About this episode
The episode discusses the new Best Casting category at the Academy Awards and explores potential nominees and historical films deserving of a Casting Oscar.
It’s May Miniseries time!! Presenting CATEGORY IS…! We’re in a moment of the Academy Awards introducing new categories for the first time in many years, and we’ll be spending the whole month discussing the categories already announced and a few we think should be! First up: Best Casting! This episode, we discuss the Oscar’s newest category and how we felt about the nominees for 2025, how we would like to see the category evolve in the years to come, what shortlisted films we think might have deserved the nomination, and we close the episode with the most important part: we name 10 films in movie history that we would retroactively award with a Casting Oscar.
People in this episode
Hosts: Joe, Chris
Topics covered
- Academy Awards
- casting
- film nominations
- Oscar categories
- movie history
Keywords
- Academy Awards
- Best Casting
- film nominations
- Casting Oscar
- movie history
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Academy Awards
Books & works: Best Casting, Casting Oscar
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