Academy Award Winner | BAFTA Winner | Emmy Winner
Academy Award® Win 2020 – Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
BAFTA Win 2020 - Best Make Up/Hair (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Emmy Win 2009 – Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Miniseries - Grey Gardens
Emmy Nominee 2009 – Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries - Grey Gardens
Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild Awards 2025 Nominee - Feature-Length Motion Picture (Shared with Sarah Graalman, Melanie Licata - It Ends With Us)
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards Nominee - Best Contemporary Makeup - Feature-Length Motion Picture (Shared with Monica Huppert, Autumn Butler - Spirited)
Awards Circuit Community Award Win 2020 - Best Makeup & Hairstyling (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle Awards Win 2020 - Best Makeup (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Gold Derby Award Win - Makeup/Hair (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Gold Derby Award Nomination - Makeup/Hair of the Decade (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Hollywood Critics Association Win - Best Hair and Makeup (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards Win - Best Special Makeup Effects - Feature-Length Motion Picture (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guilds Awards Win - Best Contemporary Makeup - Feature-Length Motion Picture (Shared with Cristina Waltz, Richard Redlefsen - Bombshell)
Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Awards Win - Best Hair and Makeup (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Online Film & Television Association Win - Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Shared with Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan - Bombshell)
Press
MUAH Nominations
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) has announced nominations for the 2025 MUAHS Guild Awards.
Among them for Best Contemporary Makeup in a Feature-Length Motion Picture: It Ends With Us Sarah Graalman, Vivian Baker, Melanie Licata
MUAH Nominations
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) has announced nominations for the 2023 MUAHS Guild Awards.
Among them for Best Contemporary Makeup in a Feature-Length Motion Picture: Spirited
Monica Huppert, Autumn J. Butler, Vivian Baker
WE SPEAK BEAUTY PODCAST
Episode 63 - We are pleased to have Vivian Baker on this week's show.
Vivian Baker is an Academy Award® winning, BAFTA winning, Emmy Award winning makeup artist with over 30 years of experience in the industry. She has worked on over 60 films and TV shows including Bombshell, Guardians of the Galaxy, Grey Gardens, House, Jurassic World, and Avengers to name a few.
AN OSCAR-WINNING MAKEUP PRO SHARES HER 5 GO-TO PRODUCTS
In this series beauty expert John-Paul Ricchio spotlights some of the world’s most fascinating beauty obsessives and asks them to share the products they can’t live without. Up next is award-winning makeup artist, Vivian Baker.
INSIDER
[Bryce Dallas] Howard added that she paired the ombré dress with magenta Alexander McQueen pumps that she's had in her closet for years… In the same Instagram post, she added that she also did her own hair and makeup with "virtual direction" from hairstylist Jason Low and makeup artist Vivian Baker.
The Morning Show Australia
‘Bombshell’ makeup artist Vivian Baker on Charlize Theron’s transformation into Megyn Kelly
Bombshell is already one of the hottest films around…
Los Angeles Times
How this 'Bombshell' team turned Charlize Theron into Megyn Kelly
Hiro, makeup department head Vivian Baker and hair department lead Anne Morgan, who have all been nominated for the makeup and hairstyling Oscar, sat ...
Below the Line
Oscar Contender: Bombshell Make-Up and Hair Styling ...
Brought in first, Hiro then needed to secure a makeup department head and hair department head, critical roles given to makeup veteran Vivian Baker and ...
Elle
How Bryce Dallas Howard Got Ready for a Special NYC Screening of Argylle
“Not every day that you get to work with the king of fashion and the queen of movies (a.k.a. Orlando Pita and Vivian Baker).”
VANITY FAIR
There’s an aphorism [Bryce Dallas Howard] finds herself coming back to, she says, “a phrase I learned from makeup artist Vivian Baker, who won an Oscar a couple of years ago.
She always says that when we’re on set, and things are getting a little hairy, and people are being pulled in a bunch of different directions, ‘My loyalty is to the screen.’ And I love it.”
WE SPEAK BEAUTY PODCAST
Episode 64 - Part two of our interview with Vivian Baker, who is an Academy Award® winning, BAFTA winning, Emmy Award-winning makeup artist with over 30 years of experience in the industry.
She has worked on over 60 films and TV shows including Bombshell, Guardians of the Galaxy, Grey Gardens, House, Jurassic World, and Avengers to name a few.
THE SPECIAL STORY BEHIND BRYCE DALLAS HOARD’S GOLDEN GLOBES DRESS
And when it came to her glam, she decided to do her own hair and makeup—with some virtual direction from hairstylist Jason Low and makeup artist Vivian Baker.
Entertainment Weekly
… as much as Barrymore's talent pushed her to new places as an actor, the transformation also had to be physical, and the team worked with Oscar-winning makeup artist Vivian Baker to paint the star into an entirely new identity while in character as Paula.
The CITIZENS
Conyers native Vivian Baker brings home an Oscar for Makeup and Hairstyling
The Hollywood Reporter
'Bombshell's' Prosthetic Makeup Designer Reveals How He Created "Believable, Subtle" Looks
IndieWire
Watch Step-By-Step Video of Makeup Master Kazu Hiro Transforming Charlize Theron Into Megyn Kelly in ‘Bombshell’ — Exclusive
This video demonstrates why the Oscar-winning prosthetic makeup artist and his team are the favorites to win again.
ELLE
Inside Charlize Theron's Oscar-Nominated Bombshell Movie Transformation into Megyn Kelly
Lead makeup artist Vivian Baker reportedly topped the prosthetics with heavy contouring and customized lashes from Lashify. Hair department head Anne Morgan …