FANTASTIC BEASTS MAXES OUT WITH MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS GUILD NOMINATIONS

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild has announced its 2016 awards nominations across 23 categories, five of them for film. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them leads with the maximum amount of mentions over the five available categories, taking three nominations, and all of them for makeup artist extraordinaire Fae Hammond! Award winners will be announced on the 19th of February.

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up

Alessandro Bertolazzi (Suicide Squad)

Jean Ann Black, Zoe Hay and Julie Hewett (Hail, Caesar!)

Fae Hammond and Marilyn MacDonald (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

Julia Lallas and Katie Middleton (Loving)

Jeremy Woodhead (Doctor Strange)

Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

Cydney Cornell, Matt Danon and Pauletta Lewis-Irwin (Hail, Caesar!)

Fae Hammond and Marilyn MacDonald (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

J.Roy Helland (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Catherine Leblanc-Caraes and Tony Rochetti (Jackie)

Elizabeth Paschall and Kenneth Walker (Loving)

Best Contemporary Make-Up

Liz Bernstrom and Sherryn Smith (Manchester by the Sea)

Akemi Hart and Karen McDonald (Captain Fantastic)

Donald Mowat, Elaine Offers and Malanie J. Romero (Nocturnal Animals)

Angel Radefeld-Wright and Torsten Witte (La La Land)

Maurizio Silvi (Zoolander 2)

Best Contemporary Hair Styling

Frida Aradottir, Barbara Lorenz and Jackie Masteran (La La Land)

Alan d'Angerio (The Girl on the Train)

Patricia Dehaney and Jose Zamora (Sully)

Jules Holdren and Yolanda Toussieng (Nocturnal Animals)

Aldo Signoretti (Zoolander 2)

Best Special Make-Up Effects

Richie Alonzo and Joel Harlow (Star Trek Beyond)

Andrew Clement and Bill Corso (Deadpool)

Fae Hammond (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

Christopher Nelson, Greg Nicotero and Sean Sansom (Suicide Squad)

Jeremy Woodhead (Doctor Strange)

REVIEW - FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (DAVID YATES)

You want fantastic? Good, because you can definitely find it here. David Yates and J. K. Rowling lighten up for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, newly untethered to the demands of a narrative-in-progress, buoyed by the opportunity to riff on material that's so very familiar to them both. If their winsome magic was occasionally all on which the Harry Potter films had to go, it's not necessarily a drawback to note that Fantastic Beasts inevitably loses some such magic in the changes made. What it gains is an equally-agreeable freedom, a looseness in tone and plot in which Rowling appears to delight, and in which Yates follows suit. By now, these two know how to get to where they're going, and so indulge in one cheeky little tangent after another along the route - Fantastic Beasts rollicks from one silly setpiece to the next, and, if anything, it's those scenes which are devoted toward the development of plot that feel like they're intruding. Yates is a fine director of darkness, though, and is once again blessed by the presence of yet another brilliant cinematographer in Philippe Rousselot; as ever, one of the principal joys of these Harry Potter-related pictures is their artistic and technical beauty, and particular, predictable credit must go to the increasingly invaluable Stuart Craig on production design. They bring the fantasy to fantastic life in this uncommonly winning blockbuster, enlivened further by an attractive sense of social conscience and some charming performances. Half a star off for a reproachable twist, for not knowing when to end, and for the single most appalling use of slo-mo 3D in film history.