Paul LeBlanc (hairstylist)

Paul LeBlanc (1946 – October 2, 2019) was a Canadian Academy Award-winning hairstylist who won at the 1984 Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Amadeus. He shared the Oscar with Dick Smith.^[1]

One of his first films was the Francis Ford Coppola-produced The Black Stallion Returns. LeBlanc continued to work for Coppola as well as for Lucasfilm, creating new hairstyles for the character of Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi.^[2]

In 2003, LeBlanc received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild.^[3] He died at his home in Dieppe, New Brunswick, on October 2, 2019, at the age of 73.^[4]

Selected filmography

• Black Swan (2010)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• The Terminal (2004)
• Moonlight Mile (2002)
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• The Mask of Zorro (1998)
• Stepmom (1998)
• Jack (1996)
• The Quick and the Dead (1995)
• Casino (1995)
• Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
• We're No Angels (1989)
• Mississippi Burning (1988)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• Children of a Lesser God (1986)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Birdy (1984)
• The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• More American Graffiti (1979)

References

External links

• Paul LeBlanc at IMDb

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