'Emilia Perez' also won the award in the new international feature category. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor The Casting Society (CSA), which “honors excellence in casting across feature film, ...

I tried out Matter Casting on a Fire TV and was impressed. But the platform-agnostic standard has a mountain to climb if it’s going to take off in an AirPlay and Chromecast world. I tried out Matter ...

Casting director Sarah Finn has been Marvel’s longtime secret weapon: She’s the one fielding thousands and thousands of auditions to populate Hollywood’s biggest film franchise. Over the years, she’s ...

Ask a casting director about their job — usually her job — and you will hear words like intuition and alchemy. Ideally, they work closely with their director to create the human canvas of a project.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is adding a new Oscar category for casting directors, starting in 2026. The Oscars are a pinnacle of achievement for actors. But casting those actors is ...

A year-by-year "what if," guided by math, to make educated guesses filling in a nearly century-long gap of recognition for casting directors. By Ben Zauzmer Ben Zauzmer is a contributing writer for ...

Casting scams are an unfortunate, but very real, aspect of the online casting process. Backstage has a team of editors committed to weeding out any potential acting or modeling scams to ensure the ...

On a recent filmed installment of the Act Up podcast that was shared on Instagram, Rhavynn Drummer — who touts on her website that she has cast “fifteen television series, eighteen feature films, and ...