82nd Academy Awards: Best Makeup nominations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards.

The nominees for Best Makeup are:
Il Divo
Aldo Signoretti & Vittorio Sodano
Star Trek
Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, & Joel Harlow
The Young Victoria
Jon Henry Gordon & Jenny Shircore.

The Oscars ceremony will be held on 7 March.

IMATS London

Ticket purchased; bag packed; train ticket in wallet. Hope to meet some of you there on Saturday — shame Bill Corso was moved to Sunday, I was hoping to see him and Neill Gorton.

Orange British Academy Film Awards: the nominees

This morning the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced the nominations for the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards.

The nominees for Best Makeup & Hair are:
Coco Before Chanel
Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen & Jane Milon
An Educationn
Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
The Imaginarum of Doctor Parnassus
Sarah Monzani
Nine
Peter ‘Swords’ King
The Young Victoria
Jenny Shircore.

The Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony will take place on 21 February in London.

XXIV Premios Goya: the nominees

The Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España has published the nominations for the XXIV Premios Goya (Goya Awards).

The nominations in the makeup-related categories are:

Mejor maquillaje y peluquería:
Ágora
Jan Sewell & Suzanne Stokes-Munton
Celda 211
Raquel Fidalgo & Inés Rodríguez
El cónsul de Sodoma
José Antonio Sánchez & Paquita Núñez
Los abrazos rotos
Ana Lozano & Massimo Gattabrusi.

Mejores efectos especiales:
Ágora
Chris Reynolds & Félix Bergés
Celda 211
Raúl Romanillos & Guillermo Orbé
[REC] 2
Salvador Santana & Álex Villagrasa
Spanish Movie
Pau Costa & Lluís Castells.

Celda 211 has a total of sixteen nominations and Ágora has thirteen — both including Best Film and Best Director; the other nominations for Best Film and Best Director are El baile de la Victoria (which is also Spain’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar) and El secreto de sus ojos. Los abrazos rotos has five nominations, including Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay.

The winners will be announced on 14 February.

82nd Academy Awards: Best Makeup shortlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the seven movies shortlisted for the Best Makeup category for the 82nd Academy Awards.

The movies are, in alphabetical order:
District 9
Il Divo
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The Road
Star Trek
The Young Victoria.

Members of the Academy’s Makeup Branch will be invited to view excerpts from each of the shortlisted movies on 23 January; after the screenings they will vote to nominate three movies for final Oscar consideration. The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on 2 February.

The Oscars ceremony will be held on 7 March.

PS 12/01/2010: No individual makeup artists were named in the Academy press release; individual nominees will be confirmed on 23 January. Nominees are limited to a maximum of three per movie. When the rules were changed two examples were given where three nominees would be appropriate: the general case where there are three separate areas of responsibility (Makeup, Special Makeup Effects, and Hairstyling); and the particular case of The Grinch where Kazuhiro Tsuji both sculpted the creation and applied the Grinch’s makeup every day but was not included in the nominations under the then existing rules.

RIP: Brittany Murphy

Earlier today TMZ and other sites started to report the death of Brittany Murphy, and the story has now been confirmed and picked up by the MSM.

I suspect that this is going to be ‘a story’.

Whatever, it is mostly a moment of sadness — for the loss of an all-too-young and talented actress who for whatever reason never fulfilled her potential, and especially for her family and friends.

Happy Xmas

Merry Xmas and a a happy New Year everybody.