Five-time Academy Award-winner, RICK BAKER (Special Make-Up Effects), created the special effects make-up for Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and the supporting players in Life.

Baker had applied his creative make-up artistry to dozens of feature films, including: The Devil’s Advocate, Wolf, The Rocketeer, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Gorillas in the Mist, Starman and Star Wars (cantina sequence). He won an Academy Award for his work on Men In Black, The Nutty Professor, Ed Wood, Harry and the Hendersons and An American Werewolf in London. Additionally, Baker received Academy Award nominations for Mighty Joe Young, Coming to America and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan.

His many television credits include Harry and the Hendersons, Something is Out There, Beauty and the Beast, Werewolf, Thriller and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, for which he received an Emmy Award.