F/X Wizard Stan Winston Dead

Stan Winston, whose makeup and visual effects have made monsters and aliens come alive, is dead at the age of 62.

For seven years, Winston had struggled with multiple myeloma, according to a representative from Stan Winston Studio. He died at his home Sunday, surrounded by his family.

Winston won four Academy Awards. In addition to sharing Oscars for visual effects on Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Jurassic Park (1994), he also shared the award for makeup on Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He was nominated six other times.

Most recently, Winston had worked on popular films Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In May, he had been enlisted by director McG to begin work on the upcoming sequel to the Terminator series, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.