with Tamara Koubová for an Emmy for Outstanding Hairstyling in a miniseries. In addition, he was honored by the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild with the award for his life's work ( Lifetime Achievement Award ) in 2003.
In 2004 he was awarded with Jean Ann Black was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for the best mask for Big Fish (2003) by Tim Burton with Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney and Alison Lohman. Furthermore, he and Jean Ann Black for nominated for the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award ( PFCS Award) for the best makeup.