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: 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)