Ve Neill

Ve Neill is a three-time Academy Award-winning makeup artist who worked on . She was nominated for a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for her work on Star Trek, which she shared with Fred B. Phillips and Janna Phillips. She also appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in the recreation deck scene in the film.
The first project on which Neill served as makeup artist was (1977, starring William Shatner). Two years later, she worked with Shatner again on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. During the 1980s, she worked on such films as Nine to Five, The Sword and the Sorcerer and The Lost Boys (for which she received her second Saturn Award nomination). From 1983 through 1986, she was a makeup artist on , whose cast members included s Dwight Schultz.
Neill won the Academy Awards (or Oscars) for Best Makeup for two films for director , (1988, shared with Steve LaPorte) and (1994, shared with Yolanda Toussieng). She also won 1993 Best Makeup Oscar for (shared with Toussieng and Greg Cannom). In addition, she received Oscar nominations for her work on (1990) and (1992), (1992), (2003) and (2007). She also received nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards (BAFTA) for all of these films (except Hoffa), as well as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Neill won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup on in 1988 and won a Primetime Emmy Award with the likes of Barry Koper, Jill Rockow, Joe Colwell, and Joel Harlow for the mini-series The Stand in 1997. Neill also received an Emmy nomination for her work on the 1998 mini-series From Earth to the Moon.
In addition, Neill won Saturn Awards for Beetlejuice, Batman Returns and (1994) and received Saturn nominations for , , , and the first two Pirates of the Caribbean films. Neill's other film makeup credits include (1991), (1991), (1996), (1997), (1997), Man on the Moon, (2000), (2001), (alongside Glenn Hetrick, Daren Dochterman and Gregory Jein), (2005), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. With Glenn Hetrick, Neill was co-nominated for a 2016 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award, for , having served on all four movies of the quadrilogy with Hetrick.
Neill reunited with director Tim Burton as actor 's personal makeup artist for (2007). Currently she serves as a judge in the Syfy reality show, Face Off, along with Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page. The show, which features competing makeup artists, also has Michael Westmore as a mentor.
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