Taiwan’s 46th Golden Horse Awards winners have been announced.

The winner for Best Makeup & Costume Design was:
Visage / Face (IMDb)
Christian Lacroix, Wang Chia Hui, & Anne Dunsford.

A full listing of all winners & nominees by category is available at the Golden Horse website.

Last night the Royal Television Society announced the winners of this year’s Craft & Design Awards.

The winners in the Makeup Design categories are:

Makeup Design — Drama
Moses Jones
Emma Scott.
‘Portraying in grim detail the gruesome result of a vicious beating, the makeup was so convincing, so livid and so credible that it immediately pulled you as a viewer into the heart of the story and made you curious about the character in question.’

Makeup Design — Entertainment & Non Drama
Dancing On Ice
René Metcalfe & Paul Haskell.
‘ . . . [a] wide variety of exotic creations . . . brought a sense of glamour to the production. The hair styles and make-up for the various artists were exceptional and each told their own story.’

Effects — Special Effects
Being Human
Millennium FX.
‘Working with small budgets and tight deadlines with no post-production enhancement, this work illustrates a real commitment to the profession and the genre. The effective transformations into a werewolf were a tour de force’

The Royal Television Society has announced the nominees for this year’s Craft & Design Awards.

The nominees in the Makeup Design categories are:

Make Up Design — Drama
The Devil’s Whore
Nadine Prigge
Skellig
Conor O’ Sullivan & Rob Trenton
Moses Jones
Emma Scott.

Make Up Design — Entertainment & Non Drama
Dancing On Ice
René Metcalfe & Paul Haskell
Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire
Daniel Parker.

Effects — Special Effects
Skellig
Richard van den Bergh
Apparitions
Davy Jones
Being Human
Millennium FX.

The winners of the RTS Craft & Design Awards 2008/2009 will be announced on 23 November 2009.

I have been asked to sign a petition calling for the release of Roman Polanski. I refused.

Roman Polanski is an incredible filmmaker and his life has undoubtedly been touched by tragedy more than once. But he was arrested for sexual assault on a thirteen-year-old girl and later pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with her. One of my daughters will be thirteen in a few weeks; if that happened to her I would not so much want the criminal jailed as beaten to death with a blunt object.

It would have been hypocritical of me to sign the petition.

Wendy van Dijk (Ushi & Dushi)

The following are the two most interesting websites from Dutch makeup artists and FX studios which I’ve found worth bookmarking.

Rob’s Prop Shop: Rob Hillenbrink set up Rob’s Prop Shop in 1986 and has worked on many movies and TV shows, including creating some really neat cosmetic surgery effects for Moordwijven.

Unreal FX: Rogier Samuels and Carola Brockhoff set up Unreal FX in 2001. Amongst other movies and TV shows they have worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and most recently on Zweiohrkueken and Ushi en Dushi.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has announced the winners of the 24th Annual Gemini Awards, recognising the year’s best in Canadian English-language television.

The winners of the Gemini for Best Achievement in Makeup are:
Stargate Atlantis ‘Vegas’
Todd Masters, Leah Ehman, Holland Miller, Brad Proctor, & Kyla Rose Tremblay.

Apologies for the recent lack of updates; the main workstation and the network attached storage device both got hit by a power surge and diagnosing the extent of the damage has taken priority. The workstation has now been officially declared dead — or at least not economically viable to repair which amounts to the same thing — and I’ve decided to hold a replacement until Windows 7 is released. The NAS device is also dead but I’m hoping that the 2TB of data is recoverable.

I’ll start working on themakeupgallery again next week but updates are likely to be slower than usual until I get the kit sorted out at the end of this month.

21/10/2009 update: Progress in data recovery has been slower — and far more boring — than anticipated but the new server is now ordered.

Les Prix Gemeaux celebrates excellence in French-language Canadian television production; the winners for this years awards were announced on 20 September.

The winners for Meilleurs maquillages/coiffures (Best Makeup/Hair) are:
3600 Secondes d’extase (episode 27)
France Signori, Louis Bond, & Sylvie Rolland-Provost.

On 12 September the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

The winners in the Outstanding Makeup categories are:

Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries Or A Movie (Non-Prosthetic)
The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler
Trefor Proud.

Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic)
MADtv (Episode 1405)
Jennifer Aspinall, Alexei O’Brien, David Williams, & Heather Mages.

Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic)
Pushing Daisies ‘Dim Sum Lose Some’
Todd A McIntosh, David Martin DeLeon, & Steven Anderson.

Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Grey Gardens
Vivian Baker, Linda Dowds, Bill Corso, & Sean Samson.

The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India, and the country’s oldest alongside the Filmfare Awards. Established in 1954, it has been run by the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973. The National Film Awards select the best of Indian cinema overall and particularly focus on contributions to the furthering of Indian art and culture, whereas the Filmfare Awards are presented in separate categories for the best films in each region and language.

A Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal) is awarded for: Best Film; Best Direction; Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment; Best Children’s Film. A Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) is awarded in all other feature film categories. Recently a Silver Lotus for Best Makeup Artist was introduced.

The 55th Awards were announced yesterday.

The winner of the Silver Lotus for Best Makeup Artist was:
Paradesi (IMDb)
Pattnam Rasheed.

Update 11/09/2009: The Hindu has an article on Pattnam Rasheed.