Donald Mowat
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Moon Knight: Official Trailer

Makeup Department Head, Hair Department Head & Prosthetics Designer is Donald Mowat

Dune wins ‘Best Film Make-Up’ at 2022 Saturn Awards

Makeup Department Head / Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer for Dune is Donald Mowat

Dune’s Oscar-winning crafts team returns for Dune: Part Two, which is now filming

Makeup Department Head / Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer for Dune: Part Two is Donald Mowat

Order of Canada medal

Donald Mowat appointed as Member of the Order of Canada

10 Oscar nominations for Dune including Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Makeup Department Head / Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer for Dune is Donald Mowat

Dune receives 11 BAFTA nominations including Best Make Up & Hair

Makeup Department Head / Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer for Dune is Donald Mowat

Behind the scenes: the makeup of Dune

Makeup Department Head / Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer is Donald Mowat

Dune: new Official Trailer

Makeup Department Head / Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer is Donald Mowat

Dune: Official Trailer

Dune: Makeup Department Head/Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer is Donald Mowat

Empire’s Dune World-Exclusive Covers Revealed

Dune: Makeup Department Head/Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer is Donald Mowat

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Donald Mowat is one of the industry’s most sought-after makeup artists. As makeup department head/designer on such films as Blade Runner 2049, Stronger, Sicario, Nightcrawler, Prisoners, The Fighter and 8 Mile and as personal makeup artist for Daniel Craig on Spectre and Skyfall, Donald’s skill and professionalism have kept him in constant demand for the last thirty years.

Accomplished in every genre of film and television – straight and corrective beauty, character makeup, period drama, out of kit special effects/casualty – his awards include a Primetime Emmy, a Saturn award, two Hollywood Makeup Artists Guild awards and two Gemini awards.

Recent releases include Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune for which Donald is Makeup Department Head/Makeup Hair and Prosthetics Designer. Dune recently won Best Film Make-Up at the 2022 Saturn Awards. Dune was also nominated in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the 2022 Oscars and Best Make Up & Hair for the 2022 British Academy film awards. Donald has two previous BAFTA nominations for Nocturnal Animals and Blade Runner 2049.

Donald Mowat with Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin (Photo by Simon Firsht)

Donald Mowat on the set of Moon Knight with Oscar Isaac (Photo by Gábor Kotschy)

Donald Mowat at the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards

Damien Chazelle, director of First Man, on Donald Mowat’s work:

‘People know banged-up and bloody. I can do that in 20 minutes.’ That quote from Donald speaks to the brilliance of who he is and what he does with his art. When we first met to discuss our hopes for makeup in First Man, Donald showed me look boards for each of the characters I had discussed with him. I was stunned by the level of period appropriate detail and the commitment to authenticity in every decision he makes.

With his decades of experience in film, Donald instinctively sees how audiences instantly ‘get’ prosthetics, but that this film would never be about the performance of exaggerated makeup. The looks for the astronauts and their families had to speak to their reality in this decade – their highs and their lows. When Donald showed me his techniques for slight aging of Janet’s character over the course of the missions, I knew he felt in his core what we wanted to do to achieve realness. This was about the actuality of a family in the suburbs, not an unrealistic portrayal of glamour.

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Donald Mowat on the set of The Guilty  with Jake Gyllenhaal © 2021 GLEN WILSON/NETFLIX

Donald Mowat on the set of Blade Runner 2049 with Denis Villeneuve and Ryan Gosling

Donald Mowat on the set of Blade Runner 2049 with Denis Villeneuve and Ryan Gosling

Donald Mowat on the set of Stronger with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany

Donald Mowat on the set of Stronger with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany

Donald Mowat on the set of Sicario with Emily Blunt

Donald Mowat on the set ofSicario with Emily Blunt

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Donald, with his transparent makeup satchel, depicted on the set of Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine shot in Canada in sub-zero temperatures.

Donald on the set of The Fighter with Amy Adams

Donald on the set of The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg

News

<em>Moon Knight</em>: Official Trailer

Moon Knight: Official Trailer

<em>Dune</em> wins 'Best Film Make-Up' at 2022 Saturn Awards

Dune wins 'Best Film Make-Up' at 2022 Saturn Awards

Dune's Oscar-winning crafts team returns for Dune: Part Two, which is now filming

Dune's Oscar-winning crafts team returns for Dune: Part Two, which is now filming

Donald Mowat appointed as Member of the Order of Canada

Donald Mowat appointed as Member of the Order of Canada

10 Oscar nominations for <em>Dune</em> including Best Makeup and Hairstyling

10 Oscar nominations for Dune including Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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