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Betty Gilpin said that acting in Glow was “the best job I’ll ever have.”

On Wednesday, the actress who stars as Debbie Eagan in the now-cancelled wrestling comedy, wrote a eulogy in Vanity Fair mourning and celebrating the show created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mesch.

“Glow was cancelled. I am sad. It was the best job I’ll ever have. Our business is a strange mix of attempting childhood dreams to a room full of asleep people and shirking dignity for awake tomato-throwers for rent. This was one of those extremely rare times where we got to do the dream for awake people,” she wrote.

In her essay, Gilpin went on to say how the Netflix show gave her some much-needed stability after hopping from one acting stint to another. The breakthrough, however wouldn’t have been possible without Flahive and Mensch, she continued.

“But there were two...

Nominees for the seventh annual Muahs Guild Awards were unveiled on Monday by they Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, with Paramount’s Rocketman and Lionsgate’s Bombshell scoring the most noms among movies and FX’s American Horror Story: 1984 and Fosse/Verdon, HBO’s Chernobyl and Nickelodeon’s All That leading the TV side.

The awards, which honoring achievements in make-up and hair styling in film, TV, commercials and live theater, will be bestowed at a gala January 11 at The Novo by Microsoft at L.A. Live. The guild will also award make-up artist Thomas Burman and hair stylist Martin Samuel with Lifetime Achievement Awards during the ceremony.

Final voting begins December 3 for the Muahs Guild Awards and closes January 3, 2020.

Here are this year’s nominees:

Feature-length Motion Picture – Best Contemporary Make-up

Avengers: Endgame

John Blake, Francisco Perez

Bombshell

Vivian Baker, Cristina Waltz, Richard Redlefsen

Hustlers

Margot Boccia,...

The touchups and blowouts are complete: Nominations are out for the sixth annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards. IATSE Local 706 will hand out its hardware February 16 during its ceremony at Novo in Los Angeles. Check out the full list below.

Among the awards-season glitterati scoring noms from the guild today are Black Panther, Crazy Rich Asians, A Star Is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, Vice and BlackKklansman. The 21 categories also cover television, commercials, theater and music videos.

The guild announced Wednesday that Melissa McCarthy will receive the 2019 Distinguished Artisan Award. Lifetime Achievement Awards will be p0resented to Emmy-nominated make-up artist Susan Cabral-Ebert, the outgoing Local 706 president, and legendary Emmy-winning hair stylist Robert Louis Stevenson.

Here are the nominees for the sixth annual Muahs Guild Awards. There are ties in two categories, so those marked with an asterisk have six nominees each:

Feature-length Motion Picture – Best Contemporary Make-up*

A Star is Born

Ve Neill,...

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (Iatse Local 706) has announced nominees in film and television categories for 2018.

A slew of films picked up multiple nominations, including “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Stan & Ollie,” “A Star Is Born” and “Vice.” On the television side, “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” led the way with four nominations, plus two more for promotional content. Other nominees included “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” “Glow,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Genius: Picasso.”

Previously announced, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” star Melissa McCarthy will receive the organization’s Distinguished Artisan Award. The guild’s outgoing president, Emmy-nominated makeup artist Susan Cabral-Ebert, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award along with Emmy-winning hairstylist Robert Louis Stevenson.

Winners will be announced at the 6th annual Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 16. Full list of nominees below:

Feature-length Motion Picture

Best Contemporary Makeup (Tie...

When Matthew Weiner planned his next project, there was never a question in his mind: He wanted to get the gang back together.

After all, the creator of the acclaimed drama “Mad Men” is renowned for his meticulous attention to detail, and indeed that series won multiple trophies for every aspect of its production. So when he conceived of “The Romanoffs,” Amazon’s new anthology series about characters who claim to be descendants of the legendary Russian royal family, the first calls he made were to the skilled artisans who shaped “Mad Men,” from casting and production design to costume and hair and makeup.

“They are the best at what they do,” says Weiner, who wrote and directed every episode. “It’s not just a friendship. It’s a matter of trust, and a matter of respect.”

