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FILM DIRECTOR

Stan Winston

1946 - 2008

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Stanley Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special make-up effects artist, best known for his work in the Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, The Thing, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, and Edward Scissorhands. He won four Academy Awards for his work. Winston, a frequent collaborator with directors James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stan Winston has received more than 1,077,718 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Stan Winston is the 627th most popular film director (down from 613th in 2019), the 4,130th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,000th in 2019) and the 159th most popular American Film Director.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Stan Winston ranks 627 out of 1,581. Before him are Ann Hui, Steven Knight, Paul Grimault, Enzo G. Castellari, Brad Bird, and Juraj Herz. After him are Yakov Protazanov, Paul Haggis, Charles Vidor, Otakar Vávra, Kevin Smith, and Majid Majidi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Stan Winston ranks 268. Before him are Roméo Dallaire, Joseph Deiss, Blake Clark, László Polgár, Frank Welker, and Andrzej Seweryn. After him are Gérard Grisey, Mireya Moscoso, William Thurston, Jeff Wall, Zülfü Livaneli, and Zhang Dejiang. Among people deceased in 2008, Stan Winston ranks 143. Before him are Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Robert Mulligan, Imad Mughniyah, Nina Foch, Freddie Hubbard, and Germaine Tillion. After him are Grigory Romanov, John List, David Foster Wallace, Ahmed al-Mirghani, Boris Yefimov, and Edwin Ernest Salpeter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stan Winston ranks 4,130 out of 18,182. Before him are Paul Gilbert (1966), Joseph Cornell (1903), Peter Steele (1962), Ellen Church (1904), Mort Shuman (1938), and John C. Lilly (1915). After him are Pamela Sue Martin (1953), Herman Kahn (1922), Emma Lazarus (1849), Sunita Williams (1965), Melissa Etheridge (1961), and Chuck Schuldiner (1967).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Stan Winston ranks 159. Before him are Jennifer Lee (1971), Robert Mulligan (1925), Jack Arnold (1916), Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Paul Mazursky (1930), and Brad Bird (1957). After him are Kevin Smith (1970), Todd Phillips (1970), Frances Marion (1888), Andrew Blake (1947), Nancy Meyers (1949), and Bryan Singer (1965).

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Filmography

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