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Website. oscars.org. 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.
* Art Direction - Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo * Cinematography - Robert Richardson * Sound Editing - Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
- Oscar winning makeup artists. An American Werewolf in London (1981) The groundbreaking transformation scene. There were two main factors that led to the Academy Awards adding the Best Makeup category: first, an outpouring of wishes for The Elephant Man’s makeup to have been honored when it wasn’t.
- Oscar winner for best makeup. The Fly (1986) A quick taste of the body horror in The Fly. If there is one director who is synonymous with “body horror,” it is David Cronenberg.
- Best makeup Academy Awards. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) An impressive blend of makeup, miniatures, and other SPFX. Each of the Lord of the Rings films is deserving of the Best Makeup Oscar at the Academy Awards.
- Best makeup Oscar. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) The iconic “Pale Man” Guillermo Del Toro’s films have always been home to imaginative makeup and special effects creations.
- Creation of The Category
- Requirements and Eligibility
- Narrowing The Field
- Notable Winners
Prior to the creation of the Best Makeup category, two makeup artists received Academy Honorary Awards for their advances in cinema makeup. The first was longtime MGM makeup artist William J. Tuttle, who received his award for the makeup in 1964’s 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, which featured actor Tony Randall as seven vastly different-looking characters. Th...
The Academy's current rules for the category are as follows: While virtually all films use professional makeup artists and hairstylists, the work is expected to be of extraordinary quality in order to be considered eligible for the award. The names of up to three artists from a film can appear on a submission, and the Executive Committee of the Aca...
In the current rules (established for the 76th Academy Awards in 2004), the Executive Committee of the Academy's Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch select seven films per year with extraordinary makeup and hairstyling as a shortlist that the entire membership of the Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch votes on at a presentation event held in...
In some instances, films that normally would not typically be considered “Oscar-worthy” movies by critics or audiences have become Oscar-winning films because of wins in the Best Makeup category. These include Harry and the Hendersons (1987), The Nutty Professor (1996), The Wolfman (2010), and Suicide Squad(2016). Rick Baker, who won the inaugural ...
Mar 9, 2024 · The 62nd annual Academy Awards awarded “Driving Miss Daisy” the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. The honors went to Kevin Haney, Lynn Barber and Manilo Rocchetti. “Driving Miss Daisy ...
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Jan 24, 2012 · "Hugo" and "The Artist" topped the 84th Academy Awards with five wins apiece. The Oscars aired Sunday, Feb. 26 on ABC.
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