Coming 2 America Dominates Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards

Amazon Studios’ Coming 2 America has dominated this year’s awards from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild with a clean sweep of wins in all three of its categories. The film took home Best Contemporary Make-Up, Best Special Make-Up Effects, and Best Contemporary Hair Styling, which could suggest it’s a strong player for the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Elsewhere, Cruella won for Best Period and/or Character Make-Up, while Being the Ricardos scored Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling.

Winners in bold below.

Best Contemporary Make-Up, Feature-Length Motion Picture

Black Widow (Paul Gooch, Paula Price, Deborah LaMia Denaver)
Coming 2 America (Merc Arceneaux, Vera Steimberg, Trent Simmons, Caroline Monge)
Don’t Look Up (Liz Bernstrom, Julie LeShane, Claudia Moriel, Joseph Dulude ll)
No Time to Die (Daniel Phillips)
The Suicide Squad (Heba Thorisdottir, Greg Funk, Sabrina Wilson, Jillian Erickson)

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up, Feature-Length Motion Picture

Being the Ricardos (Ana Lozano, David Craig Forrest, Kyra Panchenko, Denise Paulson)
Cruella (Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne, Guy Common)
Dune (Donald Mowat, Jo-Ann MacNeil, Rocky Faulkner, Jennifer Stanfield)
House of Gucci (Jana Carboni, Sarah Tanno, Daniel Lawson Johnston, Stefania Pellegini)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Linda Dowds, Ashleigh Chavis-Wolfe, Renee Goodwin)

Best Special Make-Up Effects, Feature-Length Motion Picture

Coming 2 America (Mike Marino, Michael Fontaine, Yoichi Art Sakamoto, Diana Choi)
Dune (Donald Mowat, Love Larson, Eva von Bahr, Rocky Faulkner)
House of Gucci (Göran Lundström, Federica Castelli)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Justin Raleigh, Kelly Golden, Chris Hampton, Thom Floutz)
The Suicide Squad (Shane Mahan, Brian Sipe, Matt Sprunger, Greg Funk)

Best Contemporary Hair Styling, Feature-Length Motion Picture

Coming 2 America (Stacey Morris, Carla Farmer, Louisa Anthony, Victor Paz)
In The Heights (Betsy Reyes, Valerie Velez, Annemarie Bradley-Sherron, Diedre Harris)
No Time to Die (Daniel Phillips)
The Matrix Resurrections (Flora Moody, Shunika Terry, Kerrie Smith)
The Suicide Squad (Janine Rath-Thompson, Michelle Diamantides, Melizah Wheat, Kristen Saia)

Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling, Feature-Length Motion Picture

Being the Ricardos (Teressa Hill, Yvonne De Patis-Kupka Lindy Dunn, Kim Santantonio)
Cruella (Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne, Julia Vernon)
House of Gucci (Giuliano Mariano, Frederic Aspiras, Alexis Continente, Anna Carin Lock)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Stephanie Ingram, Betty Lou Skinner, Heather Hawkins, Bryson Conley)
West Side Story (Kay Georgiou, Jerry DeCarlo)

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.