Casting Society honored excellence in casting across feature films, television and theater tonight at the 37th Annual Artios Awards at its worldwide virtual ceremony which also was a celebration of the organization’s 40th anniversary. Actress and creator Danielle Pinnock (CBS’ Ghosts) hosted the star-studded award ceremony, which included a congratulatory message from Steven Spielberg to his Casting Director for “West Side Story.”
A red carpet experience pre-show, hosted by former ET Correspondent Natasha Garguilo and “The Working Actor” host Rodrigo Recio, kicked off the festivities live via YouTube. The award show began with a 40th anniversary video consisting of interviews with past, present and future members talking about what the anniversary means to them and a celebration of the magic of theater. Pinnock welcomed the virtual audience with her signature brand of humor and Ariana DeBose began the presentations. Highlights of the ceremony included the Associate Spotlight Award to casting associates Kimberly Ehrlich and Xavier Rubiano, and the Zeitgeist Award to “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” given to a popular film. The Virtual Theater Award replaced the theater categories for this year only and will return in 2023.
The star-studded list of presenters and special appearances tonight from award-winning series and films included Steven Spielberg, Director, (“West Side Story”), Brian Cox (Succession), Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”), Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso), Troy Kotsur (“CODA”), Ally Sheedy (Single Drunk Female), Chris Sullivan (This Is Us), Aristotle Athari (Saturday Night Live), Sofia Black-D’Elia (Single Drunk Female), Eugene Cordero (Loki),), Lee Daniels, Director, (The United States vs. Billie Holliday), Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holliday), Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus), Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit), Rob Morgan (“Don’t Look Up”), Temuera Morrison (The Book of Boba Fett), Lou Diamond Phillips (“Easter Sunday”), D.J. “Shangela” Pierce (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Saniyya Sidney (“King Richard”), Adam Rodriguez (“Magic Mike/Magic Mike XXL”), among others.
“We are so excited to honor these immensely talented, creative and hard working casting directors tonight,” said Casting Society President Kim Williams. “What a wonderful way to begin Casting Society’s 40th year by celebrating these extraordinary casting directors’ invaluable contributions to the entertainment world.”
Host Danielle Pinnock said in a statement: “It was a tremendous honor to be asked to host this year’s Artios Awards. I’m still pinching myself! To be able to celebrate these industry titans is a gift I won’t soon forget. I have always been so inspired by the endless creativity and passion that casting directors exhibit: in giving actors a platform to share their gifts; and in helping creators achieve their vision by bringing together a perfect ensemble of performers. I want to thank the Casting Society for this incredible opportunity, and congratulate all the winners and nominees, past, present and future!”
See below for a full list of winners:
Film Categories
Animation
ENCANTO – Jamie Sparer Roberts, Grace C. Kim (Associate)
Big Budget – Comedy
DON’T LOOK UP – Francine Maisler, Kathy Driscoll-Mohler (Additional Casting), Carolyn Pickman (Location Casting), Matt Bouldry (Location Casting), Kyle Crand (Location Casting), Molly Rose (Associate)
Big Budget – Drama
WEST SIDE STORY – Cindy Tolan, Nicholas Petrovich (Associate)
Studio Or Independent – Comedy – TIE
THE TENDER BAR – Rachel Tenner, Bess Fifer (Location Casting), Carolyn Pickman (Location Casting), Rick Messina (Associate)
ZOLA – Kim Taylor-Coleman
Studio Or Independent – Drama
CODA – Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood, Lisa Zagoria, Angela Peri (Location Casting), Lisa Lobel (Location Casting), Melissa Morris (Associate)
Low Budget – Comedy Or Drama
THE HUMANS – Ellen Chenoweth, Susanne Scheel (Associate)
Micro Budget – Comedy Or Drama
SHIVA BABY – Kate Geller
Short Film
GROWING FANGS – Jessica Munks, Michael Morlani
The Zeitgeist Award
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME – Sarah Halley Finn, Chase Paris (Location Casting), Tara Feldstein Bennett (Location Casting), Molly Doyle (Associate)
Television / Theater Categories
Television Pilot and First Season – Comedy
TED LASSO – Theo Park, Olissa Rogers (Associate)
Television Pilot and First Season – Drama
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY – Kim Taylor-Coleman, Meagan Lewis (Location Casting), Mickie Paskal (Location Casting), Jennifer Rudnicke (Location Casting) Rebecca Carfagna (Associate), AJ Links (Associate)
Television Series – Comedy
CALL MY AGENT – Constance Demontoy
Television Series – Drama
POSE – Alexa L. Fogel, Elizabeth Berra (Associate)
Limited Series
THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT – Ellen Lewis, Kate Sprance, Olivia Scott-Webb, Tina Gerussi (Location Casting)
Film, Non-Theatrical Release
THE UNITED STATES VS BILLIE HOLIDAY – Leah Daniels-Butler, Billy Hopkins, Ashley Ingram, Kevin Scott, Andrea Kenyon (Location Casting), Randi Wells (Location Casting)
Children’s Pilot and Series (Live Action)
ALL THAT – Nickole Doro, Shayna Sherwood, Devon Brady (Associate)
Animated Series
BIG MOUTH – Julie Ashton
Reality Series
QUEER EYE – Danielle Gervais, Pamela Vallarelli, Ally Capriotti Grant
Short Form Series
MAPLEWORTH MURDERS – Jill Anthony Thomas, Anthony J. Kraus (Associate)
Virtual Theater (new category exclusive for 2022 due to Covid19 shuttering Broadway)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA – Stephanie Klapper
The 37th Artios Awards’ presenting sponsor was Casting Workbooks, which also produced the live red carpet.
