2025 Oscars: Best Makeup and Hairstyling Predictions

Final Oscars voting is February 11-18, 2025. The 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2, and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 4 p.m. Pt. We update our picks throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.
The State of the Race
The Best Makeup and Hairstyling nominees are “A Different Man,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Nosferatu,” “The Substance,” and “Wicked.” The emphasis on horror is unusual, with Best Picture nominee “The Substance” as the favorite since the prosthetics are key to Demi Moore’s Oscar-nominated performance.
Oscar-nominated director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” is a brilliant satire of toxic beauty culture, in which 50-year-old TV aerobics star Elisabeth (Moore) transforms into gorgeous 20-something Sue (Margaret Qualley). But the youth miracle drug turns to body horror, with Elisabeth becoming the decaying mutation called Gollum and both of them evolving into the hideous Monstro. Prosthetics makeup...
The State of the Race
The Best Makeup and Hairstyling nominees are “A Different Man,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Nosferatu,” “The Substance,” and “Wicked.” The emphasis on horror is unusual, with Best Picture nominee “The Substance” as the favorite since the prosthetics are key to Demi Moore’s Oscar-nominated performance.
Oscar-nominated director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” is a brilliant satire of toxic beauty culture, in which 50-year-old TV aerobics star Elisabeth (Moore) transforms into gorgeous 20-something Sue (Margaret Qualley). But the youth miracle drug turns to body horror, with Elisabeth becoming the decaying mutation called Gollum and both of them evolving into the hideous Monstro. Prosthetics makeup...
- 1/28/2025
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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