Shayna Markowitz

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Shayna Markowitz
NationalityAmerican
OccupationCasting director
Agent Shauna Perlman
Known forInaugural recipient of BAFTA Award for Best Casting
Notable workJoker
AwardsBAFTA Award for Best Casting (2019)

Shayna Markowitz is an American casting director, who is the recipient of the inaugural BAFTA Award for Best Casting in 2020 in recognition of her work on the film Joker . She works across film and television, and casting director credits also include Dash & Lily (2020), The Best of Enemies (2019) and Ocean's 8 (2018), amongst others.

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Markowitz is an American casting director, [1] whose first role in casting was as an assistant to casting director Debra Zane. Her first credit in the profession followed in 2008 for her work as casting assistant on Guillermo Arriaga’s The Burning Plain . [2] She is the recipient of the inaugural BAFTA Award for Best Casting in 2020. [3] [4] [5] The award was made in recognition of her work on the film Joker , which starred Joaquin Phoenix. Markowitz is credited in particular with attaching Sharon Washington and Leigh Gill as cast members of the film. [2] It was accepted on Markowitz's behalf by Zazie Beetz. [6] In 2020 she was nominated for an Artios Award for Joker, but lost to casting director Victoria Thomas for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. [7] She has also worked on Ocean's 8 and The Hunger Games franchise. [8] She has spoken out on how she tries through her work to cast against type. [2] She is a member of the Casting Society of America. [9] As of 2022 Markowitz was working on the casting for the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro. [10]

Casting director filmography

Awards

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  2. 1 2 3 Gant2020-01-30T16:07:00+00:00, Charles. "The long campaign for casting to be recognised at the Bafta Film Awards". Screen. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  3. ↑ "2020 Film Casting | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  4. ↑ Ritman, Alex (2020-02-02). "After BAFTA Adds Award for Casting Directors, Will the Oscars Follow?". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  5. ↑ "Bafta Film Awards 2020: The winners in full". BBC News. 2020-01-07. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  6. ↑ Networks, Casting (2020-02-05). "Shayna Markowitz Wins First-Ever BAFTA for Casting". Casting Networks. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  7. ↑ Hill, Libby (2020-01-31). "'Knives Out,' 'Marriage Story,' and 'Russian Doll' Casting Honored at Artios Awards". IndieWire. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  8. ↑ "Bruess Reenvisions MSA". St. Norbert Times. 91 (9). 2020-03-11.
  9. ↑ "The Casting Society of America". www.castingsociety.com. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  10. ↑ Steves, Ashley (23 June 2022). "Netflix's 'Maestro,' Starring and Directed by Bradley Cooper, Is Filming in New York City".
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