First held in 1985, the Artios Awards honors Casting Directors in more than 20 different categories encompassing film, television and theatre. In addition, special honorees are selected for their contributions to the craft. Nominees and winners are voted on by members of the Casting Society.
ABOUT CASTING SOCIETY
Casting Society was founded in February of 1982 with the intention of establishing a recognized standard of professionalism in the casting field and providing its members with a support organization to further their goals and protect their common interests. Casting Society currently boasts close to 1,200 members. Casting Society casting directors and associate casting directors work around the world, with members based in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa. Casting Society is a global resource for producers, directors and creative teams seeking casting professionals while promoting the image of casting directors and associate casting directors worldwide, engaging in a number of charitable activities and supporting its members by sharing important and helpful professional information. For more information on Casting Society, please visit CastingSociety.com.
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Yes CODA! <3 <3
Regrettable because Dune should’ve had this won. That wasn’t just great casting; it was a superteam of talent from 6 different movie franchises and every one of them looked like they were born to play the roles they did.
WSS won on the power of Mike Faist!
And Rachel Zegler and David Alvarez. Wish they were all Oscar nominees, too!
Mike Faist. It’s an inside joke cause his stans were so crazy and flopping so much with predictions that it became a running gag.
Faist got a BAFTA nomination and some critics groups nominated him, too!
Poor Rachel can’t even get into the Dolby Theater!
Heh heh heh… 😀
Congrats to ”West Side Story” (Cindy Tolan, Nicholas Petrovich) won the Artios Award for Best Casting of a Big Budget Drama! It beat out ”House of Gucci,” ”King Richard,” ”The Power of the Dog” and ”tick … tick … BOOM.” (”West Side Story” also had won the BAFTA for Casting.)
Weak category
A win is still a win. ”West Side Story” had the estimable challenge of finding a terrific ensemble of triple threats that could sing, act and dance. And it did, magnificently. ”West Side Story” also won the BAFTA for Casting, beating out ”Boiling Point,” ”Dune,” ”The Hand of God” and ”King Richard.”
I know, but Ansel Elgort was not good. And it’s telling that the film got only one Oscar nomination for its cast. A weird year all around.
Ansel Elgort was a terrific Tony. He was more grounded and brought more grit to the role than Richard Beymer did in the 1961 movie. Also, Elgort did his own singing, unlike Beymer, who was dubbed. … But Elgort didn’t get the credit he deserved ‘cuz some already saw him in a negative light; they judged him thru the prism of sex-assault allegations, which he’s denied.
He was more grounded and brought more grit to the role than Richard Beymer did in the 1961 movie.
That doesn’t say much. I didn’t hear about Elgort’s woes when I saw the movie and I thought he was the weakest link in the cast and almost brought the movie down with him. It’s really troublesome that the material then and now still couldn’t solve the Tony (character) problem.
Back then, Tony was more of a cipher. And since Kushner wasn’t successful with fleshing out this character, I kinda think it works better if he remained a cipher.
His singing and his emoting were subpar IMO
Oh look, another INDUSTRY award for CODA and another INDUSTRY loss for Power of the Dog. Don’t worry Dogpound, I heard the critics love your movie. Maybe on Sunday you can watch a replay of the Gold Derby Film Awards instead of the Oscars. Woof, woof!
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POTD lost to West Side Story. CODA beat Belfast, The Lost Daughter. Should the Oscar Awards have a casting category?
Casting and Stunt Coordination.
This! Stunts are such a huge part of movie success they should have their own category and I guarantee you it would be a popular one. Cause guess what? Only popular movies would be nominated!
Yes!
Probably not. They’d just put it as a crawl at the bottom of the screen. They do, however, need to give out a stunt award.
Marlee Matlin deserves a lot of credit for the casting of CODA.
And sticking to her guns!
If CODA was a Netflix movie and POTD was an Apple movie would CODA still win BP?
CODA would win even if it was on the Playboy Channel.
Were you disappointed when Nomadland beat Trial Of The Chicago 7 last year?
No, I was disappointed when Nomadland beat The Vast Of Night, the year’s best film by a country mile.
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But Vast of Night was not nominated for any Oscars. It only got a First Screenplay nomination at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Minor fact
Brava to Matlin, who pushed for the other two deaf characters in ”CODA” to be played by non-hearing actors. When the film’s financers balked, she threatened to quit. She said: ”This is not right. It’s not authentic and it’s not going to work. If you go down that route, I’m out, because I don’t want to be part of that effort of faking Deaf. I’m glad they listened.”
I dunno, Riz Ahmed was tremendous faking deaf last year but I see her point. If you can cast real than do. Obviously, they hit the paydirt with Korsur.
Ahmed played a hearing character who went deaf. That’s different.
Casting directors make up one of the 17 branches of the Academy, but they’re among the only ones not represented by an Oscar. They’ve been advocating for recognition because good casting is so paramount to any great film. As it is, there are those who are loath to add any more categories that would lengthen the Oscar telecast. But Steven Spielberg, who attended last night’s Artios, swears by his casting directors. Another Oscar winner, Martin Scorsese, says: ”Casting is 85 to 90% of the picture for me.” Meantime, other awards, like the BAFTAs. the AACTAs and the Emmys, have prizes for casting, and the Independent Spirit’s Robert Altman Award recognizes a film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.
I don’t know why anyone wants to act like this (like a total douchebag) to anyone who is a film lover. Why do you have to be so horrible?
I am baffled “Squid Game” didn’t win in television drama… it was perfectly cast.
So, CODA, wins another guild – this one was pretty obvious, anyways, though. Happy for WSS so at least, it has won one Guild! Also the Zeitgeist Award for Spiderman: No Way Home, looks a bit weird… as most actors are returning to their roles!!!