Multi-award-winning Love Larson is one of Scandinavia's most reputed and highly skilled Special Makeup Effects Artists. He is an expert at creating specific tasks such as body parts, aging makeup, blood, dirt, masks and molding.
Love has a Makeup Degree from The Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art (now Stockholm University of the Arts) and a certificate from Dick Smith's Advanced Professional Make-Up Course. Over the years, he has gathered many nominations and awards, such as Oscar nominees for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling for Dune: Part one, Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared) and En man som heter Ove. (A man called Ove). Love is also a proud keeper of three Guldbagge Statuettes.
Larson runs “The Makeup Designers Stockholm” together with makeup-designer Eva von Bahr.
An extraordinary studio where they create and manufactures SFX pieces like monsters, robots, animals, burns to international films. This is also the place where you find everything you need for a great makeup and SFX production.
2025 Bafta Film Festival Nominee - Best Make up & Hair ’’Dune: Part Two’’ 2024 Guldbagge - Best Makeup Design "The Conference" 2022 Oscars nominee - Best Hair & Makeup Design “Dune” 2022 Bafta Film Festival nominee - Best Hair & Makeup Design “Dune” 2022 Hollywood Critic Association nominee - Best Hair & Makeup Design “Dune” 2020 Guldbagge - Best Makeup Design “Nelly Rapp - Monsteragenten” 2017 Oscar Nominee - Best Makeup Design “A man called Ove” 2017 Guldbagge - Best Makeup Design “Jätten” 2016 Guldbagge Nominee - Best Makeup Design “Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann" 2016 Oscar Nominee - Best Make up Design “The hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared” 2016 Guldbagge - Best Makeup Design “A man called Ove” 2014 Guldbagge - Best Makeup Design “The hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared” 2013 Guldbagge - Best Makeup design “Monica Z” 2013 CLUB-100 - “Äkta Människor” (Real Humans)
Directors
Aaron Moorhead, Amanda Adolfsson, Anne Sewitsky, Björn Runge, Björn Stein, Bill Skarsgård, Bryan Singer, Charlotte Brändström, Daniel Espinosa, Daniel Alfredson, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Espen Sandberg, Felix Herngren, Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson, Goran Kapetanović, Hannes Holm, Henrik Sundgen, Jakob Dahlström, Jesper Ericstam, Johan Brisinger, Johan Rosell, Johannes Nyholm, Jonas Alexander Arnby, Josef Fares, Justin Benson, Kristina Humle, Landon Liboiron, Lars von Trier, Lukas Hammar, Martin Sjöström, Max Vitali, Mikael Håfström, Milad Alami, Mohamed Diab, Måns Mårlind, Niels Arden Oplev, Oskar Mellander, Patrik Eklund, Patrik Forsberg, Peter Flinth, Robert Nylund, Roni Ezra, Sam Mendes, Simon Kaijser, Steven Caple Jr., Tomas Alfredson, Tord Danielsson
Production Companies
Acne, Anagram Sweden, Arad Productions, Atlantique Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Breidablick Film, Chernin Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, David E. Kelley Productions, Eon Productions, Filmlance International, Fladen Film, FLX, Garagefilm International, GK Films, Ill Kippers Productions, Imaginarium Productions, Juniper Productions, Legendary Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, Matador Film, Marvel Studios, Memfis, MGM, Miso Film, Motion Blur, New Regency Pictures, Nexiko Drama, Nice Drama, Northern Fable, Plan B Entertainment, SAM Productions, SF Studios, Social Club, Sony Pictures, StellaNova, SVT, The Producers, Tre Vänner, Warner Bros, Working Title Films, Yellow Bird, Zentropa Entertainments
Dune, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bränn alla mina brev, Andra sidan, Nelly Rapp - Monsteragenten, Luftslottet som sprängdes, Amundsen, Tårtgeneralen, The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared, Monica Z, Skyfall, Arn, MilleniumTrilogy -The Girl with the DragonTattoo, Låt den rätte komma in, Mammoth, Himlen är oskyldigt blå, Zozo, Skammerens datter, A man called Ove, Jätten
TV Series
Blood Cruise, Stenbeck, The Unlikley Muderer, Systrar 1968, Höök, BBC Wallander, Häxan Surtant, Melodifestivalen, Ingen bor i skogen, Real Humans, Krakel Spektakel