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“Cruella” (Disney) and “Being the Ricardos” (Amazon) were the surprise period winners for makeup and hairstyling, respectively, at the 9th annual Muahs Guild Awards Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. They beat out such strong Oscar contenders as “Dune” (Warner Bros.), “House of Gucci” (MGM/UA), and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” (Searchlight/Disney).

Additionally, “Coming 2 America” (Amazon), another Oscar contender, took contemporary makeup, hairstyling, and makeup effects honors. The latter was an impressive upset over “Dune” and “House of Gucci.” The “Coming 2 America” team of Mike Marino, Stacey Morris, and Carla Farmer perfectly complemented the Afro-punk vibe introduced by Oscar winning-costume designer Ruth Carter along with adding some new aging effects wrinkles.

While “Cruella” definitely has Oscar momentum for makeup and hair designer Nadia Stacey’s delightfully ’70s punk look for Emma Stone, the fact that the origin story split honors with “Being the Ricardos” — which...

“Coming 2 America” led all films at the 9th annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, which were presented on Saturday evening at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The Eddie Murphy comedy in which makeup is used to transform Murphy and Arsenio Hall into an array of different characters, won three awards in the five feature-film categories, taking prizes for contemporary make-up, special make-up effects and contemporary hair styling.

The other two film awards went to “Cruella,” which won for period and/or character make-up, and “Being the Ricardos,” which won for period and/or character hair styling.

“Coming 2 America” and “Cruella” are both nominated for the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar, along with “Dune,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and “House of Gucci.” Since Muahs relaunched its awards in 2013, no film has won the Oscar for makeup without first winning an award from the guild.

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Coming 2 America and Saturday Night Live both took home three wins Saturday at the ninth annual Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards, making the former the front-runner in the craft category at the Oscars.

The Amazon Studios sequel starring Eddie Murphy won for Best Contemporary Make-Up, Best Special Make-Up Effects and Best Contemporary Hair Styling, besting the feature film field during tonight’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton.

Other film winners included Amazon’s Being the Ricardos for Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling, and Disney’s Cruella for Best Period and/or Character Make-Up.

Coming 2 America and Cruella are both nominated in the combined Makeup and Hairstyling category at the 94th Oscars, which will take place March 27.

Since the modern Muahs Awards began in 2014, one of its marquee winners has gone on the claim the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar every year. Last year,...

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild held its ninth annual awards ceremony Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

“Coming 2 America” dominated the night, taking home the awards for best contemporary make-up and hairstyling, in a surprise win, beating out Oscar frontrunners like “Dune,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and “House of Gucci” for best special make-up effects.

On the TV front, “American Horror Stories,” “Dancing With the Stars” “Emily in Paris,” “Pose,” “Genius: Aretha,” “Legendary,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Star Trek: Discovery” all took home awards.

“The Kelly Clarkson Show” won in the daytime television category for both make-up and hair. Children/teen program honors went to “Danger Force” for both make-up and hair categories.

Actress Melissa Peterman served as host for the night, emceeing to a 600 strong crowd with Covid protocols in place. The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild partnered with Vow, a top US government-contracted...

Let the gussying-up begin. The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has applied the nominations for its ninth annual awards show next month. See the film list of nominations below.

Triple nominees on the film side are The Suicide Squad, House of Gucci, Coming 2 America and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Among the pics scoring two noms apiece are Dune, No Time to Die, Being the Ricardos and Cruella.

The movies vying for Best Contemporary Make-Up are Black Widow, Coming 2 America, Don’t Look Up, No Time to Die and The Suicide Squad. Films in the hunt for Best Contemporary Hair Styling are Coming 2 America, In the Heights, No Time to Die, The Matrix Resurrections and The Suicide Squad.

The Period and/or Character Make-Up nominees are Being the Ricardos, Cruella, Dune, House of Gucci and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. All of those also will compete for Best Period...

“The Suicide Squad,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Coming 2 America” and “House of Gucci” lead the ninth annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild nominations (IATSE Local 706).

“The Suicide Squad,” released last August, was nominated in special makeup effects, contemporary makeup and contemporary hairstyling.

“The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “Coming 2 America” and “House of Gucci” also landed three nominations, while “Dune” scored two nods. This bodes well for all the films which made the Oscar shortlist.

As previously announced, makeup artist Michèle Burke, known for her work on the Mission Impossible and Austin Powers franchises, and hairstylist Joy Zapata, who worked on “A Star is Born” and “Wonder Woman 1984,” will receive the 2022 Muahs Lifetime Achievement awards. The Distinguished Artisan award will be announced shortly.

The winners will be announced on Feb. 19 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Find the full list of nominations below.

Best Contemporary Make-Up,...

Syfy has set a Tuesday, Jan. 24 premiere date for an “All Stars” Season 11 of Face Off, in which past contestants engage in elaborate, never-before-seen challenges as they battle it out for a coveted second chance at victory.

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McKenzie Westmore will host the All Stars season, while Ve Neill, Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page will serve as judges and Michael Westmore continues as contestant mentor. Special guests this season include director John Landis, writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson, producer Suzanne Todd, director Marcus Nispel and stunt coordinator Jeff Wolfe.

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Hopefully your breakfast is sitting well because after seeing these latest effects shots from Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, you're likely to lose it. As for lunch... don't even bother.

While we sit here in the States patiently waiting, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero is opening in Germany this weekend and will also be spreading across the UK on March 17, 2014, from Signature Entertainment. One of our favorite effects artists, Vincent J. Guastini, has offered up some behind-the-scenes grue to get you dreadheads in the mood for a little viral action!

