Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom makeup and hairtstyling: Oscars history?

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is the front-runner to win three Oscars, together with Best Makeup and Hairstyling, for which Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson, and Sergio Lopez-Rivera are all first-time contenders. Their candidacy can also be historic since Neal and Wilson are the primary Black nominees within the historical past of the class.
Neal, Wilson, and Lopez-Rivera are nominated in no small half for reworking Viola Davis into legendary blues singer Ma Rainey, along with the Nineteen Twenties types for the remainder of the solid. Leading as much as the Oscars, the movie gained for its makeup and hair on the BAFTA Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, and the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards, to not point out our very personal Gold Derby Awards.

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So the movie looks like a protected guess for the Oscar, in line with the mixed predictions of 1000’s of Gold Derby customers. It’s forecast by the overwhelming majority of the Expert journalists we’ve surveyed from main media retailers, the Gold Derby Editors who cowl awards year-round, the Top 24 Users who had one of the best predictions ultimately 12 months’s Oscars, and the All-Star Top 24 who had the very best scores once you mix the final couple of years’ predictions outcomes.
This wouldn’t be the primary breakthrough for Black ladies in recent times. Two years in the past “Black Panther” gained Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter) and Best Production Design (Hannah Beachler), which have been the primary wins in each of these classes for Black artists. Last 12 months Karen Rupert Toliver (“Hair Love”) turned the primary Black girl to win Best Animated Short. And this 12 months Garrett Bradley (“Time”) may turn into the primary Black feminine director to win Best Documentary Feature. How a lot historical past do you suppose might be made on Sunday night time, April 25?

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