OSCAR PREJUDICE: Hellboy 2 Loses "Best Make-up" Oscar to The Curious Case of Who the Hell Cares

I had some piss poor comments for that choice as well. I thought "You turned Ron Perlman into FREAKIN' HELLBOY! How the HELL did Brad Pitt as an old man beat that?!!?" But, who the hell am I yelling at a TV screen, right? I agree with you though, Hellboy should have totally won for makeup...

And Hellboy wasnt the only cool makeup in Hellboy2! The Angel of Death and Mr Wink were as awesome as well! And they didnt use any CGI at all to make those 3! Stupid voters.

Well, not only did Benjamin Button have incredible make-up, but it was also extremely life-like and realistic. Hellboy II did have good make-up, but it lacked texture and a lot of the creatures also used prosthetics which doesn't really count towards make-up.

I think that hellboy II and iron man should have pull down a few to. The thing is its comics and the acamdy doesn't like comics. they almost always give it to the little movies like slumdog. To me slumdog was good but nothing that has been made before.

Dartheyegouger - don't know how to break this to you, but prosthetic makeup is STILL makeup!! As a prosthetic makeup artist, I know first hand what a pain in the ass it can be for a makeup artist to transform an actor into the character you see on screen, so kudos to ALL the makeup artists nominated! While as a fanboy, I was disappointed that 'Hellboy' didn't win, I must admit that 'Benjamin Button' did have an incredible makeup challenge admirably met by Greg Cannom. By the way, Mr. Cannom (who's work can be seen in such movies as 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'White Chicks' and the upcoming 'Watchmen' - yes, THAT 'Watchmen') specializes in transfomation makeup and utlilzes custom-made PROSETHTIC appliances to achieve the desired effect. You were saying something about 'prosthetics' not really counting as makeup...?

ur rite bro but at least Heath Ledger got his award
im wondering how come Dark Knight wasn't nominated for Best Picture
Iron Man also got snubbed by benjamin button for visual effects R U KIDDING ME Iron man had so many more visual effects than button did all they had was an old guy getting younger visual effects was pretty much most of the ironman movie

@ Colossus8: The visual effects team on Benjamin Button invented a new technique for the movie in which they scan an actor's facial movements as he is talking and use those motions with a CGI face.

HE JUST LOOOKED OLD!!!!! if thats the case every movie that rapidly ages or de ages someone should get a oscar wait...thats like giving eddie murphy an oscar in make up for coming to america for being the white jewish guy through the movie haha im 19 and i jus tfound out a couple yrs ago that was him still hard to believe

Set - any makeup artist will tell you, 'BELIEVABLE' old-age makeup is some of the trickiest work to do. It takes a TON of skill to a. make an appliace (or in this case, a series of appliances) that look realistic (wrinkles, folds of skin, sagging, etc.), b. apply them properly so that you can't tell where the prosthetic ends and the actor's real face begins, and c. color it properly to make the whole thing look realistic - there are a LOT of colors and details in human skin that aren't apparent, but if they were missing the viewer would be able to tell that something wasn't 'right'. It takes a makeup artist of Cannom's skill to able to pull it off properly...

The fact is that Benjamin Button managed to do something that the academy hadn't seen before, and like dartheyegouger said they invented a new technique (the academy is always a sucker for new techniques). The fact that almost every regular viewer thinks the effects were unempressive just shows how good they were.

I know Button was boring as hell, and the story seemed traced form Forrest Gump (also I found it extremely creepy seeing a 70 year old man and a 10 year old girl hiding under a bed at midnight), but putting all that aside the effects were good and the award was for best effects, not best effects in a non boring movie.

Button was nominated for too many awards not to win some. Hellby definitely got snubbed, but it's okay whatever Guillermo's next movie is I am sure will win in this category.

ffs stop being nerds and accept that button was fukin epic make up,

I know - that sucked!

Stan Winston did not actually make the suit. He only managed his company, he had others creating the suit. It is worthy of a nomination, but Benjamin Button, as someone mentioned earlier, created new visual effects techniques specifically for the film. Iron Man did not, sorry.

the academy awards should essentially be called The Drama Movie Awards. Any movie outside the genre of Drama or Dramatic rarely gets any recognition. Was still heartbroken to see Hellboy II not win.

also props to CBM for editing my article. was extremely tired last night when I wrote it and it was probably much less understandable than what you see now.

Dartheyegouger you are probably the first person I would ever want to ban from posting on this site ever again. Luckily for you that is beyond my control..but I will say this The Curious Case of Benjamin Button did not and I mean did not deserve to win the make-up Oscar. Hellboy II was indeed superb when it comes to make-up (and yes tard prosthetic MAKE UP is MAKE UP!!). Hellboy II deserved that Oscar...Nuff Said

thenewfrontiersman - um, just because they created new VISUAL EFFECTS techniques specifically for the film does not qualify them for the 'Best MAKEUP' category. That honor belongs to Gerg Cannom and his team for developing and applying the old-age appliaces that PHYSICALLY made Brad Pitt the way he did in the film. And you are correct, Winston's studio designed the 'Iron Man' suits, but that doesn't quailfy them for the 'Best MAKEUP' award either...

Just goes to show that it doesn't matter how amazing Ron looks as Hell Boy it is not match for a good eye-liner and just the right shade of foundation.

Come on people! Off the top of my head I can't remember ANY makeup that beats Ron as the big red guy! It's as perfect as perfect can be!

Three words should have been shouted out at the announcement, "ARE YOU PROFFESSIONAL!"

@Dartheyegouger
How can prothetics not be make-up and CGI be accepted as make-up? CGI isn't even there! Prothetics are practical! seriously!

half the time Brad Pitt wasn't even there! Just some little kid w/ old ppl skin or something dumb like that!