American make-up effects artist who shared the Academy Award for Best Makeup for Star Trek in 2009, the only Oscar won by a Star Trek film, and returned for Star Trek Beyond.
Joel Harlow is an American make-up and prosthetics artist, also known for his long association with the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
On Star Trek in 2009 he headed the make-up department and was responsible in particular for the tattooed Romulans led by Nero and for the Vulcans. He shared the Academy Award for Best Makeup with Barney Burman and Mindy Hall. It remains the only Oscar ever won by a Star Trek production.
Harlow returned for Star Trek Beyond in 2016, for which his team created dozens of new alien designs to populate the starbase Yorktown and the planet Altamid, including Jaylah and Krall. The work brought him another Academy Award nomination, shared with Richard Alonzo.