Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
First awarded | 1981 |
Most recent winner | Nadia Stacey Mark Coulier Josh Weston Poor Things (2023) |
Website | oscars |
The Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is the Academy Award given to the best achievement in makeup and hairstyling for film. Traditionally, three films have been nominated each year with exceptions in the early 1980s and 2002 when there were only two nominees; in 1999, when there were four nominees. Beginning with the 92nd Academy Awards, five films were nominated. [1]
The competitive category was created in 1981 as the Academy Award for Best Makeup, after the academy received complaints that the makeup work in The Elephant Man (1980) was not being honored. Although no award was given to The Elephant Man, an entire category dedicated to honoring makeup effects in film was created for subsequent ceremonies. Previously, makeup artists were only eligible for special achievement awards for their work.
Ahead of nominations, a shortlist of titles is chosen by the makeup branch's executive committee and clips are screened by the members of the branch at an annual "bake-off." After only two films were shortlisted in 2002, rules were installed requiring that seven finalists be chosen each year with the top three becoming nominees. Beginning in 2020, the shortlist expanded from seven finalists to ten. [1]
In 2012, the category was given its current name for use in the 85th Academy Awards and onward. [2] [3] Makeup artist Rick Baker holds the record for both most wins (7) and most nominations (11) for this award.
Before 1981, Special Achievement Oscars were twice awarded to makeup artists for their work on a specific film:
Starting in 1993, the award is to be shared with hairstylists if hair effects "contribute greatly to the appearance and effect of the characters". [6]
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are always held the following year. Films in dark blue background have received a Special/Honorary Award; those in yellow background have won a regular Academy Award of Merit.
Year | Film | Nominees |
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1964 (37th) | 7 Faces of Dr. Lao | William J. Tuttle |
1968 (41st) | ||
Planet of the Apes | John Chambers |
Finalists for Best Makeup & Hairstyling are selected by the Makeup & Hairstylists Branch. Ten films are shortlisted. [16] Prior to the 92nd Academy Awards, up to seven films were shortlisted. [17] The full membership of the Makeup & Hairstylists Branch is invited to view excerpts and is provided with supporting information at a "bake-off" where balloting determines the five nominees. These are the additional films that presented at the bake-off.
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Record | Makeup artist | Film | Age |
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Oldest winner | J. Roy Helland | The Iron Lady | 69 years, 29 days |
Oldest nominee | Gigi Williams | Mank | 70-71 years |
Youngest winner | Rick Baker | An American Werewolf in London | 31 years, 111 days |
Youngest nominee | Rob Bottin | Legend | 27 years, 316 days |
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated film. An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.
The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects. It has been handed to four members of the team directly responsible for creating the film's visual effects since 1980.
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. Copies of every winning film are held by the Academy Film Archive.
The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarded to the specific technicians, the first of which were Murray Spivack and Jack Solomon for Hello, Dolly!. It is generally awarded to the production sound mixers, re-recording mixers, and supervising sound editors of the winning film. In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. Before the 93rd Academy Awards, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing were separate categories.
Michael O'Connor is an English costume designer. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design three times, winning for The Duchess (2008).
Colleen Callaghan was an Academy Awards-nominated hair stylist who has been nominated twice for Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. She worked on over 120 films and TV shows during her long career.
Kazu Hiro is a Japanese-born American special make-up effects artist and visual artist. He won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the biographical films Darkest Hour (2017) and Bombshell (2019) after earning nominations for the comedies Click (2006) and Norbit (2007).
Naomi Donne is a British make-up artist. She has been nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the films 1917, Cruella, and The Batman.
Kay Georgiou is an American make-up artist. She was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the films Joker and Maestro.
Linda Dowds is a Canadian-British make-up artist. She is best known for her work on The Eyes of Tammy Faye, True Detective, The Kennedys and Grey Gardens.
Nadia Stacey is a British make-up artist. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for another one in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the films Cruella and Poor Things.
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