Judy Chin is an Academy Award-winning American makeup artist, having won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for The Whale in 2023 (sharing the award with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley). With this win, she became the first woman of Asian descent to win the Academy Award in that category.
She worked for the New York City Opera for four years, where she learned to use pancake makeup.
1989: The Unbelievable Truth<br /> 1998: Montana<br /> 2000: Requiem for a Dream<br /> 2000âÂÂ2004: Sex and the City<br /> 2002: Life Without Dick<br /> 2002: Frida<br /> 2003: Coffee and Cigarettes<br /> 2003: House of Sand and Fog<br /> 2004: National Treasure<br /> 2005: The Ballad of Jack and Rose<br /> 2005: Broken Flowers<br /> 2006: The Fountain<br /> 2007: Across the Universe<br /> 2008: Smart People<br /> 2008: Jumper<br /> 2008: Sex and the City<br /> 2008: Synecdoche, New York<br /> 2008: The Wrestler<br /> 2009: Bored to Death<br /> 2010: Sex and the City 2<br /> 2010: Black Swan<br /> 2010: The Tempest<br /> 2011: The Playboy Club<br /> 2012: The Dictator<br /> 2013: Oz the Great and Powerful<br /> 2013: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight<br /> 2014: Noah<br /> 2014: Birdman<br /> 2014: While We're Young<br /> 2015: Irrational Man<br /> 2015: Bridge of Spies<br /> 2016: Pee-wee's Big Holiday<br /> 2016: Money Monster<br /> 2016: American Pastoral<br /> 2017: The Meyerowitz Stories<br /> 2017: Mother!<br /> 2017: Wonder<br /> 2017: The Post<br /> 2018: Maniac<br /> 2019: The Dead Don't Die<br /> 2019: Little Women<br /> 2020: Greyhound<br /> 2020: The Glorias<br /> 2021: tick, tick...boom!<br /> 2021: West Side Story<br /> 2022: The Whale
2001: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic), for Sex and the City<br /> 2003: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic), for Sex and the City<br /> 2003: Nominated for a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award for Best Period Makeup for a Feature Film, for Frida (sharing the nomination with Maryann Marchetti and John E. Jackson)<br /> 2003: Won a BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair, for Frida (sharing the award with Beatrice De Alba, John Jackson, and Regina Reyes)<br /> 2011: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make-Up and Hair, for Black Swan (sharing the nomination with Geordie Sheffer)<br /> 2022: Nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association Creative Arts Award for Makeup and Hairstyling, for The Whale (sharing the nomination with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)<br /> 2022: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make Up & Hair, for The Whale (sharing the nomination with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)<br /> 2022: The Whale, which Chin among others worked on the makeup of, was nominated for Best Hair and Makeup at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards<br /> 2023: Won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, for The Whale (sharing the award with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)