US EditionCasting Directors Finally Get Their Due at Oscars
The new Best Casting category, with four of five nominees women, aims to improve gender representation and honor casting directors’ unique skills at the Oscars.
- Presenting its first casting trophy, the Oscars are set to award the first Best Casting Oscar on Sunday, the first new category in 24 years.
- Since 1982, the CSA has worked to secure a casting Oscar, but the Academy rejected a motion to create a casting branch in 1996 until it was established in 2013.
- Nominees illustrate the craft by recruiting unknown actors and immigrant background casts, with Gabriel Domingues and Cassandra Kulukundis showing this year how casting directors read scripts, align with visions, and hold auditions in person and by video.
- Industry figures say the new award will spotlight casting directors’ skillsets, and adding casting almost certainly increases female nominees, with four of five nominees this year being women.
- Since 1929, the Academy Awards show 82.2 percent of winners have been men, and casting directors now use the internet and worldwide searches to expand talent pools.
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When a film catches you, it's often about chemistry among the actors. And this is thanks to cast directors, who will now be recognized by the Academy with their own statuette. After almost a century of history, the Oscars will award for the first time on Sunday these professionals, usually women, who are largely responsible for the alchemy that occurs on the set. "I'm really very happy for all of us," Nina Gold, nominated for her work for "Hamne…
The 50-year struggle to get Best Casting into the Oscars
The Academy Award for Best Casting is the first new category to be added the Oscars in more than two decades. | Emma McIntyre/WireImage On Sunday night, the Academy Awards will confer their first trophy to a casting director. The award for Best Casting is the first new category to be added to the Oscars in 24 years — and it’s doing its part to remedy the Oscars’s abysmal record on gender. Since the Academy Awards began in 1929, 82.2 percent of …
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