Getting that Fox look though wasn’t easy. Baker and Kazu Hiro, who created the prosthetics for the film, and the team went through troves of images, documentaries and spent months watching clips of Fox, to study the women’s faces and on-air uniforms.

“The look,” Baker said, “fits within that whole concept of women as Barbie dolls.”

Kazu Hiro, who is known for his work on “Planet of the Apes” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” and who won an Oscar for makeup for “The Darkest Hour,” said “Bombshell” was the hardest film he’s done to date.

In addition to the prosthetics came piles of base powder, eyeliner, eye lashes, eye shadow, heaps of lip gloss and wigs.

So far their work has earned a 2020 Critics Choice nomination and put the film on the Oscar shortlist for makeup and hairstyling. The Times talked to Kazu Hiro and Baker about the makeup in the film and what that look meant to the women who wore it.

The Fox Look

Baker and her team watched hours of Fox to get to know the individual anchors’ styles. She noted that there’s a forced element to all of it. “It has to fit a predetermined idea of what men think is pretty, more specifically what Roger Ailes thinks is pretty,” she said. At Fox, that meant sexy, revealing clothes “without being too slutty,” big hair and a full face of makeup.