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Member nomination voting is underway for the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (IATSE Local 706) honoring outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials, and live theater. The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards will be held on Saturday, February 14th at the Paramount Studios Theatre.

UPDATE: Nominations for this year’s MUAHS Awards were be announced on Thursday, January 8, 2015 and are listed below.

See the seven features who are in the running for an Oscar: for Hair and Makeup: Academy Announcement

2015 Local 706 Guild Awards Nominees List

FEATURE LENGTH MOTION PICTURE (FEATURE FILMS)

— BEST CONTEMPORARY MAKE-UP

  •  Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Make-Up Artist: Allan Apone, Nicole Sortillon and Lisa Rocco (Petition)
  • Gone Girl
  • Make-Up Artist: Kate Biscoe and Gigi Williams
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Make-Up Artist: Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
  • Interstellar
  • Make-Up Artist: Luisa Abel and Jay Wejebe
  • Nightcrawler
  • Make-Up Artist: Donald Mowat and Malanie Romero

— BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER MAKE-UP 

  •  The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
  • Make-Up Artists: Ve Neill, Nikoletta Skarlatos and Conor McCullagh (Petition)
  • Into the Woods
  • Make-Up Artist: Peter Swords King
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Make-Up Artists: Frances Hannon and Julie Dartnell
  • The Theory of Everything
  • Make-Up Artists: Jan Sewell and Lesley Smith
  • Unbroken
  • Make-Up Artists: Toni G. and Nik Dorning

— BEST SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS 

  •  Foxcatcher
  • Make-Up Artists: Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Make-Up Artist: David White
  • Into the Woods (Meryl Streep Witch Prosthetics)
  • Make-Up Artists: J. Roy Helland (Personal) and Matthew Smith (Prosthetics)
  • Maleficent
  • Make-Up Artists: Rick Baker, Toni G. and Arjen Tuiten (Petition)
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  • Make-Up Artist: Tami Lane & Gino Acevedo

— BEST CONTEMPORARY HAIR STYLING 

  •  Birdman
  • Hair Stylists: Jerry Popolis and Kat Drazen
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Hair Stylist: Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
  • Interstellar
  • Hair Stylists: Patricia Dehaney and Jose L. Zamora
  • St. Vincent
  • Hair Stylist: Suzy Mazzarese-Allison
  • Winter’s Tale<
  • Hair Stylists: Alan D’Angerio and Jasen Sica

— BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER HAIR STYLING 

  •  Get on Up
  • Hair Stylists: Carla Farmer and Shannon Bakeman
  • Into the Woods
  • Hair Stylists: Peter Swords King and J. Roy Helland (personal)
  • Selma
  • Hair Stylists: Melissa Forney and Pierce Austin
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Hair Stylists: Frances Hannon and Julie Dartnell
  • The Theory of Everything
  • Hair Stylists: Jan Sewell and Agnes Legere

TELEVISION AND NEW MEDIA SERIES

— BEST CONTEMPORARY MAKE-UP (TIE)

  •  Dancing with the Stars
  • Make-Up Artists: Zena Shteysel, Angela Moos and Patti Ramsey Bortoli (Petition)
  • House of Cards
  • Make-Up Artists: Tricia Sawyer and Vasilios Tanis 
  • Orange is the New Black
  • Make-Up Artists: Michal Bigger and Karen Reuter
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Make-Up Artists: Tracey Anderson, Michelle Garbin and Sabine Roller Taylor (Petition)
  • True Detective
  • Make-Up Artists: Felicity Bowring, Wendy Bell and Linda Dowds (Petition)
  • The Walking Dead
  • Make-Up Artists: Essie Cha, Mayumi Murakami and Chauntelle Langston (Petition)

— BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER MAKE-UP 

  •  Boardwalk Empire
  • Make-Up Artists: Michele Paris and Joe Farulla
  • Downton Abbey
  • Make-Up Artists: Magi Vaughan and Erika Ökvist
  • Key & Peele
  • Make-Up Artists: Scott Wheeler and Suzanne Diaz
  • Mad Men
  • Make-Up Artists: Lana Horochowski and Ron Pipes 
  • Masters of Sex – Season 2
  • Make-Up Artist: Jean A. Black 

— BEST SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS 

  •  Boardwalk Empire
  • Make-Up Artists: Michele Paris and Joe Farulla
  • Grimm
  • Make-Up Artists: Barney Burman and Michael Smithson 
  • Sleepy Hollow
  • Make-Up Artists: Leo Corey Castellano and Mark Nieman 
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Make-Up Artists: Tracey Anderson, Carlton Coleman and Margie Kaklamanos (Petition) 
  • The Walking Dead
  • Make-Up Artists: Greg Nicotero and Jake Garber

— BEST CONTEMPORARY HAIR STYLING 

  •  Dancing with the Stars
  • Hair Stylists: Mary Guerrero, Kimi Messina and Jennifer Guerrero-Mazursky (Petition)
  • House of Cards
  • Hair Stylists: Sean Flanigan and Shunika Terry
  • Orange is the New Black
  • Hair Stylists: Angel De Angelis and Valerie Velez
  • Pretty Little Liars
  • Hair Stylists: Kim M. Ferry and Shari Perry
  • The Voice
  • Hair Stylists: Shawn Finch, Jerilynn Stephens and Cheryl Marks (Petition)

— BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER HAIR STYLING

  •  Downton Abbey
  • Hair Stylists: Magi Vaughan and Adam James Phillips
  • Key & Peele
  • Hair Stylists: Amanda Mofield and Raissa Patton
  • Mad Men
  • Hair Stylists: Theraesa Rivers and Arturo Rojas
  • Masters of Sex – Season 2
  • Hair Stylists: Kathrine Gordon, Darlene Brumfield and Candy Neal (Petition)
  • True Detective
  • Hair Stylists: Anne Morgan, Rita Parillo and Melizah Anguiano

