Joel Harlow

Joel Harlow
Alma mater	New York School of Visual Arts
Occupation	Make-up artist
Awards	2009 Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Joel Harlow is a makeup artist. Harlow won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling in 2009 for his work on Star Trek, and was once again nominated in 2013 for The Lone Ranger.

Harlow was inspired to work in film-making after seeing the 1933 film King Kong as a child. He later explained that he spent "hours in the basement creating things and I knew I wanted to make characters. I just didn't know what it was at the time, that makeup was the way to do that." He attended New York School of Visual Arts where he majored in animation.

Harlow worked together with actor Johnny Depp on several films, such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Alice in Wonderland. While they were both working on The Rum Diary in Puerto Rico, they found a photograph of a Native American which they developed into the makeup design used on Tonto as played by Depp in the 2013 film The Lone Ranger. They had also used it to encourage Walt Disney Studios into producing the film, as at the time that they discovered the image, the film was close to being dropped. In the final design of Tonto, some eight prosthetics were created by Harlow for Depp and eighteen overlapping prosthetics when the actor played the older version of the character.

In 2008, Harlow was nominated with Debbie Zoller, Brian Penikas and Jake Garber for an Emmy Award for Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special for their work on the Mad Men season one episode "Nixon vs. Kennedy".

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