Judy Chin Explained

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: Nominated for a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for Best Period Makeup for a Feature Film, forFrida (sharing the nomination with Maryann Marchetti and John E. Jackson)^{[6] [7]}
2003: Won a BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair, for Frida (sharing the award with Beatrice De Alba, John Jackson, and Regina Reyes)^[8]
2011: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make-Up and Hair, for Black Swan (sharing the nomination with Geordie Sheffer)^[9]
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)^[10]
2022: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make Up & Hair, for The Whale (sharing the nomination with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)^[11]
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^{[12] [13]}
2023: Won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, for The Whale (sharing the award with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tribecan wins Oscar for Best Makeup for "The Whale". March 20, 2023 . Tribeca Citizen.
2. Web site: Creatives of Chinese and Indian Descent Triumph at 2023 Oscars. Rebecca. Sun. . March 13, 2023.
3. Web site: Judy Chin: The face as her canvas. Steffie. Nelson. February 4, 2011.
4. Web site: Judy Chin talks about 'Black Swan'. December 5, 2010. Los Angeles Times.
5. Web site: Judy Chin. Television Academy.
6. Web site: Stylist noms announced . Jill Feiwell . January 22, 2003. . . November 14, 2019 .
7. Web site: 'Rings' wins big at hair, makeup awards . February 18, 2003. . . November 14, 2019 .
8. Web site: BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org.
9. Web site: 2011 Film Make-Up And Hair | BAFTA Awards. awards.bafta.org.
10. Web site: 'Everything Everywhere All At Once,' 'Top Gun: Maverick' lead inaugural Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Awards nominations. December 8, 2022. March 25, 2023. December 8, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221208160103/https://awardswatch.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-top-gun-maverick-lead-inaugural-hollywood-critics-association-creative-arts-awards-nominations/. bot: unknown.
11. Web site: 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards: The Winners. January 19, 2023. www.bafta.org.
12. Web site: Critics Choice Awards 2023: The full winners list. Lauren . Huff . January 15, 2023 . EW.com.
13. Web site: How 'The Whale' prosthetics blaze new trails with technology. Bob. Strauss. February 15, 2023. Los Angeles Times.