"But among those better-known powerbrokers is another vital cog in the Hollywood machine: the people with the ability to make and grow stars. This year, for the first time, casting directors will be honoured by the Academy, and one of the frontrunners is Nina Gold the woman who put together Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in the critics' favourite, Hamnet."
"I just really felt like it had to be Jessie Buckley from the very moment I started thinking about the character seriously, Gold said. She has this quality of connectedness to the physical world that Agnes has, and she's devoid of bullshit in the same way Agnes is. Mescal, she said, was celebrated and fancy but modest enough to do a chemistry read. He wasn't egotistical, she said. He came to see if it was right and it really was."
"Gold, meanwhile, has been shortlisted in the inaugural best casting category for Hamnet at the Academy Awards, alongside other films including Sinners, Frankenstein, Marty Supreme and One Battle After Another. The category has been included after decades of lobbying for casting directors to be formally recognised. I'm really thrilled, and slightly terrified, Gold said. It's wonderful that casting directors are finally being recognised on the same playing field as our other creative colleagues in film-making."
Casting directors will be recognized by the Academy for the first time with a new casting category. Nina Gold has been shortlisted for her casting of Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in Hamnet. Gold identified Buckley's grounded, no-nonsense quality as an essential match for the character Agnes and praised Mescal's modesty and willingness to do a chemistry read. Hamnet won the Golden Globe for best motion picture drama and Buckley won best female actor in a drama film, positioning both as Oscar contenders. The category follows decades of lobbying for formal recognition of casting directors.
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