Christien Tinsley is a make-up artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Makeup

Academy Award for Makeup

The Academy Award for Best Makeup is the Oscar given to the best achievement in makeup for film. Usually, only three films are nominated each year rather than five as in most categories...

 for his work in The Passion of the Christ

The Passion of the Christ

The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American drama film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus. It depicts the Passion of Jesus largely according to the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...

(2004). He won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement

Academy Award for Technical Achievement

The Technical Achievement Award is a kind of Scientific and Technical Award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to those whose particular technical accomplishments have contributed to the progress of the motion picture industry and who are given a certificate, which describes...

 in 2008

80th Academy Awards

The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 24, 2008 . During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24...

"for the creation of the transfer techniques for creating and applying 2D and 3D makeup known as Tinsley Transfers". He won the Indian Film Academy Award in 2010 for best make up for the 2009 Bollywood film Paa.

External links

Chill Factor (1999) (prosthetic makeup effects: XFX, inc.)
Evil Hill (1999) (designer and creator: special makeup effects