What is 'Best Casting'?

The 98th Oscars had a first already baked into it before the night even got started. This would be the year that casting ...

The first-ever best casting award went to Cassandra Kulukundis, who assembled the sprawling troupe in "One...

The first-ever best casting award went to Cassandra Kulukundis, who assembled the sprawling troupe in “One Battle After Another.” “When Paul Thomas Anderson calls you,” Kulukundis said, “you enter ...

The 50-year struggle to get Best Casting into the Oscars

It’s one of the few female-dominated niches in Hollywood. They finally made it to the Academy Awards.
Backstage

Best Casting Oscar: Everything We Know About the Academy Award’s New Category

At the 98th Academy Awards on March 15, Cassandra Kulukundis won the inaugural Achievement in Casting Oscar for her work on "One Battle After Another." In her acceptance speech, she dedicated the ...
Gold Derby

Everything you need to know about the Oscars’ new Best Casting category

How many films will be nominated? Do sequels count? Who's the favorite? We've got all the answers. There has been consolidation (Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing became Best Sound) and ...
GQ

The “Best Casting” Oscar is Brand New This Year. Here's How Casting Directors Finally Got Their Due

As the buzz around this year’s Best Picture and Best Actor races reaches deafening levels, there’s another narrative going into the 98th Academy Awards that’s a little more inside baseball but no ...

Which Films Would’ve Won the Best Casting Oscar? 90-Plus Pros Voted. The Winners Are…

A new survey of Casting Society members reveals which Academy Awards contenders prevailed over the past 15 years — if the category had existed.
Slate

It’s the Oscars’ First New Category in Decades. Few Understand What It’s Actually For.

You know the old saying about how you wait ages for a bus and then two come along at the exact same time? New Oscars categories are like that too. In the 77 years since 1949, the Academy Awards have ...