The Casting Society of America (CSA) is has announced its nominations for 32nd Annual Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting in Feature Film Categories. Nominations for Television, Theatre, Short Films and Short Form/Web Series were announced in September 2016. CSA members have received final film ballots and voting will close on Sunday, January 8, 2017. Winners of all categories will be unveiled in dual ceremonies taking place in Los Angeles and New York on Thursday, January 19, 2017.
The full list of feature film nominees are:
Big Budget Comedy:
Deadpool – Ronna Kress, Jennifer Page (Location Casting), Corinne Clark (Location Casting)
Hail, Caesar! – Ellen Chenoweth, Susanne Scheel (Associate)
La La Land – Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood
Rules Don’t Apply – David Rubin, Melissa Pryor (Associate)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Jo Edna Boldin (Location Casting), Conrad Woolfe (Associate), Marie A.K. McMaster (Associate)
Big Budget – Drama
Arrival – Francine Maisler, Lucie Robitaille (Location Casting)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Fiona Weir, Jim Carnahan (Location Casting)
Hidden Figures – Victoria Thomas, Jackie Burch (Location Casting), Bonnie Grisan (Associate)
Nocturnal Animals – Francine Maisler
The Girl on the Train – Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Joey Montenarello (Associate), Adam Richards (Associate)
Studio or Independent – Comedy
20th Century Women – Laura Rosenthal, Mark Bennett
Bad Moms – Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Meagan Lewis (Location Casting)
Café Society – Juliet Taylor, Patricia DiCerto, Meghan Rafferty (Associate)
Hell or High Water – Richard Hicks, Jo Edna Boldin, Chris Redondo (Associate), Marie A.K. McMaster (Associate)
The Edge of Seventeen – Melissa Kostenbauder, Coreen Mayrs (Location Casting), Heike Brandstatter (Location Casting)
Studio or Independent – Drama
Captain Fantastic – Jeanne McCarthy, Angelique Midthunder (Location Casting), Amey Rene (Location Casting)
Jackie – Mary Vernieu, Lindsay Graham, Jessica Kelly (Location Casting)
Lion – Kirsty McGregor
Loving – Francine Maisler, Erica Arvold (Location Casting), Anne N. Chapman (Location Casting), Michelle Kelly (Associate)
Manchester By the Sea – Douglas Aibel, Carolyn Pickman (Location Casting), Henry Russell Bergstein (Associate)
Low budget – Comedy or Drama
Christine – Douglas Aibel, Stephanie Holbrook, Tracy Kilpatrick (Location Casting), Blair Foster (Associate)
Goat – Susan Shopmaker, D. Lynn Meyers (Location Casting)
Hello, My Name is Doris – Sunday Boling, Meg Morman
Moonlight – Yesi Ramirez
White Girl – Jessica Daniels
Animation
Finding Dory – Kevin Reher, Natalie Lyon
Moana – Jamie Sparer Roberts, Rachel Sutton (Location Casting)
The Jungle Book – Sarah Halley Finn, Tamara Hunter (Associate)
The Little Prince – Sarah Halley Finn, Tamara Hunter (Associate)
Zootopia – Jamie Sparer Roberts
Actor and Comedian Joel McHale is set to emcee the Los Angeles ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and Michael Urie will host the New York ceremony at Stage 48 in Hell’s Kitchen. Annette Bening will be honored with the Lynn Stalmaster Award for Career Achievement, and casting director Nina Gold will receive the Hoyt Bowers Award, presented by J.J. Abrams, at the LA ceremony. The Public Theater will take home the newly named Marion Dougherty New York Apple Award at the NY ceremony.
All nominees were submitted by CSA members and met eligibility requirements for projects that were released from June 1, 2015 – May 31, 2016. The CSA has added the foreign language film category to this year’s honors.
