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.

Casting Society has revealed the film nominees for its 2026 Artios Awards in eight categories spanning comedy, drama, ...

Casting Society nominations for Artios Awards include casting directors from "Jay Kelly," "Hamnet" and "Wicked: For Good." ...

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 ...

Six top casting directors open up about diversity and weigh in on whether they deserve an Oscar category ("Hell yes"). By Rebecca Ford Senior Awards Editor Between them, they’ve worked on hundreds of ...

Kim Williams’ nephews, who are in college, recently started watching the ’90s sitcom “Martin” and raved about it to their father — how funny it was, how great the characters were and how great the ...

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 ...

Emmy-nominated casting directors from "The Amazing Race," "The Golden Bachelor," "Love on the Spectrum," "RuPaul's Drag Race," and "Squid Game: The Challenge" share what they look for. How are you ...

While the usual festivities and celebration surrounding the annual Academy Awards, otherwise known as the Oscars, commenced on the silver screen, perhaps what has emerged to be an awakening for ...