The ‘Oscars of Beauty’ is back Friday, April 10th, 2026 in the heart of Hollywood at The Taglyan Complex.
The 11th Hollywood Beauty Awards just announced their Outstanding Achievement honorees and among them is 12x Academy Award nominee and 4x winner Colleen Atwood. Not only did she design for One Battle After Another, but she is a longtime collaborator with Tim Burton. She also designed for Netflix’s global hit Wednesday and Kiss of the Spider Woman with Jennifer Lopez.
Outstanding Achievement honorees are recognized with lifetime achievement honors for their enduring contributions to film, music, and television. In tribute to each honoree’s legacy, three nominees whose work centers on red carpet and editorial artistry compete annually in a category bearing the honoree’s name.
Honorees will accept their awards in person during the black-tie dinner ceremony. The evening will unfold under the theme “The Beauty of Spring ~ La Beauté du Printemps,” celebrating renewal, creativity, and artistry in bloom. For the ninth consecutive year, the HBAs will continue to spotlight the beauty of animal rescue awareness, benefiting Helen Woodward Animal Center.
The 2026 nominees will be announced on February 3rd, at which time public voting will open through March 3rd. To ensure a broad and inclusive celebration of skill, artistry, and diversity within the beauty industry, the HBAs recognize two hairstyling nominee categories and two makeup nominee categories, allowing for expanded acknowledgment across creative disciplines.
The 2026 Honorees are:
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling
Bonnie Clevering
Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling
Robert L. Stevenson
Outstanding Achievement in Makeup
Zabrina Matiru
Outstanding Achievement in SFX Makeup
Ken Diaz
Outstanding Achievement in Photography
Peggy Sirota
Colleen Atwood has shaped the visual language of film and television for more than four decades. A four-time Academy Award® winner, three-time BAFTA recipient, and two-time Emmy winner, she has received a dozen Oscar® nominations and collaborated with directors including Tim Burton, Jonathan Demme, and Rob Marshall. Her work spans genres and eras, helping define some of cinema’s most iconic characters through costumes that balance imagination, character, and storytelling. After moving to New York in the early 1980s, she entered the film industry unexpectedly as a production assistant on Ragtime, where designing accessories gradually led her into costuming. A major turning point came with Joe Versus the Volcano, where she met production designer Bo Welch, who introduced her to Tim Burton. Their first collaboration, Edward Scissorhands, launched a creative partnership that now spans 13 films, including Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The costume designer for Netflix’s global hit Wednesday, she continues to define visually unforgettable characters across film and television. Most recently, Colleen designed the costumes for Kiss of the Spider Woman, as well as One Battle After Another, which earned a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination this year.
Bonnie Clevering began working in motion picture hairstyling in the 1960s and has since built a career spanning more than five decades, with over 120 film and television credits. She entered the industry through day checking at MGM under Mary Keats, then continued her training in Los Angeles, where she was mentored by Keats alongside Larry Germain and Jean Burt Reilly. Her filmography includes Hello, Dolly!, Speedway, RoboCop, Office Space, Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven, Any Given Sunday, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Friday Night Lights, and The Twilight Saga. Throughout her career, Clevering collaborated with performers across multiple generations, including Julia Roberts, Hilary Swank, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Kristen Stewart, Tim Allen, Bette Davis and more. Several of these collaborations became defining character moments, from Nancy Sinatra in Speedway to Aniston in Office Space, Lopez in Out of Sight, Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Pitt in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Stewart across Twilight: Eclipse and Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2. In 2001, Clevering was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Her memoir, Continuity by Bonnie Clevering, was released in September 2025 by Punctuate Press. She is currently an Executive Producer on the Feature Film, Double-Vinyl Album, and VR Video Game for the ground-breaking project Rebuilding Twilight.
