HILLBILLY ELEGY

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Yale Law student J.D. must return to his hometown to push his mother Bev, a longtime drug addict, into entering rehab. As he deals with Bev, J.D. also wrestles with the poverty, despair and deep-seated Appalachian traditions that have shaped his family.

Glenn Close

Having left the hillbilly Appalachian backwoods of Kentucky for rural Ohio, Mamaw deals with her addict daughter and her bright young grandson, who turns to her for guidance.

One thing working in Glenn Close’s favor is that the Academy tends to love performances where actors and actresses disappear into the role. Makeup played a big part in helping her transform for the role, but credit has to go to Close for being unrecognizable as Mamaw. Despite not altering her appearance, however, I think Yun-Jung Youn gave the more heartfelt grandmother performance. And I believe that will win over transformation.

1982 (55th)	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	“The World According to Garp”	NOMINATED
1983 (56th)	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	“The Big Chill”	NOMINATED
1984 (57th)	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	“The Natural”	NOMINATED
1987 (60th)	Best Actress in a Leading Role	“Fatal Attraction”	NOMINATED
1989 (61st)	Best Actress in a Leading Role	“Dangerous Liaisons”	NOMINATED
2011 (84th)	Best Actress in a Leading Role	“Albert Nobbs”	NOMINATED
2018 (91st)	Best Actress in a Leading Role	“The Wife”	NOMINATED

Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney

Helping an actor or actress transform for a role is a considerable makeup undertaking. For that, I feel like “Hillbilly Elegy” could end up winning. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is the pundit’s pick for the front-runner, but I could also see “Mank” making a case for the gold. Of those three, it’s a bit of a toss-up, but “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is the one that seems the more solid choice at the moment.

Eryn Krueger Mekash

— 1st time Nominees —

Matthew Mungle

1992 (65th)	Best Makeup	“Bram Stoker’s Dracula”	WON
1993 (66th)	Best Makeup	“Schindler’s List”	NOMINATED
1996 (69th)	Best Makeup	“Ghosts of Mississippi”	NOMINATED
2011 (84th)	Best Makeup	“Albert Nobbs”	NOMINATED

Patricia Dehaney

2018 (91st)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

“Vice”

WON