2023 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING (December)

Oscar shortlists will be revealed on December 21, giving us the 10 finalists for Makeup and Hairstyling, and members of the branch who attend special screenings cast preferential ballots with the top 10 vote-getters moving on to the second stage. Those members from the first stage and any other members who either attend screenings of excerpts from these semi-finalists or attest that they have seen them cast preferential ballots and the top five films are Oscar-nominated.

The Makeup and Hairstyling guild (MUAH) unveils its nominations in period, sci-fi/fantasy and contemporary categories on January 11.

Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Makeup and Hairstyling for December.

Green – moves up ↑ Red – moves down ↓ Blue – new entry ♦

1. Elvis (Warner Bros) ↑ – CCA
2. The Batman (Warner Bros) – CCA
3. The Whale (A24) ↓ – CCA
4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Walt Disney/Marvel Studios) – CCA
5. Babylon (Paramount Pictures) ↑ – CCA
6. The Woman King (Sony/TriStar Pictures) ↑
7. Blonde (Netflix)
8. Corsage (IFC Films) ↑
9. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) ↓ – CCA
10. Emancipation (Apple Original Films) ↑

Other contenders (alphabetical)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix) ↓
Bones and All (MGM/UAR)
Crimes of the Future (NEON)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Marvel Studios)
The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (TriStar Pictures)
Men (A24)
The Northman (Focus Features)
RRR (Variance Films)
Thor: Love and Thunder (Walt Disney/Marvel Studios)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (MGM)
Till (UAR/Orion Pictures) ↓
White Noise (Netflix)
X (A24)

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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