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BAFTA Cymru announced the winners of the 17th Annual BAFTA Cymru Awards on 27 April in Cardiff.

The winners for Best Makeup are:
Doctor Who ‘The Shakespeare Code’
Barbara Southcott & Neill Gorton (Millennium FX).

I loved that episode of Doctor Who and those alien witches were brilliant. But the budgets for Doctor Who and hence the production values so outweigh those of shows produced for the local market — especially Welsh language productions — that it it hardly a level playing field in any of the craft & design categories.

This years’ winners of the Hong Kong Film Awards have now been announced.

The winners for Best Costume & Makeup Design are:
The Warlords / Tau ming chong
Yee Chung-Man, Jessie Dai Mei-Ling & Lee Pik-Kwan.

The Warlords was the night’s big winner, clinching eight out of eighteen possible awards, including Best Film, Best Director for Peter Chan, and Best actor for Jet Li. Lust, Caution, which did not qualify as a Hong Kong film, won the best Asian Film Award.

I loved the modesty of Jet Li’s acceptance speech: ‘If I had not made a lot of kung fu films, I could have won the best actor award 20 years ago.’”

BAFTA Cymru have announced the Nominations Shortlist for their 2008 Awards Ceremony, which will be held at the Wales Millennium Centre on 27 April.

The nominees for Best Makeup are:
Calon Gaeth
Teresa Kelly
Doctor Who ‘The Shakespeare Code’
Barbara Southcott & Neill Gorton (Millennium FX)
The History of Mr Polly
Carole Williams.

I loved that episode of Doctor Who and those alien witches were brilliant. But the budgets for Doctor Who and hence the production values must so outweigh those of shows produced for the local market — especially Welsh language productions — that it it hardly a level playing field in any of the craft & design categories.

Does anyone have any information on this in-your-shoes TV show currently showing in Denmark. The show, which features radical makeup transformations by Per Kapper, appears to be based on The Big Experiment format which oiginated in New Zealand.

Any images would be particularly appreciated.

These are some of the Spanish — and Portuguese — language websites that I browse through regularly while trawling for interesting new movie makeups:

DDT Efectos Especiales: David Marti and Montse Ribé, Pan’s Labyrinth, Oscar — nuff said. 

Plan 9 FX: Oscar Del Monte and Nacho Diaz have a brand-new website with lots of new images of their work, including a batch of celebrity transformations from the TV show Anónimos. Recently, they’ve been working on Steven Soderbergh’s Guerrilla.  

Mario Campioli: Mario Campioli is based in Brazil so, apart from Olga, I’ve managed to see little of his work either on screen or on DVD.

Dharma Estudio: Arturo Balseiro’s website; he has also worked for DDT and others.

Inside FX: Inside FX were nominated for a Best Special Effects Goya for their work on [REC].

maquiarte: Spanish makeup news and forum — sadly, the news is not updated as frequently as it used to be.