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.

Selected film and television work

1989: '' The Unbelievable Truth''
1998: '' Montana''
2000: '' Requiem for a Dream''
2000–2004: '' Sex and the City''
2002: '' Life Without Dick''
2002: '' Frida''
2003: ''

Coffee and Cigarettes ''Coffee and Cigarettes'' is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature-length anthology film by independent film director Jim Jarmusch. The feature film consists of 11 short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread ...

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2003: '' House of Sand and Fog''
2004: '' National Treasure''
2005: '' The Ballad of Jack and Rose''
2005: ''

Broken Flowers ''Broken Flowers'' is a 2005 French-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging "Don Juan" who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of ...

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2006: '' The Fountain''
2007: ''

Across the Universe "Across the Universe" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song first appeared on the 1969 various artists' charity compilation album ''No One's Gonna Change Our W ...

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2008: '' Smart People''
2008: ''

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2008: '' Sex and the City''
2008: ''

Synecdoche, New York ''Synecdoche, New York'' (pronounced ) is a 2008 American postmodern psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an ailing theater director who works on an incr ...

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2008: ''

The Wrestler The Wrestler may refer to: * ''The Wrestler'' (1974 film), an American film directed by James A. Westman * ''The Wrestler'' (2008 film), an American film directed by Darren Aronofsky * "The Wrestler" (song), a song from the 2008 film written and ...

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2009: ''

Bored to Death ''Bored to Death'' is an American comedy series that ran on HBO from September 20, 2009, to November 28, 2011. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames—a writer based in Brooklyn, Ne ...

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2010: '' Sex and the City 2''
2010: ''

Black Swan The black swan (''Cygnus atratus'') is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia, the black swan is nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon c ...

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2010: '' The Tempest''
2011: ''

The Playboy Club ''The Playboy Club'' is an American historical crime drama television series that aired on NBC from September 19 to October 3, 2011. Set in 1961, the series centers on the employees (known as Bunnies) of the original Playboy Club operating in Ch ...

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2012: '' The Dictator''
2013: '' Oz the Great and Powerful''
2013: '' Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight''
2014: ''

Noah Noah ''Nukh''; am, ኖህ, ''Noḥ''; ar, نُوح '; grc, Νῶε ''Nôe'' () is the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Genesis, chapters 5– ...

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2014: '' Birdman''
2014: '' While We're Young''
2015: ''

Irrational Man ''Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy'' is a 1958 book by the philosopher William Barrett, in which the author explains the philosophical background of existentialism and provides a discussion of several major existentialist thinke ...

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2015: '' Bridge of Spies''
2016: '' Pee-wee's Big Holiday''
2016: '' Money Monster''
2016: ''

American Pastoral ''American Pastoral'' is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle cla ...

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2017: '' The Meyerowitz Stories''
2017: '' Mother!''
2017: '' Wonder''
2017: '' The Post''
2018: ''

Maniac Maniac (from Greek μανιακός, ''maniakos'') is a pejorative for an individual who experiences the mood known as mania. In common usage, it is also an insult for someone involved in reckless behavior. Maniac may also refer to: Film * ' ...

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2019: '' The Dead Don't Die''
2019: ''

Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...

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2020: '' Greyhound''
2020: ''

The Glorias ''The Glorias'' is a 2020 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Julie Taymor, from a screenplay by Taymor and Sarah Ruhl. The film is based upon ''My Life on the Road'' by Gloria Steinem who is represented by four actresses in ...

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2021: '' tick, tick...boom!''
2021: '' West Side Story''
2022: '' The Whale''

Selected awards and nominations

2001: Nominated for an

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

for Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic), for '' Sex and the City''
2003: Nominated for an

for Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic), for '' Sex and the City''
2003: Won a

BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair, which is presented to make-up artists and hairstylists, given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 1983. Winners and nominees 1980s ;B ...

, for '' Frida'' (sharing the award with Beatrice De Alba,

John Jackson John or Johnny Jackson may refer to: Entertainment Art * John Baptist Jackson (1701–1780), British artist * John Jackson (painter) (1778–1831), British painter * John Jackson (engraver) (1801–1848), English wood engraver * John Richardson ...

, and Regina Reyes)
2011: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make-Up and Hair, for ''

'' (sharing the nomination with Geordie Sheffer)
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)
2022: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make Up & Hair, for '' The Whale'' (sharing the nomination with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)
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
2023: Won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, for '' The Whale'' (sharing the award with Adrien Morot and Annemarie Bradley)

References

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