TELEVISION MINI-SERIES or MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION (M.O.W)

— BEST CONTEMPORARY MAKE-UP

  •  Fargo
  • Make-Up Artists: Gail Kennedy, Joanne Preece and Gunther Schetterer (Petition)
  • Reckless
  • Make-Up Artists: Jeanne Van Phue, Gigi Collins and Ashleigh Chavis (Petition) 
  • Sherlock
  • Make-Up Artists: Claire Pritchard-Jones and Sarah Astley-Hughes 

— BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER MAKE-UP

  •  American Horror Story: Freak Show
  • Make-Up Artists: Eryn Krueger Mekash and Kim Ayers 
  • Houdini
  • Make-Up Artist: Gregor Eckstein 
  • Olive Kitteridge
  • Make-Up Artists: Christien Tinsley, Gerald Quist and Liz Bernstrom (Petition)
  • The Knick
  • Make-up Artists: Nicki Ledermann, Luanne Claps and Staphanie Pasicov (Petition)
  • The Normal Heart
  • Make-Up Artists: Eryn Krueger Mekash and Sherri Laurence

— BEST SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS

  • American Horror Story: Freak Show
  • Make-Up Artists: Eryn Krueger Mekash, Michael Mekash and Christopher Nelson (Petition) 
  • Fargo
  • Make-Up Artists: Gail Kennedy, David Trainor and Gunther Schetterer (Petition)
  • Houdini
  • Make-Up Artist: Gregor Eckstein 
  • Olive Kitteridge
  • Make-Up Artists: Christien Tinsley, Gerald Quist and Hiroshi Yada (Petition) 
  • The Knick
  • Make-Up Artist: Justin Raleigh

— BEST CONTEMPORARY HAIR STYLING

  •  Fargo
  • Hair Stylists: Chris Glimsdale and Penny Thompson 
  • Reckless
  • Hair Stylists: Maggie Hayes-Jackson and Patricia McAlhany Glasser
  • Sherlock
  • Hair Stylists: Claire Pritchard-Jones and Sarah Astley-Hughes

— BEST PERIOD AND/OR CHARACTER HAIR STYLING

  •  American Horror Story: Freak Show
  • Hair Stylists: Monte C. Haught and Michelle Ceglia
  • Fargo
  • Hair Stylists: Chris Glimsdale and Keith Sayer
  • Houdini
  • Hair Stylist: Jeanette Latzelsberger and Gabriella Nemeth
  • Olive Kitteridge
  • Hair Stylist: Cydney Cornell
  • The Knick
  • Hair Stylists: Jerry DeCarlo and Rose Chatterton
  • The Normal Heart
  • Hair Stylists: Chris Clark and Joe Whitmeyer

COMMERCIALS AND MUSIC VIDEOS

— BEST MAKE-UP

  •  2015 Audi A8
  • Make-Up Artists: Deborah Rutherford and Don Rutherford 
  • American Horror Story: Freak Show Promo
  • Make-Up Artist: Kerry Herta
  • DIRECTV
  • Make-Up Artists: Scott Stoddard and Michael Ornelaz
  • “Handy” by ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
  • Make-Up Artist: Sean James Cummins 
  • Steal My Girl by One Direction
  • Make-Up Artists: David Abbott and Shawn Blair 

— BEST HAIR STYLING

  •  Dodge Commercial
  • Hair Stylists: Judd Minter and Connie Kallos
  • Progressive Commercial
  • Hair Stylist: Dian Bethune Coble

THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS (LIVE STAGE)

— BEST MAKE-UP

  •  Cosi fan tutte
  • Make-Up Artists: Vanessa Dionne, Rheanne Garcia and Mario Duran (Petition)
  • Kinky Boots
  • Make-Up Artist: Sarah B. Wolfe
  • La traviata
  • Make-Up Artists: Darren K. Jinks and Brandi Strona

— BEST HAIR STYLING

  •  Cosi fan tutte
  • Hair Stylists: Vanessa Dionne, Cassandra Russek and Rheanne Garcia (Petition)
  • La traviata
  • Hair Stylists: Darren K. Jinks and Linda Cardenas
  • Motown The Musical, National Tour
  • Hair Stylist: Brandon Bolton
  • Madama Butterfly
  • Hair Stylist: Gerd M. Mairandres
  • Show Boat
  • Hair Stylist: Gerd M. Mairandres

Honorees

Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented honoring seven time Oscar-winning make-up artist, Rick Baker, and Emmy-nominated hair stylist Kathryn Blondell, the 2015 Distinguished Artisan Award is yet to be named.

About Local 706
The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (IATSE, Local 706) was chartered in November 1937. Today, membership includes over 1,800 artisans in the entertainment industry worldwide. Local 706 members are make-up artists and hair stylists who have created the looks for Hollywood’s most memorable characters and stars of stage, screen, television and now the Internet. The wide-ranging domains of these artists include feature films and television, commercials; “live” network television, all types of theatrical productions and Disneyland Resort. Local 706 members have created notable characters competing for Academy Awards®, Primetime Emmys®, Daytime Entertainment Emmys®, Saturns®, BAFTA Awards® and many other honors for make-up and hair styling artistry, including their own Hollywood Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards®. The Local 706 Guild publishes The Artisan, a glossy quarterly magazine, and provides panels, workshops and training both for members and others interested in the field to foster a spirit of innovation in the craft. The official website can be found at www.local706.org

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