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Stan Winston R.I.P.

post #1 of 53
6/16/08 at 11:16am
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I hope this is not true,but AICN is reporting an unconfirmed story that effects legend and pioneer Stan Winston has passed away.
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post #2 of 53
6/16/08 at 11:21am

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I hope that is not true

We'll see.
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post #3 of 53
6/16/08 at 11:27am

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I assume it's true. It'd be pretty darn irresponsible for a website to report the death of someone so big.

Pretty sad news. His work was remarkable and he really was the best at what he did.

The year's not even half way over, but all these greats keep passing.
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post #4 of 53
6/16/08 at 11:50am

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Oh man.... it seems like AICN is the first to report. I have been looking at all the major sites and nothing is coming up.

RIP.......................
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post #5 of 53
6/16/08 at 11:54am
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I'm not 100% convinced yet. Until it shows up on Yahoo or some other major news site. Then I will believe this.
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post #6 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:05pm

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Wikipedia has already been updated with a June 15, 2008 date of death.

Stan Winston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

M.
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post #7 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:07pm

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Wikipedia says:

Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Los Angeles, California, of cancer.

That is too bad. R.I.P. Mr. Winston.

Edit: Ooops, Michael beat me to it.
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post #8 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:08pm

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Looks like the news is true. Very, very sad.
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post #9 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:16pm

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Call me cynical, but I'll wait until a real source of news reports it.
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post #10 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:16pm

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Originally Posted by Michael Reuben
Wikipedia has already been updated with a June 15, 2008 date of death.

Stan Winston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

M.
Well, if it's on Wikipedia then it must be true.

Update: Bloody-disgusting is reporting it too, from their own sources. See quote below:
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Originally Posted by Bloody-disgusting.com
We were hit with a mirage of phone calls last night and this morning informing us that special effects and make-up guru Stan Winston has passed away Sunday, June 15 in Los Angeles, CA. He was 62. Winston is best known for working on such legendary films as TERMINATOR, JURASSIC PARK, PREDATOR, THE ENTITY, THE THING, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, among many others. Winston won four Oscars in his career. The details of his passing have yet to be reported, we'll be updating you shortly.
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post #11 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:22pm

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Though we don't really think about it that often, he really was one of the single most influential persons on modern cinema. A true legend.

You'll be sorely missed Mr. Winston.
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post #12 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:46pm

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IMDB:
Stan Winston: 1946 - 2008

Very sad news. Stan Winston was one of my heroes. True genius, when it comes to monsters and special make-up effects. RIP.
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post #13 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:47pm

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He really is a legend.

His filmography and influence speak for themselves.
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post #14 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:56pm

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Sad news. I've been a fan for years.

RIP

Stan Winston, dead at 62; Oscar-winning visual effects artist suffered from multiple myeloma | Entertainment News & Buzz | Los Angeles Times
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post #15 of 53
6/16/08 at 12:58pm

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Very sad... looks like it is true................
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post #16 of 53
6/16/08 at 1:00pm

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Wow, that really sucks. I had no idea he had cancer.

Along with Rick Baker and Rob Bottin, Stan's been one of my behind-the-scenes heroes for years. Hopefully, his studios will continue with the amazing work he pioneered.

RIP, Stan.
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post #17 of 53
6/16/08 at 1:01pm

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Associated Press has now picked it up.

You leave us much too soon, Mr. Winston.
(this seems to be happening a lot lately)
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post #18 of 53
6/16/08 at 1:02pm

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The word legend gets used all the time now but Stan Winston was a true legend in the special effects field.

Thanks for the great work, Stan!
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post #19 of 53
6/16/08 at 1:02pm

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Very sad news. He left behind a nice body of work that amazed audiences and inspired others to create cinematic magic and wonder to push the filmmaking envelope.

RIP, Mr. Winston.
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post #20 of 53
6/16/08 at 2:05pm

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He recently built the real-world Iron Man armors. Very cool stuff. He really made the Adi Granov designs come to life.
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post #21 of 53
6/16/08 at 2:26pm

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The man was indeed a legend. You believed in the characters he brought to life. Incredible talent.
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post #22 of 53
6/16/08 at 4:04pm

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Irreplaceable.

I was just the other day thinking about his great work on A.I.
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post #23 of 53
6/16/08 at 4:07pm

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Jurassic Park. The Terminator. T2. Aliens. Predator. AI. The Lost World. Iron Man. Avatar. Fuckin' Pumpkinhead.

Who can carry on his legacy?

A giant has gone home, freed from the bonds of pain in this life.

RIP Stan Winston
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post #24 of 53
6/16/08 at 4:35pm

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This is horrible news, I will miss seeing his work on the big screen.

A true legend.
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post #25 of 53
6/16/08 at 4:38pm

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When I was a grad student teaching film classes to kids in Ohio, one of my students wanted to do an unpaid internship at a special effects house. He found a friend of a friend through his church to put him up in LA, and wrote all the effects house. The only one interested in having him was Stan Winston Studios. He ended up working on Edward Scissorhands and Predator 2 and had a great time. I always hoped I'd get the chance to thank him in person, but never did.

So thank you Stan, for being one of the good ones.
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post #26 of 53
6/16/08 at 4:54pm

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I once had the honor of meeting Rick Baker but never got the chance to meet my other special effects/makeup hero Stan Winston.

