Have a Seat, The Casting Director Will See You Shortly – The Legends of Juliet Taylor & Ellen Lewis

About this episode

The episode explores the contributions of legendary casting directors Juliet Taylor and Ellen Lewis in the context of the first Academy Award for Achievement in Casting.

On Sunday the first Oscar for Achievement in Casting will be given in the 98-year history of the Academy Awards. Today, The Kitchen Sisters and host Frances McDormand bring you the story of two legendary casting directors: Juliet Taylor and Ellen Lewis. Listen to Part 1 of this saga: Everyone’s a Casting Director: The First-Ever Academy Award for Casting in the 98-Year History of the Academy Awards “Casting is the first thing that is done on a movie. Everybody's sort of in a great mood, nothing's gone wrong yet, and everybody's feeling very positive. And it's the first time the director's heard the words read and it can really influence the way the movie goes.” — Juliet Taylor During her career, Juliet cast 103 films including Annie Hall, Taxi Driver, Manhattan, Terms of Endearment, Big, Schindler's List, Midnight Cowboy, Network and so many more. “It's an old-fashioned trade. You are learning from the person that you are working for. That's like your graduate school.” — Ellen Lewis Ellen has cast some dozen films for Martin Scorsese including Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence, Cape Fear, Kundun, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman, The Departed…

People in this episode

Host: Frances McDormand

Topics covered

• casting directors
• Academy Awards
• film history
• Juliet Taylor
• Ellen Lewis
• cinema
• film production

Keywords

• casting
• Academy Awards
• Juliet Taylor
• Ellen Lewis
• film casting
• cinema history
• Frances McDormand

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Academy Awards

Books & works: Annie Hall, Taxi Driver, Manhattan, Terms of Endearment, Big, Schindler's List, Midnight Cowboy, Network, Goodfellas, Casino

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