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2011 Best Makeup Nominees Announced
The 2011 Academy Awards nominees for Best Makeup have been announced!
The Wolfman
Is Rick Baker ever not on the nominee list at the Oscars? This year, he and Dave Elsey are among the three films nominated for the prestigious award.
The Way Back
Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng are nominated for The Way Back, a film about escaped prisoners that must walk 4,000 miles through Siberia, into India. The artists on set had to simulate injury, disease, and starvation while taking into account the extreme weather conditions the characters face, while staying true to the 1940′s time period. Wow.
Barney’s Version
Adrien Morot is on the list of nominees for his work in Barney’s Version. Morot did a fantastic job at gradually aging Paul Giamatti’s character by 40 years.
Academy Awards 2010 Best Makeup Nominees
IL Divo, Star Trek and The Young Victoria Compete for Best Makeup
So many important awards are easily overlooked each year at the Oscars. We all want to know who is going to win Best Actress, or which film earns the coveted title of Best Picture. While I do understand it’s easiest for us to relate to the celebrities on screen, there would be no movie without the crew, costumers and of course makeup artists behind the scenes. Naturally, the “Best Achievement in Makeup” has always been the award I look forward to the most.
Tomorrow, three Makeup Departments will be up for the golden statue. Take a minute to learn a little about each one before the big show!!
The Young Victoria starring Emily Blunt is one of the three films nominated for Best Makeup Already a BAFTA winner, this film appears to be the one to beat. Jenny Shircore, the film’s Makeup Department Head, has also won an Academy Award for the movie Elizabeth in 1998. She seems to be a master of period films and always keeps the makeup very authentic to it’s time.
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Barney Burman, Joel Harlow and Mindy Hall are nominated for their makeup in last year’s Star Trek. This is the first Oscar nomination for all three artists! I must say, Spock’s skin and eyebrows (above) look divine 
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Makeup artists Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano transformed actor Toni Servillo into former Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti in Il Divo. Both makeup artists were nominated in 2006 for Apocalypto and Vittorio Sodano was nominated in 2001′s Moulin Rouge.
So who will the Academy Award go to? Be sure to watch tomorrow, March 7, 2010 on ABC.
What are your predicitions??
