Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson Make History With Ma Rainey s Black Bottom Oscars Nominations
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For their work on
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson became the first Black women to be Oscar nominated in the makeup and hairstyling category.
Neal was the film s hair and wig designer and hair department head, and Wilson is the personal hair stylist for Viola Davis. Sharing the nomination with these women is Davis personal make-up artist and first-time nominee, Sergio Lopez-Rivera. Netflix s
Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, based on August Wilson s play of the same name, follows the titular blues singer (Davis) during a recording session in 1920s Chicago.
Oscars: Pinocchio gets costume & makeup nods, Pausini song
Rosi s Notturno fails to make it onto nominations list
15 Marzo 2021
ROME, MAR 15 - Matteo Garrone s Pinocchio got two
Oscar nominations for costumes and make-up Monday while Laura
Pausini s Io sì (Seen) from the latest Sophia Loren film got a
nod for best song.
Pinocchio was nominated for the costumes by Italy s Massimo
Cantini Parrini and make-up by Briton Mark Coulier, an Oscar
winner for The Iron Lady and The Grand Budapest Hotel, as well
as by Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti.
Pinocchio was co-written, directed and co-produced by Garrone,
and based on the 1883 classic book The Adventures of Pinocchio