Mindy Hall is a

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who has worked on films such as ''

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'' (2014) and '' Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'' (2010). She also worked on '' Star Trek'' (2009), where she was involved in the redesign work on the

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race. For her work on that film, she won an

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for Best Makeup.

Career

Hall decided to pursue a career in Hollywood makeup at the age of 17. She attended

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, but she dropped out and instead joined the apprenticeship programme for makeup at the

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. Following her completion of the course, she worked with several regional opera companies to do makeup as well as hairstyling and wig construction. Mindy is co-author with Gretchen Davis of ''The Makeup Artist Handbook'' published by Focal Press. She worked on a number of films, including ''

'', '' P.S. I Love You'' and '' Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps''. As part of her work on 2009's '' Star Trek'', she was involved in the redesign of the

race seen in the film. She was the department head of makeup on the film, where she led a team of over forty makeup artists as well as

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and

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who designed the aliens seen in the movie.

Awards

The make-up team working on ''Star Trek'' won an

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at the

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. It was the trio's first nomination and was the first Oscar to have been awarded to any film in the franchise. They repeated their success at the 36th Saturn Awards, even though the event was dominated by the success of James Cameron's ''

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''. In 2011, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding makeup, mini-series or movies as the head of the team that worked on the HBO television series '' Cinema Verite''.

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