BAFTA Award for Best Casting

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BAFTA Award for Best Casting
Awarded forBest Casting
Country United Kingdom
Presented by British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held bySusan Shopmaker for The Holdovers (2023)
Website https://www.bafta.org/

The BAFTA Award for Best Casting is one of the annual film awards given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 2020.

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In August 2019, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the introduction of the category. BAFTA chair Pippa Harris said in a statement: "We are delighted this year to be including the highly skilled work of casting directors for the first time. Casting is essential to the screen industries, and vital in terms of promoting diversity and inclusion on screen. We hope this Award will also help to promote an understanding of casting". [1] [2] [3]

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

2010s

YearFilmRecipient(s)
2019
(73rd)
[4]
Joker Shayna Markowitz
Marriage Story Douglas Aibel and Francine Maisler
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Victoria Thomas
The Personal History of David Copperfield Sarah Crowe
The Two Popes Javier Braier, Barbara Giordani, Nina Gold, Francesco Vedovati and Gabriel Villegas

2020s

YearFilmRecipient(s)
2020
(74th)
[5]
Rocks Lucy Pardee
Calm with Horses Shaheen Baig
Judas and the Black Messiah Alexa L. Fogel
Minari Julia Kim
Promising Young Woman Lindsay Graham Ahanonu and Mary Vernieu
2021
(75th)
[6]
West Side Story Cindy Tolan
Boiling Point Carolyn McLeod
Dune Francine Maisler
The Hand of God Massimo Appolloni and Annamaria Sambucco
King Richard Rich Delia and Avy Kaufman
2022
(76th)
[7]
Elvis Nikki Barrett and Denise Chamian
Aftersun Lucy Pardee
All Quiet on the Western Front Simone Bär
Everything Everywhere All at Once Sarah Halley Finn
Triangle of Sadness Pauline Hansson  [ ca ]
2023
(77th)
[8]
The Holdovers Susan Shopmaker
All of Us Strangers Kahleen Crawford
Anatomy of a Fall Cynthia Arra
How to Have Sex Isabella Odoffin
Killers of the Flower Moon Ellen Lewis and Rene Haynes

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

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References

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