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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held the 80th Oscars ceremony last night (long after my bedtime).

The winners for Best Makeup were:
La Môme / La Vie en Rose
Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald.

Great result; as I said in an earlier posting, I was cheering for La Môme — and for Marion Cotillard who inhabited Piaf’s personna. It’s just a shame that the nomination rules did not allow the work of David White and Altered States FX on Marion’s prosthetics to be recognised as well. I’d have voted for the other acting award winners too, and the Best Picture and Best Director winners. I’m glad Juno got something too — and justifiably well done at the Spirit Awards.

The full list of winners and nominees is on the Oscars website.

This years’ nominations were announced on 02 February 2008. The Awards Ceremony will be held in Hong Kong on 13th April 2008.

The nominations for Best Costume & Makeup Design are:
The Detective / C+ jing taam
Surasak Warakitcharoen
Blood Brothers / Tian tang kou
Tim Yip Kam-Tim
The Warlords / Tau ming chong
Yee Chung-Man, Jessie Dai Mei-Ling & Lee Pik-Kwan
The Postmodern Life of my Aunt / Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo
Ma Yu-Tao
Mad Detective / Sun taam
Stanley Cheung Sai-Kit.

Derek Yee Tung-Sing’s Protege (Moon to) leads the way with fifteen nominations, closely followed by Peter Chan Ho-Sun’s The Warlords (Tau ming chong). Ann Hui On-Wah’s The Postmodern Life of my Aunt (Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo) has got nine nominations, while Eye in the Sky (Gun chung) and Mad Detective (Sun taam) have both got eight nominations.

Wondering what happened to Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution (Se, jie)? It did not qualify as a Hong Kong film and was only nominated in the Best Asian Film category.

The winners of the Premios Goya 2008 were announced yesterday. The winners for Best Makeup and Best Special Effects were:

Best Special Effects
El ofanato / The Orphanage
David Martí, Montse Ribé, Pau Costa, Enric Masip, Lluis Castells & Jordi San Agustín.

Best Makeup & Hair
El ofanato / The Orphanage
Lola López & Icíar Arrieta.

David and Montse do it again — many congratulations!

20minutos.es has full coverage of the event and a full list of winners and nominees. 

Okay, I know that the Genie Awards aren’t announced until 03 March and that there isn’t a category for Best Makeup. However this year the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television / Académie canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision have given a Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in Make-Up Design to MAC.

update 17/02/2008: Apologies, I misread the makeup award page at the Genie Awards website: MAC is the sponsor of the award not the receipient.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television / Académie canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision announced on 14 February that they have have given a Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in Make-Up Design to Stephan Dupuis for ‘his exceptional make-up, prosthetic and tattoo work on actor Viggo Mortensen’ in the multi-Genie-nominated Eastern Promises. This is only the fourth such award given by the Academy.

The Prix Genie Awards site has information on nominees in other categories. The winners of the annual Genie Awards will be announced on 03 March.

update 07/03/2008: The full listing of Genie Award Winners is available at the Genie Awards website.