12 Examples of How Makeup Artists Transform Actors (12 photos)

Despite the wealth of modern computer-aided filmmaking technology, makeup artists are still used on film sets, even if it's not just subtle makeup and added wrinkles, but serious makeup. Actors sometimes spend several hours a day on set, literally transforming into their characters using various makeup techniques. Take a look at the best examples of this miraculous transformation.





Cate Blanchett as Hobo in Manifesto.



Hugo Weaving as the evil nurse in Cloud Atlas.





Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.



Tilda Swinton in "The Grand Budapest Hotel."



Jim Carrey in "The Mask."



John Travolta in "Hairspray" as a woman.



Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns."



Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover



Jared Leto in "Mr. Nobody."



Why not remember Georgy Millyar as Baba Yaga?



Gary Oldman as Churchill in "Darkest Hour."



Mila Kunis in "Oz the Great and Powerful."