The frontrunner for the first-ever casting Oscar has worked with more legendary filmmakers than you can count on both hands. Ask them and they'll tell you: There’s a reason why. By David Canfield ...

Keeping pace with Hollywood’s awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. It’s another craft category filled with Best Picture nominees, but each one reveals something about the Academy’s ...

Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The ...

The Casting Directors have finally got their Oscar. After a decades long effort to establish a competitive Oscar for Casting Directors, it has finally paid off with the establishment of a new Oscar ...

At long last, the Oscars are celebrating the essential work of casting directors, and with today's announcement of the nominations, the Academy has shed some light on how they'll consider the work and ...