After two Academy Award nominations for his work doing makeup and hairstyling on the films "Click" (2006) and "Norbit" (2007), Kazuhiro Tsuji finally got his hands on an Oscar to call his own at last month's ceremony.
The 48-year-old Kyoto native was recognized for the dazzling feat of turning Gary Oldman into British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for Joe Wright's pulsating blockbuster "Darkest Hour."
"I'd heard we'd probably win, so I wasn't surprised by the announcement," Tsuji tells The Japan Times, though he admits he still "spent the night worrying about (his) speech."