Precursor: 8th Make-Up Artists Guild Nominations (2016)

The first of today’s major guild announcements is out and the Hollywood Make-Up and Hair Stylists Guild has made their selections in five theatrical categories. Looking at the seven films that made the Academy’s shortlist, five of them are here: Star Trek: Beyond, Suicide Squad, Deadpool, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Hail, Caesar!. Only two of those received two nominations from this group. Most interesting is that the MUHS guild nominations resulted in non-finalist Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as the most nominated film with three.

Although the Academy has done a better job in recent years not just going all-out on prosthetic makeup, we ue the Special Effects Make-Up category as our guide to what the Oscars might choose. Three of the Academy finalists are there. I’d guess Star Trek: Beyond is the most likely to carry over and now that Deadpool has become a slightly more serious player in other categories, it could be one of the final nominees, though Suicide Squad seems to just have more makeup in general, which is a bonus to Oscar voters. I’m still going out on a limb and claiming A Man Called Ove, which made the Academy shortlist, but wasn’t nominated here, as the third nominee. The Academy has bent over backwards in recent years to recognize excellent work outside of the Hollywood sphere, nominating several foreign entries. Ove has that much vaunted old age makeup to give it a boost.

Nominations Tallies

(3) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
(2) Doctor Strange, Hail, Caesar!, La La Land, Loving, Nocturnal Animals, Suicide Squad, Zoolander 2