A fairly new award, but very much deserved, the award for makeup honors those artists who not only just make an actor or actress look good on film, but can sometimes transform them into older versions of themselves, or into people that don't even look like them, and for the best examples of makeup work, the Academy selected these choices over the years ...
2025:
FRANKENSTEIN
2024:
THE SUBSTANCE
2023:
POOR THINGS
2022:
THE WHALE
2021:
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE
2020:
MA RAINEYS BLACK BOTTOM
2019:
BOMBSHELL
2018:
VICE
2017:
DARKEST HOUR
2016:
SUICIDE SQUAD
2015:
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
2014:
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
2013:
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
2012:
LES MISERABLES
2011:
THE IRON LADY
2010:
THE WOLFMAN
2009:
STAR TREK
2008:
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
2007:
LA VIE EN ROSE
2006:
PAN'S LABYRINTH
2005:
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
2004:
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
2003:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
2002:
FRIDA
2001:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
2000:
DR. SEUSS' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
1999:
TOPSY-TURVY
1998:
ELIZABETH
1997:
MEN IN BLACK
1996:
THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
1995:
BRAVEHEART
1994:
ED WOOD
1993:
MRS. DOUBTFIRE
1992:
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
1991:
TERMINATOR 2 : JUDGMENT DAY
1990:
DICK TRACY
1989:
DRIVING MISS DAISY
1988:
BEETLEJUICE
1987:
HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS
1986:
THE FLY
1985:
MASK
1984:
AMADEUS
1982:
QUEST FOR FIRE
1981:
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
1968:
PLANET OF THE APES