May you Rest in Peace.


PS Since it hasnt been mentioned yet; Stan Winston was involved in one of my favorite (and underated) horror films Wrong Turn.
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post #27 of 53
6/16/08 at 5:05pm

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Thank You Mr. Winston for the memories, this year is taking some of the biggest losses from Hollywood, true masters of their craft
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post #28 of 53
6/16/08 at 5:52pm

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James Cameron has made some comments about his death through Aint-It-Cool-News that will update with comments from Jon Favreau and Steven Spielberg as well.

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Harry,

Thanks for doing what you're doing. You're right, the mainstream media won't get it. They don't understand the important stuff. They're too busy chasing young idiot celebrities around the rehab circuit.

Stan was a great man. I'm proud to have been his friend, and his collaborator on what for both of us, was some of our best work. We met in pre-production on Terminator in 1983, and quickly sized each other up as the kind of crazy son of a bitch that you wanted for a friend. We've stayed friends for over a quarter of a century, and would have been for much longer if he had not been cut down.

We've lost a great artist, a man who made a contribution to the cinema of the fantastic that will resound for a long long time. I don't need to list the indelible characters he and his team of artists brought to the screen. Readers of your site know them.

We all know Stan's work, the genius of his designs. But not even the fans necessarily know how great he was as a man. I mean a real man --- a man who knows that even though your artistic passion can rule your life, you still make time for your family and your friends. He was a good father, and he raised two great kids. His wife of 37 years, Karen, was with him in the beginning, helping him make plaster molds in their garage for low budget gigs on TV movies, and she was with him at the end.

He was a man of incredible humor. When I think of him I see him smiling, usually a goofy grin as he twists his glasses askew on his nose doing a Jerry Lewis impression. Never afraid to play the clown, because he knew his colleagues respected him. He lived life full throttle, in work and play. Like me he loved fast cars, and whenever one of us would get a new toy, the other had to drive it (a practice which was strained for few years after I skidded his brand new Porsche turbo, just off the boat from Stuttgart, into his garage and stopped a half inch from the back wall). We even went to formula racing school together. For the last ten years or so we rode motorcycles on Sundays with Arnold Schwarzenegger and some other friends, not every week but as many Sundays as we could. There was a comradeship that comes from starting out together, and never betraying the respect and trust of that friendship over the years, but always being there for each other, that the three of us have shared.

Stan and I founded Digital Domain together, and our friendship was never strained by being business partners. He always demonstrated incredible wisdom in business, because he knew people, and especially creative people. He inspired artists to pull together and work as a team, which is like herding cats, but it was perhaps his greatest talent. To lead by inspiration. His own team at Stan Winston Studios is the most stable in the business. His core guys have been with him literally since Terminator, 25 years. That's because they respected him so much, and because he made the work fun, even though it was hard. They would stay up all night busting their ass for him. They knew they would always be doing something cutting edge and challenging, and that he respected them enough to let them run with it. Though he could draw and sculpt as well as any of them, he never let his own talent eclipse theirs, because he knew that team building was the most important aspect of leadership. And that's what allowed them to create success after success for over two decades, and win 4 Oscars, among over 30 awards. A walk through Stan's studio gallery is a trip through the last two decades of fantasy cinema. Predators, Terminators, raptors, T-rexes, Edward Scissorhands himself and a hundred more. It hits you how great an impact he's had.

I spoke with Stan by phone Saturday morning, and apparently it was one of the last conversations he had. Incredibly, in retrospect, he was full of life, you'd never have known he was at death's door. We talked for a long time about all the fun times, and all the dragons we'd slain together. He said that once you've shown something is possible, everybody can do it. What was important was being first. Breaking new ground.

Well that's just what he did his whole career, and today's creature and character effects business uses the techniques he developed every single day. He inspired a generation of fantasy effects geeks, and his legacy will be found in their dreams up on the screens of the future, not just in the films he worked on directly.

I'm going to miss him, like I'd miss a brother. It's hard, almost unfathomable, to talk about him in the past tense. He was just one of those larger than life people that was so alive that you can't imagine them gone. But he is gone. I ask the fans to remember not just the work but the man.

Thanks for listening.

Jim out

AICN Gives Tribute To STAN WINSTON - A Giant In The World Of Filmmaking Is Gone! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
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post #29 of 53
6/16/08 at 6:02pm

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Originally Posted by Matt Butler
I once had the honor of meeting Rick Baker but never got the chance to meet my other special effects/makeup hero Stan Winston.

May you Rest in Peace.


PS Since it hasnt been mentioned yet; Stan Winston was involved in one of my favorite (and underated) horror films Wrong Turn.


I met Mr. Winston on three occasions, the last time being about a year ago when he and his wife had checked into the hotel that I work for. I can truly say he was an extremely nice person and a true gentleman.

His work dates back as far as the t.v. mini-series Roots and The Autobiography of Ms. Jane Pittman. 62 years is too young of an age to leave this world.

Rest in peace Stan.
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post #30 of 53
6/16/08 at 6:04pm

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In 1972, when Stan and I were both 25, I was one of those lucky people watching Gargoyles (1972) on the TV.
Due mostly to his artistry, that program made a lasting impression.
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