Judy Chin

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

2003: House of Sand and Fog

2004: National Treasure

2005: The Ballad of Jack and Rose

2005: Broken Flowers

2006: The Fountain

2007: Across the Universe

2008: Smart People

2008: Jumper

2008: Sex and the City

2008: Synecdoche, New York

2008: The Wrestler

2009: Bored to Death

2010: Sex and the City 2

2010: Black Swan

2010: The Tempest

2011: The Playboy Club

2012: The Dictator

2013: Oz the Great and Powerful

2013: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

2014: Noah

2014: Birdman

2014: While We're Young

2015: Irrational Man

2015: Bridge of Spies

2016: Pee-wee's Big Holiday

2016: Money Monster

2016: American Pastoral

2017: The Meyerowitz Stories

2017: Mother!

2017: Wonder

2017: The Post

2018: Maniac

2019: The Dead Don't Die

2019: Little Women

2020: Greyhound

2020: The Glorias

2021: tick, tick...boom!

2021: West Side Story

2022: The Whale

Selected awards and nominations
2001: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup For A Series (non-prosthetic), for Sex and the City

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

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)

2003: Won a BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair, for Frida (sharing the award with Beatrice De Alba, John Jackson, and Regina Reyes)

2011: Nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Make-Up and Hair, for Black Swan (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)