Glenn Close, Already Thanking Her Makeup Team The Oscar attention that Glenn Close received yesterday for her passion project, "Albert Nobbs," was really a triple-fold win. Yes, she was nominated for best actress - her first recognition by the Academy in 13 years (though she's been nominated five times before, she's never won). But her co-star Janet McTeer also got the nod, as best supporting actress. They texted each other congratulations on Tuesday morning. Equally important for Ms. Close was the acknowledgment that her hair and makeup team received: Matthew W. Mungle, who created the makeup and prosthetics that turned Ms. Close into a 19th-century Irishman; Lynn Johnston, who applied it in a daily two-and-a-half-hour ritual; and Martial Corneville, the hairstylist and wigmaker, were nominated as a team for best makeup. "The three of them were integral to the characters that we were able to create," Ms. Close said. The zen experience - it was almost like a meditation every morning, as both Lynn and Martial would do their work. By the time you come out of it, it's not you anymore. She was particularly thrilled that Mr. Corneville, who has been her wigmaker for 20 years, was nominated. "He did my wig in "The House of the Spirits" and he designed and dressed all my Cruella wigs" - in "101 Dalmatians" - "which were unbelievable works of art," she said. And Albert is the absolute opposite of Cruella! You can make a beautiful wig but then to be able to dress it is everything. Martial is incredibly innovative and solves certain technical problems with applying a wig. He's a master of the hairline in the front. Ms. Close did not want Albert to have what she called "the slicked back kind of cliché look - the Julie Andrews look that was great for "Victor/Victoria."" Instead she showed Mr. Corneville an old photo of an aristocrat she'd found. "He had the hair that couldn't be totally tamed by pomade, and I thought that was really important for Albert," she said. To have Mr. Corneville nominated for an Oscar alongside her - his first nomination - "it's been my dream, really has been my dream," Ms. Close said, "because he has been one of my intimate collaborators." "Martial," she added, "mixes hair color the way an artist mixes paint."