Explaining ‘The Substance’ Academy Awards Dispute Over the Recipients of the Hair and Makeup Oscar

Explaining ‘The Substance’ Academy Awards Dispute Over the Recipients of the Hair and Makeup Oscar

Although otherwise “The Substance” had monstrous luck at the 2025 Academy Awards, Coralie Fargeat’s horror film starring Demi Moore did walk away with one Oscar for Best Hair and Makeup Design, as it was favored to do. Now, however, producer Nicolas Royer has weighed in on acrimony between members of the hair and makeup team that has been brewing both before and after the Oscar ceremony. 

You might well think that an entire team would qualify equally for an Academy Award; or that…