2024 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING (November)
The Oscar shortlists will be revealed on December 21, 2023. Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (MUAH) nominations nominations are January 2, 2024 and the Makeup and Hairstyling nominating Oscar screenings (the “bake-offs”) will take place on January 14. Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23 and the 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10.
Here are my 2024 Oscar predictions for the 10-film shortlist in Makeup and Hairstyling for November 2023.
- Maestro (Netflix)
- Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios)
- NYAD (Netflix)
- The Color Purple (Warner Bros)
- Society of the Snow (Netflix)
- Barbie (Warner Bros)
- Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
- Priscilla (A24)
- Chevalier (Searchlight Pictures)
Next up:
Asteroid City (Focus Features, Ferrari (NEON), The Iron Claw (A24), Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films), Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures), Wonka (Warner Bros)
Other contenders:
Air (Amazon MGM Studios), BlackBerry (IFC Films), Bob Marley: One Love (Paramount Pictures), Cassandro (Amazon Studios), The Creator (20th Century Studios), Dicks: The Musical (A24), Dream Scenario (A24), Freud’s Last Session (Sony Pictures Classics), Golda (Bleecker Street), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Lionsgate), The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney Pictures), Rustin (Netflix)
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Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Named Best Film 
Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Lead 
Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Winners: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Lead 
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Fight It Out