OSCAR HISTORY: Best Makeup & Hairstyling

A fairly new award, but very much deserved, the award for makeup honors those artists who not only just make an actor or actress look good on film, but can sometimes transform them into older versions of themselves, or into people that don't even look like them, and for the best examples of makeup work, the Academy selected these choices over the years ...


2023: POOR THINGS     (View Makeup Interview)
2022: THE WHALE     (View Makeup Featurette)
2021: THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE     (View Makeup Featurette)
2020: MA RAINEYS BLACK BOTTOM     (View Film Trailer)
2019: BOMBSHELL     (View Featurette)
2018: VICE     (View Featurette)
2017: DARKEST HOUR     (View Featurette)
2016: SUICIDE SQUAD     (View Featurette)
2015: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD     (View Film Trailer)
2014: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL     (View Film Trailer)
2013: DALLAS BUYERS CLUB     (View Makeup Featurette)
2012: LES MISERABLES     (View Featurette)
2011: THE IRON LADY     (View Film Trailer)
2010: THE WOLFMAN     (View Featurette)
2009: STAR TREK     (View Film Trailer)
2008: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON     (View Featurette)
2007: LA VIE EN ROSE     (View Film Trailer)
2006: PAN'S LABYRINTH     (View Featurette)
2005: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE     (View Film Trailer)
2004: LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS     (View Film Trailer)
2003: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING     (View Film Clip)
2002: FRIDA     (View Film Trailer)
2001: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING     (View Film Clip)
2000: DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS     (View Film Clip)
1999: TOPSY-TURVY     (View Film Trailer)
1998: ELIZABETH     (View Film Trailer)
1997: MEN IN BLACK     (View Film Trailer)
1996: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR     (View Film Clip)
1995: BRAVEHEART     (View Film Clip)
1994: ED WOOD     (View Film Trailer)
1993: MRS. DOUBTFIRE     (View Film Trailer)
1992: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA     (View Film Clip)
1991: TERMINATOR 2 : JUDGMENT DAY     (View Film Trailer)
1990: DICK TRACY     (View Film Trailer)
1989: DRIVING MISS DAISY     (View Film Clip)
1988: BEETLEJUICE     (View Film Clip)
1987: HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS     (View Film Clip)
1986: THE FLY     (View Film Trailer)
1985: MASK     (View Film Clip)
1984: AMADEUS     (View Film Clip)
1982: QUEST FOR FIRE     (View Film Clip)
1981: AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON     (View Film Trailer)
1968: PLANET OF THE APES     (View Film Clip)