Month: January 2019

The MUAHS Guild splits up their Make-Up Awards and their Hair Style Awards which make them harder to predict. Keep checking in for David’s Oscar Nomination piece which will dive into all the Guilds and what you can take away from them! Here’s this year’s nominees along with last years, and last year’s Oscar noms.

The nominees are:

Best Contemporary Makeup:
A Star is Born
Beautiful Boy
Boy Erased
Crazy Rich Asians
Welcome to Marwen
Widows

Best Contemporary Hair Styling:
A Star is Born
Crazy Rich Asians
Nappily Ever After
Vox Lux
Widows

Best Period Makeup:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots
Stan & Ollie
Vice

Best Period Hair Styling:
Black Panther
BlackKklansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

Best Special Makeup Effects:
Aquaman
Black Panther
Stan & Ollie
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Vice

And last year’s nominiees:

Best Contemporary Makeup:
Baby Driver
The Big Sick
Ghost in the Shell
Pitch Perfect 3
Wonder

Best Contemporary Hair Styling:
The Big Sick
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Pitch Perfect 3
Wonder

Best Period Makeup:
Blade Runner 2049
Bright
Darkest Hour
The Greatest Showman
I, Tonya

Best Period Hair Styling:
Atomic Blonde
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
I, Tonya

Best Special Makeup Effects:
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Darkest Hour
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Wonder

and the Academy Award nominees for Makeup and Hair Styling were:
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder


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The Director’s Guild has announced their film nominations and we know just as much as we did before they were announced.

Their feature film nominations are:

Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
Peter Farrely – Green Book
Spike Lee – BlackKklansman
Adam McKay – Vice

And the first timers:

Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
Carlos Lopez Estrada – Blindspotting
Matthew Heineman – A Private War
Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You

Going back to 2013 you might think we have just learned that Peter Farrely or Adam McKay are getting an Oscar nomination (Cooper, Cuaron, and to an extent Lee, are pretty locked up at this point). You might think that because every year from 2013 on has seen exactly one DGA nom get replaced by the Academy Awards. They have been:

2017: Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards) replaced by Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
2016: Garth Davis (Lion) replaced by Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
2015: Ridley Scott (The Martian) replaced by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
2014: Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) replaced by Bennet Miller (Foxcatcher)
2013: Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) replaced by Alexander Payne (Nebraska)

Looking at this data one could surmise that all you have to do is pick one of Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) or Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) to replace one of Farrely and McKay. But then you look at 2012. A bizarre year for Directors indeed:

DGA:
Ben Affleck (Argo)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Tom Hooper (Les Mis)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

Oscars:
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Michael Haneke (Amour)
David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

So obviously anything can happen. If you are filling out nomination ballots make sure Cuaron and Cooper are on it and roll the dice. Coogler and Lanthimos have legitimate shots at nominations, just like Farrely and McKay.