British Independent Film Award for Best Make-Up & Hair Design

The British Independent Film Award for Best Make-Up & Hair Design is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best make-up and hair design in a British independent film. The award was first presented in the 2017 ceremony.

British Independent Film Award for Best Make-Up & Hair Design
Awarded for	Best Make-Up and Hair Design
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BIFA
First award	2017
Currently held by	Unicorns – Lisa Mustafa (2024)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

Prior to 2017, make-up was included in the category Best Technical Achievement alongside different areas of crafts in film, this category was presented from 2001 to 2016.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2017 (20th) [1][2]	The Death of Stalin	Nicole Stafford
	Breathe	Jan Sewellm and Mark Coulier
	I Am Not a Witch	Julene Paton
	Journeyman	Nadia Stacey
	Lady Macbeth	Sian Wilson
2018 (21st) [3][4]	The Favourite	Nadia Stacey
	Colette	Ivana Primorac
	Peterloo	Christine Blundell
	A Prayer Before Dawn	Stacey Louise Holman
	Stan & Ollie	Mark Coulier and Jeremy Woodhead
2019 (22nd) [5][6]	Judy	Jeremy Woodhead
	Dirty God	Morten Jacobsen, Rogier Samuels and Lindelotte Van Der Meer
	In Fabric	Emma Scott
	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Karen Hartley-Thomas
	Wild Rose	Jody Williams

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 (23rd) [7][8]	Misbehaviour	Jill Sweeney
	Ammonite	Ivana Primorac
	His House	Sharon A. Martin
	Rocks	Nora Robertson
	Saint Maud	Jacquetta Levon
2021 (24th) [9]	The Electrical Life of Louis Wain	Vickie Lang, Kristyan Mallett and Donald McInnes
	Belfast	Wakana Yoshihara
	Censor	Ruth Pease
	Everybody's Talking About Jamie	Nadia Stacey
	The Souvenir Part II	Siobhan Harper-Ryan
2022 (25th) [10][11]	Medusa Deluxe	Eugene Souleiman, Scarlett O'Connell
	Aftersun	Oya Aygör and Murat Çağin
	Flux Gourmet	Siobhan Harper-Ryan
	The Origin	Niamh Morrison
	The Wonder	Morna Ferguson and Lorry Ann King
2023 (26th) [12][13]	Femme	Marie Deehan
	All of Us Strangers	Zoe Clare Brown
	How to Have Sex	Natasha Lawes
	Polite Society	Claire Carter
	Rye Lane	Bianca Simone Scott
2024 (27th) [14]	Unicorns	Lisa Mustafa
	Back to Black	Peta Dunstall
	Firebrand	Jenny Shircore
	Love Lies Bleeding	Megan Daum and Frieda Valenzuela
	The Outrun	Kat Morgan