page_title: Ben Nye Makeup Company
hierarchical_section_title: Ben Nye Makeup Company
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the logo of the Ben Nye Makeup company, used from 2014 until present.
context_page_description: The Ben Nye Makeup Company was started in 1967 by Hollywood film industry makeup artist Ben Nye. Its current CEO is Nye's son, Dana Nye. The company is a family-owned business that is dedicated to serving professionals throughout the world. In 2017, The Ben Nye Makeup Company celebrated their 50-year anniversary.
  Ben Nye Makeup Company's range of professional cosmetic and special effects products are commonly used in television, stage, and film performance. Ben Nye Makeup Company produces products such as foundations, cosmetic powders, eyeshadows, concealers, face paints, body paints, fake blood, liquid latex, fixing sprays, brushes and tools.
  Since its early emergent years, Ben Nye was a renowned makeup artist known by many popular films and performances such as Diary of Anne Frank, Sound of Music, the Planet of the Apes, The King and I, and the most pivotal Oscar award winner— Gone with the Wind.
  In this late 1930s film that Ben Nye recognized there was no range of colors for ethnic actors. He started designing foundations and contour shades for brown and olive complexions, including Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel, who portrayed Mammy in GWTW.
context_section_description: The Ben Nye Makeup Company was started in 1967 by Hollywood film industry makeup artist Ben Nye. Its current CEO is Nye's son, Dana Nye. The company is a family-owned business that is dedicated to serving professionals throughout the world. In 2017, The Ben Nye Makeup Company celebrated their 50-year anniversary.
  Ben Nye Makeup Company's range of professional cosmetic and special effects products are commonly used in television, stage, and film performance. Ben Nye Makeup Company produces products such as foundations, cosmetic powders, eyeshadows, concealers, face paints, body paints, fake blood, liquid latex, fixing sprays, brushes and tools.
  Since its early emergent years, Ben Nye was a renowned makeup artist known by many popular films and performances such as Diary of Anne Frank, Sound of Music, the Planet of the Apes, The King and I, and the most pivotal Oscar award winner— Gone with the Wind.
  In this late 1930s film that Ben Nye recognized there was no range of colors for ethnic actors. He started designing foundations and contour shades for brown and olive complexions, including Oscar winner, Hattie McDaniel, who portrayed Mammy in GWTW.
  He was known as a creative director, an innovator, and prided himself in realism with films that included special effects, bruising, battle wounds, aging and even prosthetics for characters such as the Fly, Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria.
caption: Ben Nye logo used from 2014–present.
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