It's Oscars 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.
Tené 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).
Tené'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 stylings for 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.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this post stated incorrectly that Tené Wilder had personally been nominated for a Hair and Makeup Oscar for her work on Sinners. In fact, Academy Awards rules limit the ballot in this category to just the Hair Designer and two Makeup Artists; while Ms. Wilder's role as Key Hairstylist contributed significantly to the Sinners Hair and Makeup team's Oscar nomination, she was not personally named in the award.
