Most Oscar® nominations - Makeup

The most Oscar nominations for the Best Makeup category of the Academy Awards® is 11, and was achieved by Rick Baker (USA, b. 8 December 1950) between 1981 and 2011.

Rick Baker has been nominated 11 times since the category was first established at the 54th Academy Awards®, when Baker actually won the award for his work on An American Werewolf in London (1981) on 29 March 1982. Rick Baker went on to win the award six more times, including from his most recent nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards® for The Wolfman(2010) on 27 February 2011.

Academy Awards® Makeup nominations by Rick Baker, updated through the 2011 (84th) Awards, presented on 26 February 2012:

(54th) An American Werewolf in London (1981)
(57th) Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Rick Baker, Paul Engelen) (1984)
(60th) Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
(61st) Coming to America (1988)
(67th) Ed Wood (Rick Baker, Ve Neill, Yolanda Toussieng) (1994)
(69th) The Nutty Professor (Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson) (1996)
(70th) Men in Black (Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson) (1997)
(72nd) Life (1999)
(73rd) Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Rick Baker, Gail Ryan) (2000)
(80th) Norbit (Rick Baker, Kazuhiro Tsuji) (2007)
(83rd) The Wolfman (Rick Baker, Dave Elsey) (2010)

Most nominations - Academy Awards® Makeup nominations through the 84th Awards, presented on February 26, 2012.
11 Rick Baker (number of wins: 7)
9 Greg Cannom (number of wins: 3)
8 Ve Neill (number of wins: 3)
6 Michèle Burke (number of wins: 2)
4 Matthew W. Mungle (number of wins: 1)
4 Yolanda Toussieng (number of wins: 2)
4 Michael Westmore (number of wins: 1)
4 Stan Winston (number of wins: 1)
3 David LeRoy Anderson (number of wins: 2)
3 Edouard Henriques (number of wins: 0)
3 Aldo Signoretti (number of wins: 0)