Rob Bottin

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Robin R. Bottin (born April 1, 1959 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American specialist in mask effects in films.

Life

As the youngest of five children, Bottin grew up in the industrial suburb of El Monte . As a child, he loved horror films and magazines like Forrest J Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . His father was a foreman in a transport and storage company that specialized in film sets and props. At the age of 7, Rob Bottin had a drastic experience when his father showed him a box with a Frankenstein mummy and little Rob stayed in front of the box for several hours to wait for the doll to move.

At the age of 14, Bottin sent various drawings and sketches to effect makeup artist Rick Baker ( American werewolf and Michael Jackson's legendary thriller video), who promptly hired him. But the only major collaboration between the two was John Guillermins King Kong - remake of the 1976th

1978 began a fruitful collaboration with director Joe Dante , who hired Rob Bottin for his horror B-film Piranhas . Two years later, Bottin created the ghost pirates for John Carpenter's horror classic The Fog . Thanks to Bottin's height of 1.88 meters, he was even allowed to slip into the costume of Chief Pirate Blake in person in the final sequence. In 1981 he came into direct competition with his former mentor Rick Baker when he created the effects for Joe Dante's The Beast , parallel to John Landis ' American Werewolf , for which Baker created the later Oscar-winning mask effects.

Probably his most spectacular work followed in 1982 for John Carpenter's Das Ding aus Another World , a remake of the 1951 classic. Bottin worked seven days a week for the multitude of mask effects for a year and had to be taken to the hospital with total exhaustion at the end of the shooting . This was followed by two more Joe Dante films, Weird Shadow Lights (1983) and Explorers - A Fantastic Adventure (1985), in which River Phoenix made his film debut.

His only collaboration with Ridley Scott is also very successful . For Legende (1985) with Tom Cruise , Bottin created a multitude of creepy mythical creatures, which earned him an Oscar nomination. After Die Hexen von Eastwick (1987), Die Reise ins Ich (1987) was the last collaboration with Joe Dante. With RoboCop (1987) and Total Recall (1990) (both directed by Paul Verhoeven ) Rob Bottin once again showed the full range of his skills until things calmed down a bit in the early 1990s. With Sieben (1995) and Fight Club (1999), two works for David Fincher followed .

In 1998 he worked on a script draft for the horror film Freddy vs. Jason and was even under discussion as a director, but the project was delayed due to lack of funds (the executive studio New Line Cinema had just pre-financed The Lord of the Rings ) so that Ronny Yu did not shoot the film until 2003.

Rob Bottin's last major projects so far were the first part of the theatrical version of Charlie's Angels (2000) and the comedy Mr. Deeds (2002) with Adam Sandler . Rob Bottin has not appeared in public since then.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Saturn Award

nomination

Award

  • 1988: in the Best Make-up category for RoboCop
  • 1988: in the Best Special Effects category for RoboCop
  • 1996: in the Best Make-up for Seven category
BAFTA Award

nomination

  • 1986: in the Best Make-up for Legend category
  • 1989: in the BAFTA Film Award / Best Visual Effects category for RoboCop
Oscar

Award

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personal data
SURNAME Bottin, Rob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bottin, Robin R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American specialist for mask effects in film
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , USA