The Casting Society’s nominations are an interesting batch just because it speaks to the power of casts and their casting directors. Casting is a category recognized at BAFTA but not the Oscars, which is surprising. It seems like a natural fit for the Academy.

The Nominations

Best Feature Big Budget Drama Casting

The Color Purple
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Saltburn

Best Studio or Independent Drama Casting

The Iron Claw
May December
Past Lives
Priscilla
Rustin

Best Feature Big Budget Comedy Casting

Air
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
Cocaine Bear
Wonka

Best Studio or Independent Comedy Casting

American Fiction
Bottoms
The Holdovers
Joy Ride
Theater Camp

Best Low Budget Comedy or Drama Casting

Birth/Rebirth
Emily
Jules
Memory
Monica

Best Micro Budget Comedy or Drama Casting

The Donor Party
How I Learned to Fly
Summoning Sylvia
What Comes Around
Your Lucky Day

Best Feature Animation Casting

Elemental
Leo
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wish

Best Short Film Casting

Motherland
Newbie
S.P.I.C.
Us
We Were Meant To

Zeitgeist Award

Barbie
The Flash
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Casting Society of America Data

Year Founded: 1982
First Awards: 1984 (40)