2025 Oscars Best Makeup and Hairstyling Predictions

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2025 Oscars Predictions:
Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Weekly Commentary (Updated Nov. 14, 2024): One of the six Oscars that the first “Dune” did not go home with was for best makeup and hairstyling. Could the team finally get the recognition they deserve? Or could the incredible body horror elements of “The Substance” or vampiric transformations in “Nosferatu” excite voters? The pristine green makeup placed upon Cynthia Erivo in the musical “Wicked” is also worth considering.

More to come.

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The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2. All movie listings, titles, distributors, and credited artisans are not final and are subject to change.

** denotes the film is not yet dated or can open in 2025.

And the Predicted Nominees Are

Next in Line

Other Contenders

Eligible Artisans (Makeup and Hairstyling)

** This list is incomplete and not yet finalized. Not all films have distribution or release dates. All are subject to change.

• “Alien: Romulus” (20th Century Studios)

• “All We Imagine as Light” (Janus Films/Sideshow)

• “Anora” (Neon)

• “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment)

• “Babygirl” (A24)

• “Back to Black” (Focus Features)

• “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.)

• “Better Man” (Paramount Pictures)

• “Between the Temples” (Sony Pictures Classics)

• “The Bikeriders” (Focus Features)

• “Bird” (Mubi)

• “Black Dog” (The Forge)

• “Blink Twice” (Amazon MGM)

• “Blitz” (Apple Original Films)

• “Bob Marley: One Love” (Paramount Pictures)

• “The Book of Clarence” (Sony Pictures)

• “The Brutalist” (A24)

• “Challengers” (Amazon MGM)

• “Civil War” (A24)

• “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures)

• “Conclave” (Focus Features)

• “The Count of Monte Cristo” (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

• “Daddio” (Sony Pictures Classics)

• “Day of the Fight” (Falling Forward Films)

• “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Marvel Studios)

• “The Deliverance” (Netflix)

• “A Different Man” (A24)

• “Dìdi” (Focus Features)

• “Drive-Away Dolls” (Focus Features)

• “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)

• “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

• “The End” (Neon)

• “Evil Does Not Exist” (Sideshow)

• “Exhibiting Forgiveness” (Roadside Attractions)

• “Ezra” (Roadside Attractions)

• “Fancy Dance” (Apple Original Films)

• “Femme” (Utopia)

• “The Fire Inside” (Amazon MGM)

• “Firebrand” (Roadside Attractions)

• “Frida” (Amazon MGM)

• “The Front Room” (A24)

• “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (Warner Bros.)

• “Girls Will be Girls” (Juno Films)

• “Gladiator II” (Paramount Pictures)

• “Ghostlight” (IFC Films)

• “Good One” (Metrograph Pictures)

• “Green Border” (Kino Lorber)

• “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street)

• “Here” (Sony Pictures)

• “Heretic” (A24)

• “His Three Daughters” (Netflix)

• “Hit Man” (Netflix)

• “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” (Warner Bros.)

• “I Saw the TV Glow” (A24)

• “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics)

• “The Idea of You” (Amazon MGM)

• “IF” (Paramount Pictures)

• “The Imaginary” (Netflix)

• “In the Summers” (Music Box Films)

• “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” (Kino Lorber)

• “It Ends With Us” (Sony Pictures)

• “Janet Planet” (A24)

• “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Warner Bros.)

• “Kinds of Kindness” (Searchlight Pictures)

• “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century Studios)

• “Kneecap” (Sony Pictures Classics)

• “The Last Showgirl” (Roadside Attractions)

• “Lee” (Roadside Attractions)

• “Longlegs” (Neon)

• “Los Frikis” (Wayward/Range Releasing)

• “Love Lies Bleeding” (A24)

• “Maria” (Netflix)

• “Megalopolis” (Lionsgate)

• “Misericordia” (Janus Films)

• “Monkey Man” (Universal Pictures)

• “The Most Precious of Cargoes” (StudioCanal)

• “Mothers’ Instinct” (Neon)

• “My Old Ass” (Amazon MGM)

• “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM/Orion)

• “Nightbitch” (Searchlight Pictures)

• “No Other Land” (Antipode Films)

• “Nosferatu” (Focus Features)

• “Oh, Canada” (Kino Lorber)

• “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (A24)

• “One Life” (Bleecker Street)

• “The Order” (Vertical Entertainment)

• “The Outrun” (Sony Pictures Classics)

• “Parthenope” (A24)

• “The People’s Joker” (Altered Innocence)

• “The Piano Lesson” (Netflix)

• “Queer” (A24)

• “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures)

• “The Return” (Bleecker Street)

• “Rez Ball” (Netflix)

• “The Room Next Door” (Sony Pictures Classics)

• “Rumours” (Bleecker Street)

• “Sasquatch Sunset” (Bleecker Street)

• “Saturday Night” (Sony Pictures)

• “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Neon)

• “September 5” (Paramount Pictures)

• “Shirley” (Netflix)

• “Sing Sing” (A24)

• “The Six Triple Eight” (Netflix)

• “Small Things Like These” (Lionsgate)

• “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” (Paramount Pictures)

• “Spellbound” (Netflix)

• “Stopmotion” (IFC/Shudder)

• “The Substance” (Mubi)

• “Sugarcane” (National Geographic Documentary Films)

• “Thelma” (Magnolia Pictures)

• “To a Land Unknown” (Watermelon Pictures)

• “Tuesday” (A24)

• “Twisters” (Universal Pictures)

• “Unstoppable” (Amazon MGM)

• “Venom: The Last Dance” (Sony Pictures)

• “Vermiglio” (Janus Films and Sidehow)

• “We Grown Now” (Sony Pictures Classics)

• “We Live in Time” (A24)

• “Wicked” (Universal Pictures)

• “Wildcat” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

• “Will & Harper” (Netflix)

• “Woman of the Hour” (Netflix)

• “Young Woman and the Sea” (Walt Disney Pictures)

More Information (Oscars: Makeup and Hairstyling)

2024 category winner: “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) — Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, and Josh Weston

2024-2025 Oscars Calendar and Timeline – Full awards season calendar here

• Eligibility period: Jan. 1, 2024 – Dec. 31, 2024

• General entry, best picture, RAISE submission deadline: Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

• Governors Awards: Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024

• Preliminary voting begins Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, at 9 a.m. PT.

• Preliminary voting ends Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, at 5 p.m. PT.

• Oscar Shortlists Announcement: Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024

• Eligibility period ends: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024

• Nominations voting begins Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT.

• Nominations voting ends Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT.

• Oscar Nominations Announcement: Friday, Jan. 17, 2025

• Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

• Final voting begins Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT

• Final voting ends: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT

• Scientific and Technical Awards: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025

• 97th Oscars: Sunday, March 2, 2025

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The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, is Hollywood’s most prestigious artistic award in the film industry. Since 1927, nominees and winners have been selected by members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nineteen branches are represented within the nearly 11,000-person membership. The branches are actors, animators, associates, casting directors, cinematographers, costume designers, directors, documentary, executives, film editors, makeup and hairstylists, marketing and public relations, members-at-large, members-at-large (artists’ representatives), music, producers, production design, short films, sound, visual effects and writers.

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