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Elvis topped the feature competition at the 10th annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (IATSE Local 706), winning a pair of awards for period make-up and period hair styling.

Accepting with the team, Shane Thomas said of the team’s challenge to creating Elvis Presley, “We wanted to represent and respect, but not impersonate.” He also saluted director Baz Luhrmann’s “unwavering commitment” to filmmaking.

Also on Saturday at The Beverly Hilton, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever collected the award for contemporary hair styling. Department head Camille Friend dedicated the award to the late Chadwick Boseman.

Angela Bassett – who is Oscar-nominated for her role as Queen Ramonda in Wakanda Forever – received the Guild’s Distinguished Artisan Award during the ceremony. Bassett called the Guild members the “unsung heroes of filmmaking” as she accepted the award. “For any show, there is a team who works long and hard to help us bring to life the character.

The Batman and Elvis lead the feature noms for the 10th Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards ( IATSE Local 706), which announced its nominations on Wednesday morning.

The Batman is nominated in the categories for contemporary make-up, contemporary hair styling, and special make-up effects. Elvis is a contender for period or character make-up, period or character hair styling, and special make-up effects.

Both movies are shortlisted for the Oscar in make-up and hair styling, along with Amsterdam, Babylon, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Blonde, which received two Muahs Guild nominations apiece; The Whale, which earned one Guild nomination; and All Quiet On The Western Front, Crimes of the Future and Emancipation.

Winners will be announced during a ceremony hosted by Melissa Peterman on Feb. 11 at The Beverly Hilton

The complete list of nominees follows.

Feature-length Motion Picture:

Best Contemporary Make-up

The Batman

Naomi Donne, Doone Forsyth, Norma Webb, Jemma Carballo...

The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild has applied the nominations for its 10th anniversary awards show next month. See the full list below.

The Batman is the sole triple nominee on the film side. Pics scoring two noms apiece are Amsterdam, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Elvis and The Menu.

Awards for outstanding achievement in make-up and hair styling artistry will be presented in 23 categories spanning film, TV, commercials/music videos and live theater. Coming 2 America and Saturday Night Live were triple winners at last year’s Muahs Awards.

Since the modern Muahs Awards began in 2014, one of its marquee film winners — has gone on the claim the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar every year — except in 2022. The Academy Award went to The Eyes of Tammy Faye, which was up for three of the guild’s awards but went home empty-handed.

Last like year, Legendary again...

To celebrate the release of The Witcher: Blood Origin, we spoke to the cast and creatives of the show.

Set 1200 years before the event of original The Witcher series, Blood Origin follows the downfall of the Elven empire as seven members of different clans band together.

We spoke with showrunners Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Declan De Barra on bringing this historic world to life and casting the new characters.

Lead actors Sophie Brown and Laurence O’Fuarain talk about working together as enemies turned allies and their explosive opening seen together whilst Zach Wyatt and Lizzie Annis speak about creating their incredible bond on the show.

Francesca Mills and Huw Novelli talk about comparing their weapons and both of their dramatic whilst Joey Batey and Lenny Henry speak on being familiar and new to The Witcher universe.

Finally, Minnie Drive speaks about playing an ancient mystical elf and bringing a serenity to her narration.