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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.

BAFTA has now published the nominations for the British Academy Television Craft Awards.

The nominees for Best Makeup & Hair Design are:
Cranford
Alison Elliott
My Boy Jack
Morna Ferguson & Lorraine Glynn
Oliver Twist
Anne ‘Nosh’ Oldham
Rome
Maurizio Silvi.

The winners will be announced on 11 May 2008.

The nominations for the British Academy Television Craft Awards will be announced on 26 March; the awards ceremony will take place on 11 May.

Besides makeup and hair design, the Craft Awards recognise excellence in costume design, editing, graphic design, music, photography and lighting, production design, sound and visual effects.

In addition, there will be a Special Award, to recognise the contribution of a particular individual to Television Craft, and a Break-through Talent Award.

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films have announced the nominees for the 34th Annual Saturn Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on 24 June 2008.

The nominees for Best Makeup are:
Grindhouse – Planet Terror
Howard Berger, Greg Nicotero, & Jake Garber
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Nick Dudman & Amanda Knight
30 Days of Night
Davina Lamont & Gino Acevedo
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Ve Neill & Martin Samuel
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Peter Owen & Ivana Primorac
300
Shaun Smith, Mark Rappaport, & Scott Wheeler.

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.