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Adrien Morot, the Montreal-born makeup artist on "The Whale," says his first Oscar wouldn't mean as much if his friend Brendan Fraser didn't....
Adrien Morot, the Montreal-born makeup artist on “The Whale,” says his first Oscar wouldn't mean as much if his friend Brendan Fraser didn't come away with.
Adrien Morot
Canadian make-up artist
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), having earlier received an additional nomination in the same category for the film Barney's Version,[2] and he has won the Genie Award for Best Makeup twice for his work on Barney's Version and Cruising Bar 2.
Early career
Morot had taken on various artistic interests since he was around five years old. He drew creatures inspired by those from monster movies; sculpted casts of his friends Star Wars toys; experimented with plasticine, Styrofoam, and Vaseline to make masks; and was making home movies beginning at the age of twelve.
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