Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations introduced January 17, 2025. Closing voting is February 11-18, 2025. And eventually, the 97th Oscars telecast shall be broadcast on Sunday, March 2, and air reside on ABC at 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT. We replace our picks all through awards season, so hold checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.
As we enter the autumn/vacation season, “Depraved” (Common) is gathering early buzz for Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling. Different standouts embrace “The Substance” (MUBI), “A Totally different Man” (A24), “Maria” (Netflix), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “Dune: Half Two” (Warner Bros.), and “Longlegs” (Neon). However the race will warmth up with the arrival of “Nosferatu” (Focus Options) on Christmas.
“Depraved,” Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, delivers the backstory between the Depraved Witch of the West and Glinda. Earlier than they grow to be bitter enemies, an unlikely friendship types on the magical Shiz College within the Land of Oz between Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a misunderstood lady with inexperienced pores and skin, and the favored Galinda (Ariana Grande). Oscar winners Frances Hannon (“The Grand Budapest Lodge”) and Mark Coulier (“Poor Issues,” “The Grand Budapest Lodge,” “The Iron Girl”) deal with make-up/hair and prosthetics impressed by the unique drawings from L. Frank Baum’s novel. Hannon was tasked with creating make-up and hair that might stand up to singing, dancing, flying, and 14-hour shoot days. The meticulous transformations for Elphaba and Glinda took over two hours every day of filming. She went by way of a radical testing course of to create the proper shade of inexperienced for Cynthia’s pores and skin tone, ensuring the product appeared good in all lighting.
“The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat’s physique horror fairy story, turns poisonous magnificence tradition inside out. Demi Moore performs Elisabeth, a film star quote-unquote previous her prime and fired from her health TV present, who will get a shot at being reborn as 20-something Sue (Margaret Qualley), because of a miracle drug. Nevertheless, there’s a catch: Time must be cut up between our bodies. Prosthetics make-up designer Pierre Olivier Persin conjures a collection of weird transformations for the 2 girls. The horrifying metamorphosis finds Elisabeth turning into the decaying mutation referred to as Gollum and each of them remodeling into the hideous Monstro Elisasue. For Gollum, they immersed Moore’s higher physique in skinny silicone prosthetics after which utilized thicker home equipment to construct up a number of the bones, knuckles, knees, and elbows. For Monstro Elisasue, the look is big, grotesque, and virtually Picasso-like with displaced physique components.
“A Totally different Man,” the black comedy from Aaron Schimberg, stars Sebastian Stan as an aspiring actor who undergoes experimental facial reconstructive surgical procedure to treatment his Neurofibromatosis (NF). After his profitable transformation, he tries to land an element in a play based mostly on his former self carrying a masks however loses out to the charismatic Adam Pearson (the British actor with NF). Oscar-nominated prosthetic make-up designer Mike Marino (“The Batman,” “Coming 2 America”) creates a number of layers with life like element to emulate the look of NF, utilizing Pearson as a visible connection.
“Emilia Pérez,” the Spanish-language musical crime thriller from Jacques Audiard, stars Zoe Saldaña as a disgruntled lawyer who assists the titular escaped Mexican cartel chief (Karla Sofía Gascón) in present process gender affirmation surgical procedure. The make-up and hair departments have been overseen by make-up division heads Julia Floch-Carbonel and Simon Livet, in addition to hair division head Romain Marietti. The centerpiece is our introduction to Gascón because the cartel chief previous to the transformation.
“Maria,” Pablo Larraín’s biographically-inspired drama about opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie), takes place throughout her remaining years in Paris within the ’70s. It fuses the ’40s by way of the ’70s interval with surreal musical sequences. Make-up and hair designer Heike Merker and prosthetics designer Arjen Tuiten paved the way.
In “Dune: Half Two,” the Oscar-nominated make-up and hair designer Donald Mowat returns to rework Stellan Skarsgård into the horrifying Baron Harkonnen whereas introducing the Baron’s nephew, Feyd-Rautha, a bald, sociopathic gladiator performed by Austin Butler. As well as, Rebecca Ferguson’s Girl Jessica boasts extra elaborate make-up when she joins the Fremen’s cave-dwelling Sietch.
Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” transforms Nicolas Cage right into a creepy serial killer for the ages, courtesy of head of make-up Felix Fox and particular make-up results artist Harlow MacFarlane. The androgynous, disfigured Marc Bolan glam rock vibe was topped off with powdered make-up impressed by Bob Dylan. The seven-piece prosthetic software offered the broken and puffy pores and skin that was seemingly derived from a collection of botched surgical procedures.
