Judy Chin is an Academy Award-winning American makeup artist, having won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for The Whale in 2023 (sharing the award with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley).[1] With this win, she became the first woman of Asian descent to win the Academy Award in that category.[2]

She worked for the New York City Opera for four years, where she learned to use pancake makeup.[3][4]

Selected film and television work

1989: The Unbelievable Truth
1998: Montana
2000: Requiem for a Dream
2000–2004: Sex and the City
2002: Life Without Dick
2002: Frida
2003: Coffee and Cigarettes
2003: House of Sand and Fog
2004: National Treasure
2005: The Ballad of Jack and Rose
2005: Broken Flowers
2006: The Fountain
2007: Across the Universe
2008: Smart People
2008: Jumper
2008: Sex and the City
2008: Synecdoche, New York
2008: The Wrestler
2009: Bored to Death
2010: Sex and the City 2
2010: Black Swan
2010: The Tempest
2011: The Playboy Club
2012: The Dictator
2013: Oz the Great and Powerful
2013: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
2014: Noah
2014: Birdman
2014: While We're Young
2015: Irrational Man
2015: Bridge of Spies
2016: Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016: Money Monster
2016: American Pastoral
2017: The Meyerowitz Stories
2017: Mother!
2017: Wonder
2017: The Post
2018: Maniac
2019: The Dead Don't Die
2019: Little Women
2020: Greyhound
2020: The Glorias
2021: tick, tick...boom!
2021: West Side Story
2022: The Whale

Selected awards and nominations

2001: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic), for Sex and the City[5]
2003: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic), for Sex and the City[5]
2003: Won a BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair, for Frida (sharing the award with Beatrice De Alba, John Jackson, and Regina Reyes)[6]
2011: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make-Up and Hair, for Black Swan (sharing the nomination with Geordie Sheffer)[7]
2022: Nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Award for Makeup and Hairstyling, for The Whale (sharing the nomination with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)[8]
2022: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make Up & Hair, for The Whale (sharing the nomination with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)[9]
2022: The Whale, which Chin among others worked on the makeup of, was nominated for Best Hair and Makeup at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards[10][11]
2023: Won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, for The Whale (sharing the award with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tribecan wins Oscar for Best Makeup for "The Whale"". Tribeca Citizen. March 20, 2023.
  2. ^ Sun, Rebecca (March 13, 2023). "Creatives of Chinese and Indian Descent Triumph at 2023 Oscars". The Hollywood Reporter.
  3. ^ Nelson, Steffie (February 4, 2011). "Judy Chin: The face as her canvas".
  4. ^ "Judy Chin talks about 'Black Swan'". Los Angeles Times. December 5, 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Judy Chin". Television Academy.
  6. ^ "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
  7. ^ "2011 Film Make-Up And Hair | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
  8. ^ "'Everything Everywhere All At Once,' 'Top Gun: Maverick' lead inaugural Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Awards nominations". December 8, 2022. Archived from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved March 25, 2023.((cite web)): CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ "2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards: The Winners". www.bafta.org. January 19, 2023.
  10. ^ Huff, Lauren (January 15, 2023). "Critics Choice Awards 2023: The full winners list". EW.com.
  11. ^ Strauss, Bob (February 15, 2023). "How 'The Whale' prosthetics blaze new trails with technology". Los Angeles Times.

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