2023 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING (November)

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Oscar shortlists will be revealed on December 21, giving us the 10 finalists for Makeup and Hairstyling, and the Makeup and Hairstyling guild (MUAH) unveils its nominations in period, sci-fi/fantasy and contemporary categories.

No change in the top 5 but The Woman King replaces Three Thousand Years of Longing in the top 10 and Corsage, Emancipation, White Noise and X are added to the list.

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

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

1. The Whale (A24)
2. The Batman (Warner Bros)
3. Elvis (Warner Bros)
4. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Walt Disney/Marvel Studios)
5. All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)


6. Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
7. Blonde (Netflix)
8. Babylon (Paramount Pictures)
9. The Woman King (TriStar Pictures)
10. Till (UAR/Orion Pictures)

Other contenders (alphabetical)

  • Bones and All (MGM/UAR)
  • Corsage (IFC FIlms) ♦
  • Crimes of the Future (NEON)
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Marvel Studios)
  • Emancipation (Apple Original Films) ♦
  • 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) ↓
  • White Noise (Netflix) ♦
  • X (A24) ♦

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros

Erik Anderson

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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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