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 will be nominated.
Daniel and The Towers is a television film featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers, and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.
Claire Simpson is a British film editor whose work has been honored with an Academy Award and a BAFTA Film Award for Best Editing for The Constant Gardener. She was mentored by Dede Allen and in turn mentored such notable and renowned Academy Award-winning film editors such as Pietro Scalia, David Brenner, Joe Hutshing and Julie Monroe. She also worked as editor of Oliver Stone's Salvador and Wall Street.
Tony Gardner is an American makeup and special effects designer. He has designed and created effects for many feature films, including the films Zombieland, 127 Hours, Smokin' Aces, Hairspray, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, The Addams Family, Seed of Chucky,Shallow Hal and There's Something About Mary. Gardner helped create the signature helmets for Daft Punk, as well as an animatronic robot for their "Technologic" music video. He wrote and directed Daft Punk's music video for the song "The Prime Time of Your Life" and associate produced and populated a world full of robots for the duo's feature-length directorial debut, Daft Punk's Electroma. Beyond the film-making arena, Gardner's special effects company Alterian, Inc. has also designed and created the popular GEICO Cavemen characters as well as the current iteration of Smokey Bear. Alterian's makeup effects for Johnny Knoxville's character in Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa were nominated for an Academy Award as well as a Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award, and won the Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award for Best Special Makeup Effects in the Feature Film category for 2014.
Michael P Reitz is a film and TV hair stylist. He currently occupies the position of department head hair stylist at Star Request Film and Television, where he has worked on a number of high-profile productions.
This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair, which is presented to make-up artists and hairstylists, given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1982.
Nick Dudman is a British make-up effects and creature designer for motion pictures.
Mark Coulier is a British make-up artist and prosthetic makeup expert, who has worked in Harry Potter film series, X-Men and The Mummy Returns.
J. Roy Helland is a make-up artist.
Gail Ryan is a film and television hairdresser.
Stephen Prouty is a makeup effects artist for film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013).
Peter King, also known as Peter Swords King, is a British Oscar-winning makeup artist who won at the 2003 Academy Awards for Best Makeup for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. He shared the award with filmmaker Richard Taylor. He was nominated again at the 2012 Academy Awards for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Tina Earnshaw is an Oscar and Bafta nominated British make up designer and the founder of Tina Earnshaw Cosmetics. Tina has designed the make up looks on some of the worlds most successful films including Titanic, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award, alongside Greg Cannom and Simon Thompson.
The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild is an American labor union representing make-up artists and hair stylist in feature films, television programs, commercials, live network events and theatrical productions in the United States. The members of the union have been acknowledged by various honorary organizations dedicated to the arts, and have won numerous Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, BAFTAs, Saturn Awards. Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild is Local 798 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
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.
Richard Alonzo is a make-up artist. Known for his work on critically acclaimed films, The Sixth Sense (1999), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Iron Man (2008), Avatar (2009) and Star Trek Beyond (2016) for which he received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at 89th Academy Awards with Joel Harlow.
Kazu Hiro is an American special make-up effects artist and visual artist. He won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for the biographical film Darkest Hour (2017) after earning nominations for the comedies Norbit (2007) and Click (2006).
The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Award for Best Special Make-Up Effects in a Feature-Length Motion Picture is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS). It is presented to makeup artists who work in Special Effects makeup, or "Prosthetic makeup", whose work has been deemed "best" in a given year. The award was first given in 2000, during the first annual awards, and was given when the awards were brought back in 2014.
