Adrien Morot

Adrien Francis Morot (born 1970 in Montreal) is a Canadian makeup artist. In 2023 he won the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar for The Whale (sharing the award with Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley),^[2] having earlier received an additional nomination in the same category for the film Barney's Version,^[3] and he has won the Genie Award for Best Makeup twice for his work on Barney's Version and Cruising Bar 2.

Adrien Morot
Born	Adrien Francis Morot 1970 (age 54–55)[1] Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	makeup artist
Years active	1993-present

Early career

Morot had taken on various artistic interests since he was around five years old.^[4] He drew creatures inspired by those from monster movies;^[4] sculpted casts of his friends Star Wars toys; experimented with plasticine, Styrofoam, and Vaseline to make masks;^[5] and was making home movies beginning at the age of twelve.^[6] Though originally wanting to get into the film business as a stunt actor, his childhood experiences and a reading of a Fangoria feature about The Thing (1982) is what changed his career path to becoming a visual effects artist.^[6]

Morot tried to break in when he was seventeen by working as a prop assistant^[6] and storyboarding for various films made in Quebec.^[7] He quickly grew dissatisfied with being on set and the lack of FX work available in the area.^[6] At the age of 20, he went to Los Angeles as part of a tour offered by his friend, Jacques.^[7] After showing his portfolio to various workers in the effects industry, including Tom Savini (a man he first knew about from reading Fangoria), he quickly garnered six job offers.^[7]

Personal life

Selected filmography

• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle - 1994
• The Wind from Wyoming (Le Vent du Wyoming) - 1994
• Octobre - 1994
• Relative Fear - 1994
• The Education of Little Tree - 1997
• The Bone Collector - 1999
• Battlefield Earth - 2000
• The Art of War - 2000
• Maelström - 2000
• Subconscious Cruelty - 2000
• A Glimpse of Hell - 2001
• WiseGirls - 2002
• The Collector (Le Collectionneur) - 2002
• Steal - 2002
• Alice's Odyssey (L'Odyssée d'Alice Tremblay) - 2002
• No Good Deed - 2002
• The Adventures of Pluto Nash - 2002
• My Little Eye - 2002
• Napoléon - 2002
• Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain - 2003
• Evil Words (Sur le seuil) - 2003
• Beyond Borders - 2003
• Timeline - 2003
• Decoys - 2004
• Secret Window - 2004
• Taking Lives - 2004
• A Hole in One - 2004
• The Day After Tomorrow - 2004
• Noel - 2004
• The Last Sign - 2005
• Where the Truth Lies - 2005
• C.R.A.Z.Y. - 2005
• Guy X - 2005
• Aurore - 2005
• Dodging the Clock (Horloge biologique) - 2005
• Human Trafficking - 2005
• The Rocket (Maurice Richard) - 2005
• Les Boys IV - 2005
• The Woods - 2006
• Lucky Number Slevin - 2006
• Bon Cop, Bad Cop - 2006
• The Fountain - 2006
• The Covenant - 2006
• 300 - 2006
• Night at the Museum - 2006
• Decoys 2: Alien Seduction - 2007
• End of the Line - 2007
• Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) - 2007
• The Great War - 2007
• Surviving My Mother (Comment survivre à sa mère) - 2007
• Redacted - 2007
• Just Buried - 2007
• The Spiderwick Chronicles - 2008
• Barney's Version - 2010
• The United States vs. Billie Holiday - 2021
• The Whale - 2022