Thursday Movie Picks: Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Oscar Winners Edition)

Wandering through the Shelves hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday’s theme and explain why you chose those movies.

Today’s theme is Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Oscar Winners Edition) so here are my choices!

Best Costume Design: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

IMO, Mad Max: Fury Road should have won the Oscar for Best Picture! I don’t like to use the word “masterpiece” often, but I truly find this film to be a masterpiece. The acting, directing… everything. I loved the costumes in this movie. A near-perfect reflection of a future dystopia. This is a movie I watch a lot, especially if it’s on television. I just can’t turn away!

Best Costume Design: LOTR - The Return of the King (2003)

I absolutely love these films, which you can tell by all of the previous TMP: Oscar Editions where I’ve chosen one of the films from the trilogy. But I do think the costumes in these films were so fabulous. From the elves to hobbits, even the orcs, the detailing is exquisite. I nearly chose this for Best Makeup, too, but I resisted – somehow.

Best Costume Design: Moulin Rouge! (2001)

I need to watch Moulin Rouge! again. But this is such a fun, romantic, tragic movie, and I adore the entire look of it, including the costumes. Has Nicole Kidman ever looked more beautiful than as Satine? Catherine Martin (the designer) also won an Oscar for The Great Gatsby and deserved it.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Full disclosure: I have never seen An American Werewolf in London! But I’ve always meant to, and I always felt like it’s makeup and effects were so impressive given the time period when it was filmed. I also realized that my pics for Best Makeup are all from horror films (or comedy horror as the next pick) so… theme within a theme! But yes, I love that a horror movie won an Oscar because I don’t think it happens as often as it should.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Beetlejuice (1988)

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! I absolutely love this movie. Michael Keaton is at his finest. Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, Jeffrey Jones, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, etc., etc.! It’s so fun and funny, and it’s one I definitely want to revisit this Halloween. But it’s not just the makeup of Beetlejuice himself, but all of the characters and those of the dead. I honestly hadn’t known this movie won an Oscar for it, and I was thrilled when I discovered it had won for today’s post.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

You can read my review of Dracula here. While I found the movie itself a bit middle of the road in terms of quality, I think the look of the film is really beautiful, and I love how they were able to transform Gary Oldman into so many variations of Dracula. I really do believe it deserved the Oscar, and if anything in this movie “holds up” today, it’s the makeup.
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