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Mia Neal

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Hair Designer

Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics Choice, Drama Desk, and Emmy Winning Hairstylist

Oscar Winning Hair Designer Mia Neal On The Smashing Machine
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Nov. 11, 2025

Oscar Winning Hair Designer Mia Neal On The Smashing Machine

#MiaNeal #TheSmashingMachine #BehindTheScenes Get ready for one of my most favorite episodes ever. Firstly, WHY HAVEN’T YOU SEEN THE SMASHING MACHINE? I saw this film on opening weekend as a #BennySafdi die hard, and was lucky enough to get to pick Oscar Winner, Mia Neal’s beautiful brain about the work she did in the Hair Department for it right after. Let me just tell you, I had NO IDEA what she was about to tell me. Holy Smokes, did Ms. Neal conquer some challenges- in fact, I believe the quo...
Guest: Mia Neal
Episode 22: OSCARS Special | Mia Neal Talks Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
April 22, 2021

Episode 22: OSCARS Special | Mia Neal Talks Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

It's Episode 22 and recent BAFTA WINNER (!) Mia Neal talks about her incredible career and her Oscar nomination. Mia joins me to talk about work/life balance (and laugh), her historic Oscar Nomination this year which she shares with Jamika Wilson as the first Black women to be nominated for makeup and hairstyling since the categories inclusion in 1981, her admiration for the Safdi Brothers' and her wild times working on Uncut Gems, and ... as always... so. much. more. Enjoy! And don't for...
Guest: Mia Neal