Winning the first Best Casting Oscar, Casting director Cassandra Kulukundis is the latest person to win an Oscar before Paul Thomas Anderson
Cassandra Kulukundis, who gets credit for discovering Chase Infiniti, bringing in Jim Downey, and having the genius idea to hire Leonardo DiCaprio, won the first-ever Oscar for casting tonight. Kulukundis has been casting Paul Thomas Anderson movies since the ’90s, so that gives her the right to gloat that she got an Oscar before he did.
. In her acceptance speech, she pointed out how integral her work is toward annoying the whole production. From locations to stunts to editing , everyone can blame her when things go wrong and ignore her when things go right. Well, until this evening, when the Oscars committed to highlighting their efforts. A great cast is always worth repeating, so it’s nice to see the people who put those casts together receive a little recognition. Best Casting is one of several new categories coming to the Academy Awards. It’s also the first new category since 2001, when the Academy added Best Animated Film, so they could get ahead of things and giveKeep scrolling for more great stories.
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