01.16.23
Actress, director and executive producer Angela Bassett will be honored with the 2023 Distinguished Artisan Award, the Make-up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild announced today.
She will accept the honor at the annual MUAHS Awards, celebrating the 10th anniversary and presented by Dyson and Hask Beauty, on Saturday, February 11 at The Beverly Hilton.
Bassett is most recently acclaimed for her creative work on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” for which she has received a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award nomination, in addition to the hit primetime television drama "9-1-1."
"Local 706 wishes to show its appreciation to Angela Bassett, who has portrayed amazingly iconic women we can all relate to,” said Julie Socash, president of IATSE Local 706, who made the announcement on Monday. “She boldly collaborates with her 706 make-up and hair teams to extend their imaginations and develop magical but always relatable characters you will remember forever - from the beloved Queen Ramonda to feisty Tina Turner to Bernadine in Waiting to Exhale. We couldn't think of a better person to help us celebrate our 10th anniversary," said Socash.
The Distinguished Artisan Award will celebrate the prolific spectrum of Bassett's versatile career on screen and television. The award honors talent that has created memorable characters throughout their career, richly enhanced by the consistent collaboration of make-up and hairstyling artistry. Previous legendary recipients include Jon Favreau, Eddie Murphy, Johnny Depp, Ryan Murphy, Guillermo del Toro, Sir Patrick Stewart, Melissa McCarthy, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale and Dick Smith.
Bassett is an actress, director, and executive producer known for captivating, emotionally-tinged performances full of dignity in films such as “Waiting to Exhale,” “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” and the Tina Turner biopic, “What's Love Got to Do with It,” for which she received an Academy Award nomination. She played Queen Ramonda in Marvel Studios' “Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” for which she recently won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She recently wrapped production on the Netflix Originals feature film, Damsel, opposite Millie Bobby Brown.
Apple Original Films announced the documentary feature, "Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood," to be directed by Shola Lynch with Bassett and Halle Berry on board as executive producers and will debut globally on AppleTV+.