March 29, 2022

This Day in Halloween: Rick Baker wins the inaugural award for Best Make-up at the 54th Academy Awards in 1982. / Illustration by Summer Ward

The inaugural award for Best Make-up is presented by actors Kim Hunter and Vincent Price at the 54th Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1982. Rick Baker wins for An American Werewolf in London.

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