{"id":68967,"date":"2013-02-08T06:21:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=68967"},"modified":"2013-02-08T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:21:11","slug":"unexpected-nomination-puts-make-up-artist-in-oscars-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/02\/08\/68967-unexpected-nomination-puts-make-up-artist-in-oscars-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected nomination puts make-up artist in Oscar&#8217;s sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.smh.com.au\/2013\/01\/18\/3964178\/art-353-MakeUpLN-300x0.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\">When it comes to award ceremonies, Rick Findlater is usually back at a hotel making stars look their best.<br \/>\nBut the Australian hair and make-up artist will now be at the centre of the action after being nominated for both British and American academy awards for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just going to suck it up and enjoy the whole thing,&#8221; Findlater says from the home he is renovating on four hectares at Georgica, near Lismore in northern NSW.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Compared with Hugh Jackman for Les Miserables, Naomi Watts for The Impossible and Jacki Weaver for Silver Linings Playbook, Findlater is [Australia&#8217;s] unknown Oscar nominee this year.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than sharing the honour with publicists and managers, he was alone at home with his black labrador Diesel when he discovered his nomination on the Oscars website &#8211; then calmly went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;d crack many bottles of champagne if I was ever lucky enough to win, along with my colleagues,&#8221; he says just as calmly. &#8220;But, for now, I&#8217;m just enjoying the fact that I&#8217;m even nominated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/an-unexpected-nomination-puts-makeup-artist-in-oscars-sights-20130118-2cyks.html#ixzz2KIypB7kM\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to award ceremonies, Rick Findlater is usually back at a hotel making stars look their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,14,4,71,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-crew-news","category-events","category-hobbit-movie","category-events-oscar-parties","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hWn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68970,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68967\/revisions\/68970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}