Which Star Trek film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup in 1997?

Star Trek: First Contact was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup in 1997.

The nomination recognized the film's extensive practical work, especially the design and application of Borg makeup and prosthetics. The Academy Awards ceremony held in 1997 honored films released during 1996, the year First Contact reached cinemas.

First Contact was the only Star Trek film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Makeup. The nomination reflected the importance of practical creature and prosthetic effects in portraying the Borg, whose mechanical implants and altered bodies are central to the film's visual identity.

The award itself went to The Nutty Professor, which featured Rick Baker's makeup work. This fact is sometimes confused with Star Trek's earlier nominations for visual effects or with the franchise's Hugo Award recognition. First Contact remains the most prominent theatrical Star Trek story about the Borg and the historical first contact between humans and Vulcans.