NOSES IN MOVIES

Best beaks

1 MAESTRO

While Bradley Cooper didn’t strictly need a larger schnozz to play larger-than-life musical impresario Leonard Bernstein, extra conk added by nose expert and facialprosthetics master Kazu Hiro lent a more Lenny vibe. The family approved but social media didn’t.

2 THE HOURS

Nicole Kidman played acclaimed author Virginia Woolf as she struggled with depression while writing Mrs Dalloway. The transformative face augmentation contributed to an Oscar (Kidman won by a, er, nose) and even stayed put after a steaming mug of tea.

3 THE WIZARD OF OZ

Former teacher Margaret Hamilton had been told the bump on her nose would preclude her from a great movie career. Not so. Her iconic turn as the Wicked Witch of the West built on her noticeable natural nose by adding green paint and a crook. Need more scary? Add more nose.

4 FOXCATCHER

John du Pont shot an Olympian winner in his driveway – so who better to play him than funnyman Steve Carell, who went full nostril for this true-crime story? Virtually unrecognisable, the added hooter increased Carell’s menace. Too funny and familiar? Get a nose.

5 THE IRON LADY

To play Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep’s sniffer was prosthetically widened. But it seems a filmic rule that when playing a famous legislator, the nose is key: see Frank Langella and Anthony Hopkins (both as Nixon) and Helen Mirren in Golda. Politics? The beak goes on.

6 THE BOSTON STRANGLER

Tony Curtis’ career was on the slide when he set his sights on playing Albert DeSalvo, the notorious Boston Strangler, in 1968. Hiring a make-up artist to add a fake smashed nose for his audition, he got the gig. Want the role? Add more proboscis.

7 THE BATMAN

Like Danny DeVito who donned the penguin suit before him, Colin Farrell transformed into Batman’s nemesis via a whole coating of prosthetics. Oddly enough, Farrell’s conk was the least-enhanced part of his extensive facial make-up process – a nose-up for the books.

8 BOMBSHELL

To shape Charlize Theron’s finely chiselled features into that of equally chiselled newsreader Megyn Kelly for this compelling sexual-harassment exposé drama, nasal plugs widened Theron’s nostrils and upturned the tip – and yep, that’s a Hiro nose again.

9 THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Lon Chaney’s horrifying look, created by his own hand, in the silent Phantom is a skull-like disquieter. It was achieved not with comfy prosthetics but by pulling and glueing his natural nose back as far as it would go. Man of a Thousand Noses.

10 FRIDA

Everyone remembers Kahlo’s unibrow – her facial trademark. Her mate’s nose, not so much. But in Frida, a larger, more bulbous snout was about the only thing that made Alfred Molina look vaguely like her lover and fellow artist Diego Rivera. KAREN KRIZANOVICH

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