Best Make-up and Hairstyling

The shortlist for what will be considered for the Best Make-up and Hairstyling Academy Award:

• Hitchock
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Les Miserables
• Lincoln
• Looper
• Men in Black 3
• Snow White & the Huntsman

Snubbed: The Impossible, Holy Motors

Best Make-up

Far and away the nuttiest category on the Oscar ballot...for which we can thank for forever qualifying movies like Norbit and Click as Oscar nominees have announced their semi-finalist for the Best Make-Up Academy Award.  None such dubious selections this year as the seven films vying will be:

• Albert Nobbs
• Anonymous
• The Artist
• Gainsbourgh: A Heroic Life
• Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Hugo
• The Iron Lady

While I'm no fan of The Iron Lady, the make-up and aging process of Ms. Streep is pretty immaculate.

Missing: the aging prosthesis used to make Leonardo DiCaprio old-man J. Edgar. 

Best Make-up

Perhaps the oddest oddball category in the Academy Awards is Make-up.  Not that the artistry involved is odd, but there's always a curveball come nomination time.  And this is one category that has had the unfortunate case of calling films like Norbit an Academy Award Nominee.  The seven semi-finalists for the best make-up Oscar are:

Jonah Hex on the road to Oscar!@#$

• Alice in Wonderland
• Barney's Version
• The Fighter
• Jonah Hex
• True Grit
• The Way Back
• The Wolfman

If Jonah Hex eventually becomes an Oscar nominee, I'm giving up...