The Elephant Man

On the data. One film, and it changed the Academy Awards. Christopher Tucker's prosthetics, made from casts of Merrick's actual remains, took about eight hours to apply. There was no Academy Award for makeup at the time and the omission was criticised loudly enough that the category was created the next year. The first winner was An American Werewolf in London. Mel Brooks produced it and deliberately kept his name out of the credits and the marketing, knowing audiences would expect a comedy. He hired David Lynch on the strength of Eraserhead, which almost nobody had seen. John Hurt is under the makeup throughout and was nominated for best actor. He has described the shoot as physically punishing and said he would not do it again. The man's name was Joseph Merrick. He is called John in the film and in much of the literature, because the surgeon who wrote about him got it wrong and it stuck. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won none.

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