"For the effects on this film we went all out. There were various victims who are infected as well as most of the main cast," says Guastini about spreading the red, "as well as an entire river bog of various infected, in all stages of this type of disease, both done with actors in prosthetics and with custom-made dummies made just for this production.

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Now, that’s how you want to celebrate an iconic show’s 50th anniversary. The son of Anthony Coburn, who wrote the very first episode of Doctor Who, claims he owns the rights to the Tardis, the iconic police call box used to travel through space and time. He claims his dad gave the BBC informal permission to use the idea but that ended with his father’s death in 1977.

The CW has ordered a full season of its new dramas — The Originals, , The Tomorrow People and Reign. That last one is a bit of a surprise, since Reign has lost a lot of The Vampire Diaries‘ viewers (apparently, its ratings are consistent with or without the Tvd lead-in and there are a lot of online viewers only The CW can measure).

Sure, the writing on The Tomorrow People has me rolling my eyes, but it also has a...

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Bryan Fuller‘s Syfy pilot High Moon (based on The Lotus Caves) has found its leading men. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Diamantopoulos and Easy A‘s Jake Sandvig will play the brothers dealing with newly-discovered life on the moon.

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That Borgias finale movie won’t get made but you will soon be able to buy the script as an e-book.

Freddie Prinze Jr. will appear on Lifetime’s Witches of East End, according to EW. He’ll play an entomologist who falls for Madchen Amick‘s character, even though she may have underhanded motivations.

Matthew Atkinson, who was in ABC Family’s short-lived Jane By Design will be appearing on Parenthood, according to TVLine. He’ll play a man who strikes a friendship with Amber, much to Ryan annoyance.

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Greg Berlanti has sold a pilot to NBC, Deadline reports. The story follows a...

The International Make-Up Artists Trade Show will be taking place this weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, and Syfy’s Face Off will be having a panel discussion there, featuring cast members from the show, and moderated by one of the judges. Here’s the press release:

Crown Brush presents

Face Off Panel Discussion featuring Gage Hubbard, Frank Ippolito and Conor McCullagh. Moderated by Ve Neill.

Join a selection of cast members from Syfy’s reality show Face Off as they discuss their experiences with Ve Neill, one of the show’s judges.

Get more information at www.imats.net.

Panel bios:

Ve Neill is one of the most renowned make-up artists in the motion-picture business today. Over the course of her 30-year career, she has earned 21 international nominations and wins, including three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and four Saturn Awards. Her film credits include Pirates of the Caribbean,...

Gage Hubbard, a.k.a. Gage Munster, won the very first Foundation Challenge of the show. He then held on until the finals despite never winning another challenge and garnered tons of fan support with his final makeup, a gruesome take on “Hansel and Gretel.” Predictably, many followers of the show thought he should have won the grand prize based on that design.

For the season finale of Face Off, the four remaining contestants - Samantha Cobb, Gage Hubbard, Tate Steinsiek and Connor McCullagh, had to create a makeup for not one, but two fairytale characters in three days. Each contestant was given the opportunity to choose a fairy tale and to choose a theme such as post nuke or haunted, etc.

So how did everyone measure up? I have to say they really stepped it and each one of them should be proud of themselves. However, this is a competition and there can only be one winner. Samantha Cobb who decided to do a psychedelic take on The Little Mermaid, did an excellent job on her makeup, but her effort lacked the complexity and nuance of the other contestants work. Plus, her colors got muted by a bold background. She was the first one elimnated, and rightfully so, by the judges.

So that leaves just three now.

Below we have a sneak peek clip of the season finale of Face Off entitled Twisted Tale. All of the contestants are back under the same roof before the final showdown and while some are in party mode, some get serious and show just how truly dedicated they are to the art of make-up and that they’re simply there to win. Tensions are high and paint is wet. Who will rise to the top on Face Off? Take a look at the clip and tune in for the finale on Wednesday at 10/9c only on Syfy! And ask yourself, who's going to win? Is it going to be Tate Steinsiek? Is it going to be Gage Hubbard? Is it going to be Connor McCullagh? Or is underdog Samantha Cobb, who won for the first time last week, going to pull an upset? Stay tuned to find out!

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Syfy’S New Reality Competition Series, Face Off, Premieres Wednesday, January 26 At 10 Pm Et/Pt

Twelve of the Country’s Brightest Special Effects Make-Up Artists Face Off for a $100,000 Prize and to be Named the Next Great SFX Artist

New Series Features Multiple Oscar-Winner Ve Neill, Glenn Hetrick and Patrick Tatopoulos as Judges, McKenzie Westmore as Host

Go inside the imaginative and creative world of special effects make-up artistry with Syfy’s new reality competition series, Face Off, premiering Wednesday, January 26 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt on Syfy. The series will introduce 12 up-and-coming make-up artists who will face off in Los Angeles in a series of elaborate challenges that will determine just who has the steady artistic hand to be the country’s next great SFX artist.

For their first spotlight elimination challenge, the contestants are tasked to imagine an entirely new species, a human/animal hybrid, based on one...

Fango heard from William Butler and Gage Munster, writer/director and FX artist respectively of Demonic Toys 2: Personal Demons, who just returned from the shoot in Italy and sent the exclusive photos seen below. The movie was lensed in Charles Band’s personal castle (also the site of such memorable flicks as Castle Freak and The Pit And The Pendulum), where the spooky atmosphere was both a blessing and a bit of a “curse.”

“The shoot went amazing,” Butler tells Fango. “This was the first time I had shot in Italy since back when I was an effects supervisor on old Empire films like Robot Jox, Arena, Dolls and Troll. I had remarkable experiences working on those with Irwin and Frank Yablans, Stuart Gordon, Yvonne DeCarlo, Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen—and of course, who could forget Sonny Bono?” It seems he can add Demonic Toys to his list of fond memories.