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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.
Paul LeBlanc was a Canadian Academy Award-winning hairstylist who won at the 1984 Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Amadeus. He shared the Oscar with Dick Smith.
Damian Martin is an Australian make-up artist specializing in prosthetic and creature makeup. He worked with Jim Henson's Creature Shop on the TV series Farscape and has worked on such films as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. In 2016, he won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling along with Elka Wardega and Lesley Vanderwalt at the 88th Academy Awards for his work on the movie Mad Max: Fury Road. He was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair in the 69th British Academy Film Awards.
Elka Wardega is an Australian makeup artist specializing in prosthetic makeup. She worked on the TV series Farscape and has worked on such films as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Moulin Rouge!, and the three The Chronicles of Narnia films produced by Walden Media. In 2016, she won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling along with Damian Martin and Lesley Vanderwalt at the 88th Academy Awards for her prosthetic work on the movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
Love Larson is a Swedish make-up artist and hair stylist. He is best known for his works in Skyfall (2012), The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013), A Man Called Ove (2015), and Dune (2021). He received his first Oscar nomination Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 88th Academy Awards along with Eva von Bahr.
Eva Elisabet von Bahr is a Swedish make-up artist and hair stylist. She is best known for her works in Arn: The Knight Templar (2007), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013), and A Man Called Ove (2015), Dune (2021). She received her first Oscar nomination Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 88th Academy Awards along with Love Larson.
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).
Bombshell is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. The film stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and is based on the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment. John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles. Bombshell's box office results were seen as disappointing, earning $61 million on a $32 million budget, but the film received mostly favorable reviews. It garnered praise for its acting as well as its choices of makeup and hair, which won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while earning some criticism of the screenplay and inaccuracies in the plot and character portrayals.
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2019 and took place on February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Stephanie Allain and Lynette Howell Taylor and was directed by Glenn Weiss. Three months earlier in a ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood held on October 27, 2019, the Academy held its 11th Annual Governors Awards ceremony.
Mia Neal is an American hair stylist. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Sergio López-Rivera is a Spanish make-up artist. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Jamika Wilson is an American make-up artist. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Vivian Baker is an American make-up artist. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Bombshell. She also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup.
Kimberley Spiteri is an American make-up artist. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Mank. Spiteri also won an Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for five more in the category Outstanding Hairstyling for her work on the television programs Six Feet Under, The Originals, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and television films Ike: Countdown to D-Day and Deadwood: The Movie.
Kate Biscoe is an American make-up artist. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Vice.
Patricia Dehaney is an American make-up artist. She won an Academy Award and was nominated for one more in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the films Vice and Hillbilly Elegy.
Marese Langan is a British make-up artist. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Emma.
Stacey Morris is an American barber and hairdresser. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film Coming 2 America. Morris was also nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards, one Critics Choice Award, seven MUAHS Awards with two wins, in the category Outstanding Hairstyling. Stacey has worked as a stylist on 87 notable productions, starting on classic TV shows like Martin and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The styles executed in Dolemite Is My Name currently appear on exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California.
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.
Stephanie Ingram is a Canadian make-up artist. She won an Academy Award in the category Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the film The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
References
- ↑ Giardina, Carolyn (February 9, 2020). "Oscars: 'Bombshell' Wins Makeup and Hair Styling Award". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 3, 2022.
- ↑ "The 92nd Academy Awards (2020) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Retrieved March 3, 2022.
- ↑ Hayes, Dade (February 9, 2020). "'Bombshell' Completes Fox News Trip With Oscar Win For Makeup And Hairstyling". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 3, 2022.