“Nosferatu,” director Robert Eggers’ transforming of F.W. Murnau’s legendary silent vampire movie (remade by Werner Herzog in 1979), is a brand new tackle the pre-Victorian haunted story of gothic horror. It stars Invoice Skarsgård because the notorious Depend Orlok, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, the thing of his want, and Nicholas Hoult as her husband, Thomas. It was led by David White, prosthetic & make-up FX designer. For Skarsgård’s Orlok, this concerned rigorously manicured nineteenth century hairdos and facial hair, which quickly devolves as he turns into more and more extra concerned Ellen and Thomas. They grow to be devastated, which exhibits of their MUAH.
Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.), the sequel to his horror comedy, resurrects Michael Keaton’s foul-mouth ghoul from the afterlife to torment the Deetz household 36 years later. “Beetlejuice” gained the make-up/hair Oscar, which units a excessive bar. Christine Blundell serves as make-up and hair designer, nevertheless it’s a deep prosthetics staff for all the creature work.
For George Miller’s “Furiosa” prequel, hair and make-up designer Lesley Vanderwalt (from the Oscar-winning “Fury Highway”) assembled a military of craftspeople to deal with all the Wasteland seems to be. However the standout was Chris Hemsworth’s Dementus, chief of the Biker Hoard, with a prosthetic nostril, contacts, and an extended beard.
“Joker: Folie à Deux” (Warner Bros.) Todd Phillips’ musical thriller, picks up with Arthur/Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) dealing with the demise penalty for a number of murders and hanging up a delusional romance of track and dance with Girl Gaga’s Harley Quinn whereas incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. Oscar-nominated make-up and hair designers Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou return to boost Joker and picture a complementary Harley Quinn.
Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million epic sci-fi ardour undertaking that attracts parallels between the autumn of Rome and the collapse of America, is about in a New York-like metropolis referred to as New Rome. Oscar-winning make-up division head Valli O’Reilly (“A Collection of Unlucky Occasions”) and hair division head Terrie Velazquez Owen lean into the director’s theatricality and Roman fashion.
“Nightbitch,” Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel, sees Amy Adams mutate right into a canine. The metaphor in regards to the altering feminine physique is handled within the spirit of the novel’s magical realism. Thomas Floutz, the particular make-up results division head, offered further dog-like nipples, amongst different prosthetics to facilitate the transformation.
Robert Zemeckis’ “Right here” (Sony Photos), based mostly on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire in regards to the inhabitants of a single home from the ’30s to the current day, affords an experiment in time, area, and getting older. The main target is on Tom Hanks and Robin Wright (reunited from “Forrest Gump”), who meet and marry within the late ’60s, elevate a household, and develop previous collectively. Metaphysic Dwell, the generative AI software program from Metaphysic, affords face-swapping and de-aging in real-time because the actors carry out. However there’s plenty of prosthetic work as effectively, led by Nick Williams and a staff of particular results make-up and hairstylists.
“A Full Unknown” (Searchlight Photos), James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, chronicles the folks star’s rise within the early ’60s in New York’s West Village, the place he arrived at 19 from Minnesota. Co-head of the make-up division, David Presto, and a number of other hair stylists deal with the transformation.
“Saturday Evening” from director Jason Reitman, chronicles the lead-up to the premiere of NBC’s iconic late-night sketch comedy present, starring Gabriel LaBelle (“The Fabelmans”) as “SNL” creator/producer Lorne Michaels. The MUAHS staff (led by make-up division head Tricia Sawyer and a number of other hair stylists) transforms the actors into the comedy legends who come collectively for this momentous present.
“Gladiator II,” Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning sequel, takes place twenty years later because the Roman Empire continues to implode. Lucius (Paul Mescal), the previous inheritor to the Empire, is compelled to enter the Colosseum as a ruthless gladiator and rises to face Pedro Pascal’s Roman common, Marcus Acacius. There’s loads of interval MUAHS alternative, together with blood and gore. The top of departments and designers answerable for the look of the movie are Jana Carboni (make-up designer) and Giuliano Mariano (hair designer).
Potential nominees are listed in alphabetical order; no movie shall be deemed a frontrunner till now we have seen it.
“A Totally different Man”
“Dune: Half Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“The Substance”
“Depraved”
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
“A Full Unknown”
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
“Gladiator II”
“Right here”
“Joker: Folie à Deux”
“Longlegs”
“Maria”
“Megalopolis”
“Nightbitch”
“Nosferatu”
“Saturday Evening”
