MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS SPLIT ACROSS THE BOARD

Kudos to the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild. They're capable of recognizing quality in their craft across a wide variety of titles, and their slate of award winners this year (and that for nominations) makes that quite evident. Five categories and five winners, and fairly smart choices on the whole. Take a look below:

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up

Alessandro Bertolazzi (Suicide Squad)

Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

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

Best Contemporary Make-Up

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

Best Contemporary Hair Styling

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

Best Special Make-Up Effects

Richie Alonzo and Joel Harlow (Star Trek Beyond)

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)

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD WINS TWO MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS

Just as it led the nominations, Mad Max: Fury Road led the award winners at the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild awards. It won two of its three nominations, while other awards were collected by Cinderella, Furious 7 and Pitch Perfect 2. Johnny Depp was on hand to hand out Lifetime Achievement Awards to two very deserving recipients: makeup designer Ve Neill, with whom Depp has worked on several occasions, and hairstylist Yolanda Toussieng. Nominees can be perused here, winners below:

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up

Nadine Prigge, Ailie Smith and Lesley Vanderwalt (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

Orla Carroll, Carol Hemming and Yoshihara Wakana (Cinderella)

Best Contemporary Make-Up

Autumn Butler, Rory d'Alonzo and James MacKinnon (Furious 7)

Best Contemporary Hair Styling

Daina Daigle, Meagan Herrera and Cheryl Marks (Pitch Perfect 2)

Best Special Make-Up Effects

Damian Martin, Jaco Snyman and Elka Wardega (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Lifetime Achievement Award

Ve Neill

Yolanda Toussieng

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD LEADS MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS GUILD NOMINATIONS

Who's surprised? Mad Max: Fury Road takes three nominations from the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild award nominations, leading the field. Guild voters disagreed with the Academy, shunning five of the seven films from its bake-off list entirely, including its two eventual fellow nominees alongside Mad Max. A whole bunch of films all received two nominations. Winners will be announced on the 20th of February. Check out their choices below:

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up

Naomi Donne and Norma Webb (Cinderella)

Morna Ferguson, Niamh O’Loan and Marlène Rouleau (Brooklyn)

Renata Gilbert and Jan Sewell (The Danish Girl)

Nadine Prigge, Ailie Smith and Lesley Vanderwalt (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Patricia Regan (Carol)

Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

Lorraine Brennan, Michelle Côté and Lorraine Glynn (Brooklyn)

Orla Carroll, Carol Hemming and Yoshihara Wakana (Cinderella)

Kylie Clark, Anita Morgan and Kerstin Weller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Jack Curtain, Jerry DeCarlo and Kay Georgiou (Carol)

Renata Gilbert and Jan Sewell (The Danish Girl)

Best Contemporary Make-Up

Autumn Butler, Roxy d’Alonzo and James MacKinnon (Furious 7)

Julie Hewett and Pamela Westmore (The Big Short)

Melanie Hughes-Weaver and Judy Yonemoto (Pitch Perfect 2)

Donald Mowat (Sicario)

Matteo Silvi and Maurizio Silvi (Youth)

Best Contemporary Hair Styling

Daina Daigle, Meagan Herrera and Cheryl Marks (Pitch Perfect 2)

Linda Flowers and Sarah Love (Spy)

Linda Flowers, Jennifer Santiago and Lesa Williams (Furious 7)

Sian Grigg and Charlotte Rogers (Ex Machina)

Zoe Tahir (Spectre)

Best Special Make-Up Effects

Sian Grigg, Charlotte Rogers and Tristan Versluis (Ex Machina)

Joel Harlow, Kenny Niederbaumer and Khanh Trance (Black Mass)

Glenn Hetrick and Ve Neill (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2)

Damian Martin, Jaco Snyman and Elka Wardega (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Neal Scanlan (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)