American prosthetic make-up artist who created many of the background aliens for the 2009 film Star Trek and shared the Academy Award for Best Makeup for it.
Barney Burman comes from a long-established family of Hollywood make-up artists and runs the effects studio Proteus Make-up FX.
For J.J. Abrams's Star Trek in 2009 his team designed and built a wide range of new alien species seen at Starfleet Academy, in the Iowa bar and aboard the Enterprise, including Kirk's large-eyed Kobayashi Maru companion and the long-faced officer in the shuttle.
He shared the Academy Award for Best Makeup for the film with Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, the first Oscar won by any Star Trek production.