Fantastic Beasts nominated for Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild awards

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is nominated for several Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild awards. As it should be.

It’s awards season, and it seems like new nominations are coming out every day. Today, the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS) announced its nominations for the MUAHS awards, and Fantastic Beasts is up for several statues. Here’s what the field looks like:

FEATURE-LENGTH MOTION PICTURE – BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER MAKE-UP

  • Doctor Strange (Make-Up Artist: Jeremy Woodhead)
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Make-Up Artists: Fae Hammond, Marilyn MacDonald)
  • Hail, Caesar!  (Make-Up Artists: Jean Ann Black, Julie Hewett, Zoe Hay)
  • Loving (Make-Up Artists: Julia Lallas, Katie Middleton)
  • Suicide Squad (Make-Up Artist: Alessandro Bertolazzi)

It’s a strange category that manages to mash together Suicide SquadFantastic Beasts, and Hail, Caesar!

Image: Warner Bros.

FEATURE-LENGTH MOTION PICTURE – BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER HAIR STYLING

  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Hair Stylists: Fae Hammond, Marilyn MacDonald)
  • Florence Foster Jenkins (Hair Stylist: J. Roy Helland)
  • Hail, Caesar! (Hair Stylists: Cydney Cornell, Pauletta Lewis-Irwin, Matt Danon)
  • Jackie (Hair Stylists: Catherine Leblanc-Caraes, Tony Rochetti)
  • Loving (Hair Stylists: Kenneth Walker, Elizabeth Paschall)

Can’t beat those 20s-style bobs.

Image: Warner Brothers

FEATURE-LENGTH MOTION PICTURE – BEST SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS 

  • Deadpool (Make-Up Artists: Bill Corso, Andrew Clement)
  • Doctor Strange (Make-Up Artist: Jeremy Woodhead)
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Make-Up Artist: Fae Hammond)
  • Star Trek Beyond (Make-Up Artists: Joel Harlow, Richie Alonzo)
  • Suicide Squad (Make-Up Artists: Christopher Nelson, Sean Sansom, Greg Nicotero)

Fantastic Beasts did a great job of convincing us of the reality of its special effects characters.

Image: Warner Bros.

The MUAHS Guild Awards will announce the winners at an awards ceremony to be held on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at The Novo in Los Angeles.

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Best of luck to the movie!