But this time, instead of painstakingly depicting advertising culture in New York in the 1960s,...

An iconic women’s wrestling series of the ’80s, Glow (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) is remembered for its big, frizzy hair, glittery eye makeup and a charmingly scrappy aesthetic—the colorful visual choices it made with its characters. Bringing the Ladies into the comedy arena with Netflix’s Glow, series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch were always going to bump up against the legacy of the original series, with the need for hair and makeup that would do it justice.

Enter Theraesa Rivers and Lana Horochowski, experts in period work—known for projects including Mad Men and The Last Tycoon—who could pull from their own childhood memories to portray ’80s stylings in a nuanced fashion. While the ’80s was a relatively easy decade to tackle, thinking back on their previous period efforts, the collaborators had to figure out how to design with the action of the wrestling ring in mind,...

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (Muahs) have announced nominations for outstanding achievements in motion pictures, television, commercials and live theater during 2017. Winners will be announced on Saturday, February 24 at The Novo by Microsoft at L.A. Live.

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This year’s nominees include six of the seven films short listed for the Best Make-Up and Hairstyling Oscar, including “I, Tonya,” “Ghost in the Shell,” and the Netflix tentpole “Bright.” The only Oscar shortlisted film not to earn a Muahs nomination is “Victoria & Abdul.”

The full nominations list is included below.

Feature-Length Motion Picture – Best Contemporary Make-Up

Baby Driver

Fionagh Cush, Phyllis Temple

The Big Sick

Leo Won, Kirsten Sylvester

Ghost In The Shell

Deborah La Mia Denaver, Jane O.Kane

Pitch Perfect 3

Melanie Hughes-Weaver, Judy Yonemoto, Erica Kyker

Wonder

Naomi Bakstad, Jean Black, Megan Harkness...

Yes, Netflix’s Glow provides a funny, albeit fictional, behind-the-scenes look into the rise of the 1980s phenomenon known as Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Yes, it features comedic heavy hitters like Alison Brie (Community) and Marc Maron (Maron) sporting some truly fantastic period costumes. And yes, the show’s pedigreed production team includes Orange Is the New Black‘s Carly Mensch and Nurse Jackie‘s Liz Flahive, as well as Oitnb‘s Jenji Kohan.

But Glow also provided a vital lesson to its cast, courtesy of the hands-on training the actors underwent prior to the shoot.

RelatedGlow Review: Netflix...

This is the second year for the Makeup and Hairstylists Guild joining the awards game, and they've been a welcome addition to the circuit. They spread their nods thin across a number of categories, but it's a good window into what this branch digs, for sure. This year, the only two films on the Academy's bake-off list of finalists that didn't garner any recognition were "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" and "Noah." Meaning "Foxcatcher," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Maleficent" and "The Theory of Everything" were each represented in one form or another. Meanwhile, "Guardians of the Galaxy" led with the most mentions at three, while "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "Interstellar" and "Into the Woods" each got a pair. As previously announced, Oscar-winning make-up artist Rick Baker and Emmy-nominated hair stylist Kathryn Blondell will receive the Guild's Lifetime Achievement Awards. Check out the full list of nominees below,...

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Into The Woods are among the feature nominees announced today for the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards. There is a tie in the Television and New Media Series Best Contemporary Make-Up Category resulting in six nominees. The awards will be presented during a ceremony February 14 at Paramount Studios. Here’s the complete list:

Feature Length Motion Picture (Feature Films)

Best Contemporary Make-up

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Make-Up Artists: Allan Apone, Nicole Sortillon and Lisa Rocco (Petition)

Gone Girl

Make-Up Artists: Kate Biscoe and Gigi Williams

Guardians of the Galaxy

Make-Up Artist: Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou

Interstellar

Make-Up Artists: Luisa Abel and Jay Wejebe

Nightcrawler

Make-Up Artists: Donald Mowat and Malanie Romero

Feature Length Motion Picture (Feature Films)

Best Period And/Or Character Make-up

Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Make-Up Artists: Ve Neill, Nikoletta Skarlatos and Conor McCullagh (Petition)

Into the Woods...