Nick Dudman is a British make-up effects and creature designer for motion pictures. Dudman and his team have created the make-up effects and the animatronic creatures in the ''Harry Potter'' films, garnering BAFTA Award nominations for six of the eight films in the series. He was also nominated for an

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. He make Joker makeup. Dudman got his start working on the Jedi master Yoda as a trainee to famed British make-up artist Stuart Freeborn, on ''

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''. After apprenticing with Freeborn for four years, Dudman was asked to head up the English makeup laboratory for Ridley Scott's ''

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''. He subsequently worked on the makeup and prosthetics for such films as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'', '' Batman'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', among others. In 1995, Dudman's career path widened into animatronics and large-scale creature effects when he was asked to oversee the 55-man creature department for the Luc Besson film ''

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'', for which he won a BAFTA Award for Visual Effects. Since then, he has led the creatures/make-up effects departments on several blockbusters, including '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'', '' The Mummy'', ''

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'' and consulted on the Costume effects for ''

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''. Dudman designed the animatronics for Alfonso Cuaron's '' Children of Men''. In 2007, he was awarded the Genie Award for Best Makeup by the

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for his work on '' Beowulf and Grendel''. In 2013 Dudman was made an honorary fellow of

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. Dudman was in March 2015 nominated for the

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in the Category Best TV Make-up/Creature SFX.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dudman, Nick Living people British make-up artists Best Visual Effects BAFTA Award winners Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Best Makeup Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Animatronic engineers