ICYMI: Makeup and Hairstylists Guild Winners
Monday, February 21, 2022 at 5:30PM
NATHANIEL R in Being the Ricardos, Best Makeup, Coming 2 America, Cruella, Dune, Makeup and Hair, Mike Marino

by Nathaniel R

Mike Marino, who assisted Rick Baker for years, working on prosthetics for Coming 2 America

The Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild held their awards this past Saturday so you might have already heard who won. The big winner was Amazon's Coming 2 America which won three prizes: Contemporary Makeup, Contemporary Hairstyling, and (most surprisingly given the competition) Special Effects Makeup. This does not necessarily mean it's going to win the Oscar as it has formidable competition from Cruella and Dune and the voting body is different. The winners are after the jump...

FILM

MOTION PICTURE Best Contemporary Make-Up

The only film to win both this prize and the Oscar was Bombshell (2019). If the Coming 2 America teams goes on to win the Oscar it will be the second year in a row when the prize went to a team that was two-thirds African-Americans. That would not be noteworthy to type out in and of itself except that last year was the first time ever that African-Americans were nominated at the Oscars in that particular category!  

MOTION PICTURE Best Period and/or Character Make-Up


The winner of this category often goes on to win the Oscar. Past examples have included Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Vice (2018), Darkest Hour (2017), Suicide Squad (2016), Mad Max Fury Road (2015), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

MOTION PICTURE Best Special Make-Up Effects 

This is a big get for Coming 2 America which is not a visual effects movie or a biopic (the kind of films that usually win this category) - Vulture has a good piece on the prosthetics work on this film. The past years when Oscar and MUAHS have shared the winner of 'special makeup effects' are Bombshell (2019), Vice (2018), Darkest Hour (2017), and Mad Max Fury Road (2015).

MOTION PICTURE Best Contemporary Hair Styling

MOTION PICTURE Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling


Hilariously the winner, Being the Ricardos, was the only one of these that did not make the Oscar finals in this category.

It's a reminder that Guild Awards have different voting bodies than the Academy though the internet often likes to conflate the two suggesting that all Guild members are Academy members (which is very much untrue). Guilds have hundreds to tens of thousands of working members (depending on the guild) while each Academy branch has a much smaller group of voters since the whole Academy has only 10,700 members across all disciplines.

ICYMI -- My personal ballot in this category
OSCAR CHARTS - all visual categories

TELEVISION PRIZES

SERIES Best Contemporary Make-up

SERIES Best Period and/or Character Make-Up 

SERIES Best Special Make-Up Effects

SERIES Best Contemporary Hair Styling

SERIES Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

 

SPECIAL FOR TELEVISION Best Contemporary Make-Up

SPECIAL FOR TELEVISION Best Period and/or Character Make-Up

SPECIAL FOR TELEVISION Best Special Make-up Effects

SPECIAL FOR TELEVISION Best Contemporary Hair Styling

SPECIAL FOR TELEVISION Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

DAYTIME TELEVISION Best Make-Up

DAYTIME TELEVISION Best Hair Styling

CHILDREN AND TEEN TELEVISION PROGRAMMING Best Make-Up

 

CHILDREN AND TEEN TELEVISION PROGRAMMING Best Hair Styling

 

COMMERCIALS & MUSIC VIDEOS Best Make-Up

 

COMMERCIALS & MUSIC VIDEOS Best Hair Styling

THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS Best Make-up

THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS  Best Hair Styling

So many of these prizes are a reminder of why Makeup and Hairstyling don't have separate categories at the Oscars. As with Sound Mixing and Sound Editing (now conjoined with Oscars), the guilds themselves don't often seem able to differentiate between the two even though it's literally their profession! Note that in almost all cases here whatever won Best Makeup also won Best Hairstyling. And Saturday Night Live somehow won Period, Contemporary, and Special Effects Makeup... suggesting that maybe they need to work a little harder in differentiating their category eligibility requirements. 

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