Brian Wade

Brian Wade is an Award Winning Special Makeup Effects Artist turned character/creature designer and sculptor. On Februrary 24th, 2019 his creative contributions for sculpting Christian Bale's prosthetic makeups for the film "VICE" supervised and applied by Multi-Academy Award winning makeup artist Greg Cannom, won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, during the 2019 Oscars. "VICE" also won the 2019 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards, the 2019 Online Film & Television Association Award for best makeup and the 2019 Gold Derby Awards for Best Makeup. "VICE" was also nominated for best makeup by The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), nominated for the 2019 Best Makeup by Awards Circuit Community Awards, and nominated for the 2019 International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA). With over 40 years of experience designing and creating characters and creatures for film and television, his film and television work includes Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Aquaman, Black Panther, Stranger Things, Westworld (HBO Season 2), Batman vs. Superman, Daredevil (Netflix), Code Black, Grimm, The Exorcist III, Ender's Game, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Van Helsing, Blade, The Blob, Stuart Little, Harry and the Hendersons, The Terminator and John Carpenter's The Thing. He designed the title character "Stuart Little" for Sony Imageworks, which was popular and starred Michael J. Fox, Gina Davis and Hugh Laurie. to much box office success and went on to release a sequel "Stuart Little 2" and animated film as well "Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild". He has also co-created and co-sculpted several large-scale video game characters for Riot Games, Red 5 Studios and Blizzard Entertainment. Having worked with and apprenticed under industry legends and Academy Award Winning artists Rick Baker, Stan Winston, Rob Bottin, and Greg Cannom. With over 140 credits in some of the greatest film and TV projects of nearly four decades, Brian has solidified himself as a true industry legend.