It is Oscar season!
Among the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' leading candidates for Best Picture is Sinners. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan and Wunmi Mosaku among many others, Sinners has earned a record 16 Oscar nominations, including not only best picture but also best original screenplay, best directing and best makeup and hairstyling.
A key hairstylist on the Sinner’s team grew up in the Baltimore area.
Tene Wilder — a former proprietor of the Wilder Experience, a Baltimore salon and spa — was part of a skilled group of makeup designers and hairstylists for Sinners; her role was to develop story-driven hairstyles for actresses Wunmi Mosaku (as Annie, pictured below), Li Jun Li (Grace Chow) and Lola Kirke (Joan).
Tene's stylings have appeared in both movies and television. She won an Emmy in 2021 for Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling on FX’s series, Pose. Tene’s recent work includes Netflix’s “His & Hers,” which reached Number 1 on the streaming platform charts in January.
The Oscars will be presented in a televised ceremony in Los Angeles on March 15.
