Man, it’s been a rough couple of months for well-known people passing away in the Hollywood industry. I’ve just learned that the well-loved and amazingly talented visual effects master Stan Winston has died. He was only 62 years old.
His last completed work was the creation of the armors in the recent hit Iron Man - he was scheduled to do special effects work on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.
Winston died at home Sunday evening after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma (a cancer of the plasma cell that is treatable but incurable), according to a rep from Stan Winston Studio.
“Stan died peacefully at home surrounded by family,” a spokeswoman said.
Stan leaves a heck of a legacy behind him and is the man behind the visual and make-up effects of many of movies that have left a big impression on me including Aliens, Predator, The Thing, and Terminator I & II. He also shared an Oscar for VFX work with Phil Tippet for the film Jurassic Park.
My condolences go out to his family. He will definitely be missed in Hollywood…
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18 Comments
Oh no!
I’m so sorry to hear this news..
Another legend leaves us.. we’re loosing a lot of people lately…
Rest Easy Stan, and thank you for everything!
He’ll be missed!
Oh, man… Devon Ryan this past Thursday, now this?
Thank you Stan. You’ll be greatly missed.
He was a true genius who helped to shape cinema as we know it over the past 30 years.
Niall
I GASPED when i heard this .
Movies will never be the same .
Rest easy Stan,
You have most certainly earned it .
Those are some fantastic looking movies and would not have been the hits they are without him. Certainly not with me anyway.
I much prefer his kind of special effects to the clean, overdone stuff we get now.
i felt my heart jumped when i saw the title. i love his special effects and all he has done to improve cinema. im gonna miss you stan “the real iron man”
RIP Stan, you definitely revolutionized the way movies were done and thank you for bringing so much joy to the world through your work!
This shocked the heck outta me. I became a fan years ago when I read about his rise in the 1980s, when I was a little kid wanting to do monster movies. He helped Rob Bottin (who, along with Rick Baker, make up my three favorite makeup FX artists) on The Thing and that Dog-Thing just KILLED, it was so awesome!
Jurassic Park, Aliens, Iron Man, the list goes on. And I hear he was the nicest of guys. As a filmmaker, I dreamed of working with Stan.
RIP to a legend! His legacy and work have made him immortal in the industry.
heath
Rest easy Mr Winston.
You are now and will always be a legend in the business.
We will miss you.
This hit me pretty hard today.
Sounds like (thankfully) he left us at home and at peace……
This is a huge loss to the world and the movie industry.
I consider myself lucky to have met him backstage when he won the Oscar for Jurrasic Park. Very approchable man, who allways reminded me of a crazy scientist that would dream up all these classic movie creatures.
Stan created the Predator design in a few days, as he was working on 2 other films at the time.
The man was a genius. He has a great staff of like-minded talent that I KNOW will carry on the name.
“Stan Winston Studios”!!!
Rest with the Best Stan! Your creations will live on for centuries!!!
Really saddened by this news. RIP, Stan. Thanks for all the great memories.
stan is one of the reasons of steven spielberg’s success and james cameron
God bless Stan Winston and his family and friends… Tim Russert past away on 6/13, this is a very sorrowful year for the world to lose such humble and amazingly gifted people.
Incredibly sad news. Stan Winston is and always will be a master of the special/visual effects arts; a name of quality. A truly great loss to the movie-making world
Oh man, so who’s gonna make the next Iron Man suit? Rob Bottin?
Yeah, but remember it’s Stan Winston Studios, he didn’t run a one man show. I know he has tons of talented artists there.
Vic
Hopefully he was a darn good teacher.
Not really an opinion other than to say I am sad by the passing of Stan, who I did not work with and Devon Ryan who I did. I have begun to put out the word about Devon and have found out that much of the work he did over the years has well been uncredited or just not listed. I have submitted a biography to IMDB and let them know he passed. I am hoping others will go in and accurately start listing Devon’s credits.
Jim
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