The stylists of made history at the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday. Makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera, hair department head Mia Neal, and Viola Davis' personal hairstylist, Jamika Wilson, took home the statue for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, with the latter pairing becoming the first-ever Black stylists to win in the category.
Neal took the lead for the acceptance speech, thanking the Academy, Netflix, Davis, and «the spirit of Ma Rainey.»«I want to thank our ancestors who put the work in and were denied, but never gave up,» Neal said, recalling the struggles of her grandfather, James Holland.
An original Tuskegee airman, he graduated from Northwestern University when they didn't allow Black students to stay on campus and struggled to.
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