Judy Chin
American makeup artist
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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, for
Frida (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]