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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts have now confirmed the full list of nominees in the Best Makeup category. They are:
The Devil Wears Prada
Nicki Ledermann & Angel De Angelis
Marie Antoinette
Jean-Luc Russier & Desiree Corridoni
Pan’s Labyrinth
José Quetglas & Blanca Sánchez
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Ve Neill & Martin Samuel
The Queen
Daniel Phillips.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences  announced the Oscar nominations at lunchtime today (UK time). The three movies nominated in the Best Makeup category are:
Apocalypto
Aldo Signoretti & Vittorio Sodano
Click
Kazuhiro Tsuji & Bill Corso
Pan’s Labyrinth
David Marti & Montse Ribé.

Of the movies shortlisted these would have been my nominees.

I haven’t seen the full list yet but Pan’s Labyrinth still seems to be in the running for a fair number of Oscars.

The Oscars will be announced on 25 February.

I’m the process of moving previous posts across from the old themakeupgallery blog.

All future posts will be posted here only, and the old blog will be deleted after a couple of months.

The nominations for the XXI Premios Goya have been announced: the winners will be announced on 28th January 2007. The nominees are:

Best Makeup & Hairdressing
Alatriste
José Luis Pérez
El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth)
José Quetglas & Blanca Sánchez
Los fantasma de Goya (Goya’s Ghosts)
Ivana Primorac, Susana Sánchez & Manuel García
Volver
Ana Lozano & Massimo Gattabrusi.

Special Effects
Alatriste
Reyes Abades & Rafael Solorzanor
El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth)
David Martí, Montse Ribe, Reyes Abades, Everett Burrell, Edward Irastorza & Emilio Ruiz
Los fantasma de Goya (Goya’s Ghosts)
Reyes Abades, Félix Berges & Eduardo Díaz
Salvador
Juan Ramón Molina & Ferrán Piquer.

I’m not sure what the Special Effects category encompasses; I recognise some of the names (eg David Martí of DDT Efectos Especiales) as makeup artists but not others.

The nominees for this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have been announced and the contenters for Best Makeup/Hair are:
The Devil Wears Prada
Nicki Ledermann & Angel De Angelis
Marie Antoinette
Jean-Luc Russier & Desiree Corridoni
Pan’s Labyrinth
TBC
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Ve Neill & Martin Samuel
The Queen
Daniel Phillips.

This year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards ceremony will be held on 11 February 2007 at the Royal Opera House in London.

I’m pleased that four movies I’ve really enjoyed have garnered a goodly batch of nominations each: The Queen (10), Pan’s Labyrinth (8), Babel (7), The Last King of Scotland (5), and Volver (only 2, but they are Best Actress & Best Foreign Movie).

But does Casino Royale really deserve nine nominations? It may be the best Bond film since Connery but that only indicates how bad the others were. And what about Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan? The funniest movie of the year surely deserved not to be snubbed even if they had to invent a special category (Most Offensive Character in Movie History?).

Sadly, sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, the designer of the BAFTA mask, died on 29 December 2006. The mask was commissioned in 1955 by Andrew Miller-Jones of the [then] Guild of Television Producers, which later merged with the British Film Academy to become BAFTA.