Greg Cannom (21 August 1951–3 May 2025; age 73) was a makeup and special effects artist who worked on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Cannom most notably created the jackal mastiff in the film.
Cannom is a four-times Academy Award winner and six-times nominee in the category Best Makeup. He won the Oscar for his work on Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1993, for Mrs. Doubtfire in 1994 and shared with Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2009, and for Vice in 2019 and shared with Patricia Dehaney.
His Oscar nominations include Hook in 1992 and shared with Monty Westmore, Hoffa in 1993 and shared with Ve Neill, Roommates in 1996, the drama Titanic in 1998, Bicentennial Man in 2000, and the drama A Beautiful Mind in 2002.
Cannom and Wesley Wofford received the Technical Achievement Award for the development of their special modified silicone material for makeup applications used in motion pictures in 2005. In addition, Cannom won two Saturn Awards and six nominations, four BAFTA Award nominations, and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work. In 2018 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild.
In a career spanning six decades, Cannom worked on over 120 feature films and television series. Among his most notable work are The Howling (1981), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983), Cocoon (1985), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), Dick Tracy (1990), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), Alien 3 (1992), Batman Returns (1992), The Mask (1994), the science fiction television series Earth 2 (1994-1995), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Blade (1998), Hannibal (2001), Ali (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Big Momma's House 2 (2006), Watchmen (2009), Fan (2016), and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021).
Cannom was interviewed for the 2007 documentary Creature People along with actor Robert Picardo and Star Trek makeup and special effects artists Michael Westmore, Rick Stratton, David Quashnick, Craig Reardon, Kevin Haney, and Rob Burman. Between 2011 and 2014, he contributed to several episodes of the reality program Face Off, hosted by McKenzie Westmore.
Cannom passed away after a long battle with illness at the age of 73. [1]