Adrien Morot
Canadian make-up artist
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Adrien Francis Morot (born 1970 in Montreal) is a Canadian makeup artist. In 2023 he won the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar for The Whale (sharing the award with Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley),[2] having earlier received an additional nomination in the same category for the film Barney's Version,[3] and he has won the Genie Award for Best Makeup twice for his work on Barney's Version and Cruising Bar 2.
Adrien Morot | |
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| Born | Adrien Francis Morot 1970 (age 55–56)[1] |
| Occupation | makeup artist |
| Years active | 1993-present |
Early career
Morot had taken on various artistic interests since he was around five years old.[4] He drew creatures inspired by those from monster movies;[4] sculpted casts of his friends Star Wars toys; experimented with plasticine, Styrofoam, and Vaseline to make masks;[5] and was making home movies beginning at the age of twelve.[6] Though originally wanting to get into the film business as a stunt actor, his childhood experiences and a reading of a Fangoria feature about The Thing (1982) is what changed his career path to becoming a visual effects artist.[6]
Morot tried to break in when he was seventeen by working as a prop assistant[6] and storyboarding for various films made in Quebec.[7] He quickly grew dissatisfied with being on set and the lack of FX work available in the area.[6] At the age of 20, he went to Los Angeles as part of a tour offered by his friend, Jacques.[7] After showing his portfolio to various workers in the effects industry, including Tom Savini (a man he first knew about from reading Fangoria), he quickly garnered six job offers.[7]
Personal life
Selected filmography
- Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle - 1994
- The Wind from Wyoming (Le Vent du Wyoming) - 1994
- Octobre - 1994
- Relative Fear - 1994
- The Education of Little Tree - 1997
- The Bone Collector - 1999
- Battlefield Earth - 2000
- The Art of War - 2000
- Maelström - 2000
- Subconscious Cruelty - 2000
- A Glimpse of Hell - 2001
- WiseGirls - 2002
- The Collector (Le Collectionneur) - 2002
- Steal - 2002
- Alice's Odyssey (L'Odyssée d'Alice Tremblay) - 2002
- No Good Deed - 2002
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash - 2002
- My Little Eye - 2002
- Napoléon - 2002
- Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain - 2003
- Evil Words (Sur le seuil) - 2003
- Beyond Borders - 2003
- Timeline - 2003
- Decoys - 2004
- Secret Window - 2004
- Taking Lives - 2004
- A Hole in One - 2004
- The Day After Tomorrow - 2004
- Noel - 2004
- The Last Sign - 2005
- Where the Truth Lies - 2005
- C.R.A.Z.Y. - 2005
- Guy X - 2005
- Aurore - 2005
- Dodging the Clock (Horloge biologique) - 2005
- Human Trafficking - 2005
- The Rocket (Maurice Richard) - 2005
- Les Boys IV - 2005
- The Woods - 2006
- Lucky Number Slevin - 2006
- Bon Cop, Bad Cop - 2006
- The Fountain - 2006
- The Covenant - 2006
- 300 - 2006
- Night at the Museum - 2006
- Decoys 2: Alien Seduction - 2007
- End of the Line - 2007
- Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) - 2007
- The Great War - 2007
- Surviving My Mother (Comment survivre à sa mère) - 2007
- Redacted - 2007
- Just Buried - 2007
- The Spiderwick Chronicles - 2008
- Barney's Version - 2010
- The United States vs. Billie Holiday - 2021
- The Whale - 2022
