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Debbie McWilliams served as casting director on “The Living Daylights,” “Goldeneye” and “Casino Royale,” helping to find Craig, Pierce Brosnan and Timothy Dalton. Sean Connery, Roger Moore and George ...

The search for who will play James Bond has taken an important step as sources have confirmed to Deadline that Nina Gold has closed a deal to become the casting director for the next 007 film. Gold ...

Yellowstone returns for the second half of its fifth, and possibly final, season on the Paramount Network in November. It’s been a while since the first half of the latest installment arrived, so ...

The veteran casting director heard her name called for a collaboration with her regular auteur boss Paul Thomas Anderson on his ‘One Battle After Another.’ By Chris Gardner Cassandra Kulukundis made ...

The first award for Best Casting comes amid the Academy's initiatives to diversify its voting ranks and competitive brackets. Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. Since 2016, his ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s go-to casting director Kulukindis admitted, “The truth is, no one knows what we do. They don’t understand it.” She went on to say, “We’re in this weird dungeon all by ourselves.

As the buzz around this year’s Best Picture and Best Actor races reaches deafening levels, there’s another narrative going into the 98th Academy Awards that’s a little more inside baseball but no less ...

When Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning, there was a newcomer on the list of familiar categories: achievement in casting. The nominees — Nina Gold for “Hamnet,” Jennifer Venditti for ...

You know the old saying about how you wait ages for a bus and then two come along at the exact same time? New Oscars categories are like that too. In the 77 years since 1949, the Academy Awards have ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Why on earth it took until now is a long story. The important thing is that, in 2026, the Academy of Motion ...