In 1970, Robert L. Stevenson stepped onto the Universal lot as an apprentice, entering the industry through a federal initiative designed to open doors for minority artists, doors he would go on to widen himself, becoming a pioneer and the first African American to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Motion Picture Makeup and Hairstylists Guild. Starting with Car Wash in 1976, Robert began a formative collaboration with Richard Pryor on Greased Lightnin’, Which Way Is Up?, Blue Collar, The Toy, and Superman III. Across more than forty years and over 120 film and TV credits, from The Color Purple to Murder, She Wrote, Robert became a master of hairlace wig design and character realism, contributing to landmark titles including Harlem Nights, Coming to America, Sister Act, Waiting to Exhale, The Butler, and more. For fourteen years, Robert served as Samuel L. Jackson’s personal hairstylist for more than twenty films, including Jackie Brown, A Time to Kill, Shaft, Unbreakable, and Coach Carter, helping establish some of Jackson’s most iconic roles. Earning a Primetime Emmy for The Jesse Owens Story and nominations for The Atlanta Child Murders and The Jacksons: An American Dream, he is the sole entertainment hairstylist in The HistoryMakers national archives. Even in retirement, Robert L. Stevenson remains active as a wig designer and consultant, continuing to shape the craft he helped to define.
Zabrina Matiru’s artistry is shaped by a global eye. Raised in Kenya between Nairobi and the Highlands, she grew up inspired by bold color and contrast. Her early life moved across cultures, from England to Canada, informing how she approaches skin, identity, and realism in the characters she creates on screen today. It was in Vancouver over two decades ago where Zabrina joined the union, establishing herself as a trusted department leader. From The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz to Pathfinder and The 4400, Zabrina has guided character design spanning multiple seasons of Supernatural and Lost in Space, earning award distinction for her artistry on Surface and Goosebumps. Championing contemporary makeup, Zabrina helped develop a color theory class for darker skin tones that gained international recognition and is now recommended across IATSE Makeup departments. While collaborating on a curriculum for the Black Beauty Roster, she continued to navigate between education and production, creating looks for Watchmen, Sucker Punch, Love Guaranteed, Eternity and Swan Song. That trajectory carries into recent work on The Old Guard 2 and Tron: Ares. Her current chapter unfolds with Aaron Sorkin’s highly anticipated The Social Reckoning.
At just thirteen, Ken Diaz mixed Nestlé Quik into red syrup, creating SFX blood for a Boy Scout first-aid drill, an early experiment that hinted at the makeup mastermind he would become. Years later, he was creating creatures on the sets of The Thing and Fright Night. Since then, Ken has shaped cinema for over five decades through characters that are iconic, unsettling and otherworldly, conquering every discipline of makeup, from beauty and character to age transitions and tattoos. With work spanning generations of filmmaking, his artistry has helped to build worlds through prosthetics, paint and color precision. From early groundbreaking creations, crafting prototype Popeye arms for Robin Williams and formulating Andy Kaufman’s androids, Ken went on to define villains and gritty antiheroes across film and television. His artistry earned Academy Award nominations for his age transformations in Dad and My Family as well as Emmy-recognized work on Alien Nation, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Westworld. From Pirates of the Caribbean to Black Panther, his creations live in some of cinema’s most iconic franchises, and his mastery has made him the personal artist to Robert Duvall, Jon Voight, Mickey Rourke and John Malkovich across multiple projects. In recent years, Ken has delivered some of his most fearless work, shaping Shia LaBeouf’s dramatic turns, elevating Ben Foster’s intensity in Emancipation, and designing for the haunting world of Sinners. The founder of K.D. 151 Makeup Products, he continues to ignite the craft, inventing new tools and mentoring emerging artists.
As one of the pioneers of Lifestyle Photography, Peggy Sirota is known for her heartfelt, emotional, evocative, slice-of-life imagery, always revealing something unexpected and exceptional from her subjects, young and old. Peggy has photographed some of the most famous personalities, and her portraits have landed on the covers and pages of GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Variety, Interview, British Vogue, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, New York Magazine, ESPN, Numéro Homme, Vogue Bambini, and many more. She has directed commercials and photographed campaigns for Apple, Nike, L’Oréal, Volvo, Amazon, Netflix, Mercedes, Disney, Sony, Levi’s, NBCUniversal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CoverGirl, Verizon, Warner Bros., Discovery, Olay, The Coca-Cola Company, MLB, Anthem Blue Cross, GAP, Roxy, T-Mobile, Neiman Marcus, Motorola, Dove, Virgin, Glossier, NFL, Barney’s, Patek Philippe, Zegna, and Toyota, amongst many others, including the widely celebrated Banana Republic and Clinique Happy spots. Sirota’s photo series GUESS WHO? is an interactive book of celebrity-in-disguise portraits, published in Germany by Steidl. Peggy challenges the reader to decipher the identity of her subjects, with all profits going to AIDS Project LA… #2 is in the works.
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