The Dick Smith Legends of Makeup Scholarship Announcement

The winner of Cinema Makeup School & Fangoria Magazine’s $10,000 Dick Smith Legends of Makeup Scholarship has been selected. This has been a grueling process for our scholarship committee.We have meticulously read through hundreds of applications and found several spectacular artists that made it extremely difficult to choose only one winner. We applaud everyone’s efforts especially these four finalists: Nicole Ordaz, Las Vegas, NV, USA; Katherine Tyryk, Moscow, Russia; Melissa Jimenez Ramirez, Bogota, Colombia; and Ebony Kay, Lilydale, Australia. For these four finalists, we are happy to reward them with Cinema Makeup School’s signature Digital Effects Makeup class.

Without further ado we are thrilled to announce Wayne Anderson from Fort Myers, Florida as the winner of the inaugural 2010 Dick Smith Legends of Makeup Scholarship. All of the pictures in this article are original works of Wayne Anderson. Wayne is a self taught artist that demonstrated consistent effort in his desire to become a professional makeup artist. For years, through trial and error, he has created his own costumes and brought a new sense of innovation to all of his makeup and creature creations. He will be starting class at Cinema Makeup School this summer. Leonard Engelman, Governor of the Makeup Branch on the Board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and chairman of our Scholarship Committee commented on Anderson’s work:

“Wayne Anderson’s artistic ability, his passion for the art of makeup, his drive to learn , progress, and achieve even on his own has brought him to be chosen the winner of this year’s Legend of Makeup Scholarship. I know Dick Smith is very proud”.

The scholarship is an annual award presented by Cinema Makeup School and Fangoria Magazine celebrating the career and craft of legendary makeup artists. This Scholarship has been introduced to identify those newcomers to makeup who are dedicated and motivated by passion of their craft to spearhead the next vanguard of professional makeup artists.

The 2011 Legends of Makeup Scholarship has now been decided. It will be named in honor of Ve Neill. Ve Neill has been nominated for Oscars a total of eight times and has won for Beetlejuice, Mrs. Doubtfire and Ed Wood. Her other nominated films include Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Hoff, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At worlds End. See her artistry in the upcoming films Priest and The Amazing Spiderman. She is also a regular makeup competition judge on SyFy’s Face Off.