10 stars who wore prosthetic noses

Hollywood’s favorite special effect may be the prosthetic nose. Get the right team of makeup artists and an actor without a lot of vanity, and they can all find themselves running up to the podium on Oscar night. 𒅌With Friday’s release of “Foxcatcher,” Steve Carell joins the likes of Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Robert De Niro and other stars who’ve learned the path to Oscar gold just might start with a big, fake nose.

Steve Carell, ‘Foxcatcher’ (2014)

Actors with prominent proboscises have won Oscars several times — if you’re reading this list, you know who they💎 are — so we can expect funnyman Carell, who plays malevolent millionaire John du Pont in this true crime story, to be nominated for Best Actor for making such a radical transformation.

Meryl Streep, ‘The Iron Lady’ (2011)

Streep’s bag of accents could ౠonly get her so far in playing the polarizing British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Makeup artists had to fashion a royal beak for the New Jersey-born thesp, who walked off with a Best Actress Oscar for her efforts in 2012.

Jim Carrey, ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’ (2004)

As Count Olaf in this film adaptation of the children’s book, Carrey was transformed into a balding old man, with sparse white hair and a huge nose. Valli O’Reill🎃y and Bill Corso won the Oscar for Best Makeup in 2005.

Nicole Kidman, ‘The Hours’ (2002)

Virginia Woolf had an aristocratic, aquiline nose — but what the makeup artists on “The Ho🔴urs” came up with for Kidman was hardly that. Her Woolf was dowdy in the extreme, but it seemed to work for what the filmmakers wanted to say about mental illness and the fragile creative personality. Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar in 2003.

Danny DeVito, ‘Batman Returns’ (1992)

DeVito may be short in stature, but he cast a giant shadow as the Penguin thanks to a daggerlike beak designed for him by the makeup team of Stan Winston, Ve Neill and Ronnie Specter, who received an Oscar nomination and won a prize from the Academy of Scienceꦚ Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

Al Pacino, ‘Dick Tracy’ (1990)

Pacino won an Oscar nomination for his hammy performance as Big Boy Caprice in the “Dick Tracy” spoof. Everything about his makeup and costume was over-the-top — incl🦩uding that🦩 schnozz.

Steve Martin, ‘Roxanne’ (1987)

In this modern adaptation of the play “Cyrano de Bergerac,” Martin played C.D. Bales, a guy with a b🉐ig nose who falls for the gorgeous Roxanne (Daryl Hannah) while she falls for his personality but another man’s looks.

Billy Crystal, ‘The Princess Bride’ (1987)

Crystal tra⛦nsformed himself from moon-faced comedian to the ancient magician Miracle Max, complete with white hair, R🌜embrandt-esque nose and super-bushy eyebrows.

Robert De Niro, ‘Raging Bull’ (1980)

To play boxer Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s film, De Niro did more than wear a phony proboscis: He also underwent a physical transformation and gained weight for the role. Virtually unrecognizable, De Niro won a Best Actor Osc𝓡ar in 1981.

Lee Marvin, ‘Cat Ballou’ (1965)

The late Marvin won a surprise Best Acto🌱r Oscಞar for a dual role in this Western comedy that also starred Jane Fonda. Marvin played Kid Shelleen, a gunslinger who has seen much better days, and Tim Strawn, a killer who also happens to be Shelleen’s brother. Marvin wore a black prosthetic nose to play Strawn.