39th Annual Artios Awards Honor Casting Excellence, Capture New Oscar Category Excitement

Riding the highs of February’s historic new Oscar category announcement, top casting directors and their teams celebrated their achievements at the 39th annual Artios Awards.

The ceremony, hosted by the Casting Society (CSA) and sponsored by our sister company Spotlight, was held across multiple venues–from New York to Los Angeles to London. Niecy Nash-Betts, Alex Edelman and Samantha Morton hosted the evening’s festivities across each area.

Niecy Nash-Betts at Casting Society’s (CSA) 39th Annual Artios Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Mar. 7, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Reza Allah-Bakhshi/Capture Imaging)

The event was also the first Artios to recognize commercial casting. Ken Lazer, the category’s inaugural recipient, gave an emotional acceptance speech where he reminisced about his father who was both a friend and mentor to him.

Several video highlight packages were played across venues honoring the likes of Ava DuVernay, The Drama Book Shop, Sharon Klein and others.

In recognition of the newly announced Academy Awards category for casting, an additional vignette aired containing various Oscar-winning speeches where actors thanked their casting directors.

DuVernay received the Lynn Stalmaster Award for Career Achievement, accepting with a warm and gracious speech in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

The LA crowd was also treated to a delightful segment with Jury Duty stars James Marsden and Ronald Gladden.

From left, Ronald Gladden and James Marsden at Casting Society’s (CSA) 39th Annual Artios Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Mar. 7, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Molly O’Keeffe/Capture Imaging)

New York City’s Edison Ballroom experienced a myriad of passionate teary-eyed speeches from casting directors such as David Caparelliotis and Bernard Telsey calling on their peers to keep pushing for further industry recognition and growing as a community.

In what felt like an impromptu moment, Cindy Tolan and Alexa Fogel thanked and awarded Telsey with a bouquet of flowers for helping push the newfound casting Oscars category. The New York casting legend then proceeded to give his own heartfelt speech as members of the casting crowd gave him a standing ovation and a rallying cry to “Get that Tony!”

To all the casting directors and their teams and the CSA, congratulations on your Artios and Academy Award victories, and thank you for all your dedication to the arts.

Below is the full list of winners at the 39th annual CSA Artios Awards:

FEATURE ANIMATION
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Mary Hidalgo

FEATURE BIG BUDGET – COMEDY
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Francine Maisler, Melissa Kostenbauder, Betsy Fippinger (Location Casting), Tara Feldstein (Location Casting), Chase Paris (Location Casting), Molly Rose (Associate Casting Director)

FEATURE BIG BUDGET – DRAMA
Killers of the Flower Moon – Ellen Lewis, Rene Haynes, Kate Sprance (Associate Casting Director)

FEATURE STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT – COMEDY
The Holdovers – Susan Shopmaker, Lisa Lobel (Location Casting), Angela Peri (Location Casting), Melissa Morris (Associate Casting Director)

FEATURE STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT – DRAMA
Past Lives – Ellen Chenoweth, Susanne Scheel

FEATURE LOW BUDGET – COMEDY OR DRAMA
Memory – Susan Shopmaker

FEATURE MICRO BUDGET – COMEDY OR DRAMA
Summoning Sylvia – Steven Tylor O’Connor

THE ZEITGEIST AWARD
Barbie – Lucy Bevan, Olivia Grant (Associate Casting Director)

FILM, NON-THEATRICAL RELEASE
Fire Island – Jessica Munks, Andrew Fem (Associate Casting Director)

TELEVISION PILOT AND FIRST SEASON – COMEDY
The Bear – Jeanie Bacharach, Mickie Paskal (Location Casting), Jennifer Rudnicke (Location Casting) AJ Links (Location Casting), Alison Goodman (Associate Casting Director)

TELEVISION PILOT AND FIRST SEASON – DRAMA
The Last of Us – Victoria Thomas, Corinne Clark (Location Casting), Jennifer Page (Location Casting), Megan Bayliss (Associate Casting Director)

TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY
Reservation Dogs – Angelique Midthunder, Chris Freihofer (Location Casting), Stacey Rice (Associate Casting Director), Tara Mazzucca (Associate Casting Director)

TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Succession – Avy Kaufman, Scotty Anderson (Associate Casting Director)

LIMITED SERIES
Beef – Charlene Lee, Claire Koonce, Danny Gordon (Associate Casting Director)

LIVE TELEVISION PERFORMANCE, VARIETY OR SKETCH – COMEDY, DRAMA or MUSICAL
A Black Lady Sketch Show – Erica A. Hart

REALITY SERIES – STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED
Queer Eye – Danielle Gervais, Pamela Vallarelli, Jessica Jorgensen, Quinn Fegan

REALITY SERIES – COMPETITION
RuPaul’s Drag Race — Goloka Bolte, Ethan Petersen

ANIMATED SERIES
Big Mouth – Julie Ashton

CHILDREN’S AND FAMILY PILOT AND SERIES– LIVE ACTION
American Born Chinese – Leslie Woo, Julina Baber (Associate Casting Director)

SHORT FILM
Motherland – Matthew Glasner

SHORT FORM SERIES
We’re Doing Good – Alexa Pereira

COMMERCIALS
Spark Autism Awareness – Ken Lazer

NEW YORK BROADWAY THEATRE – COMEDY OR DRAMA
Leopoldstadt – Jim Carnahan, Maureen Kelleher

NEW YORK BROADWAY THEATRE – MUSICAL
Into the Woods – Craig Burns, Geoff Josselson, Bernard Telsey

NEW YORK THEATRE – COMEDY OR DRAMA
Downstate – Alaine Alldaffer, JC Clementz

NEW YORK THEATRE – MUSICAL
Merrily We Roll Along – Jim Carnahan, Jason Thinger

LOS ANGELES THEATRE
The Inheritance: Part 1 & Part 2 – Phyllis Schuringa

SPECIAL THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE
Fiddler on the Roof – Tara Rubin, Merri Sugarman, Becca McCracken (Location Casting)

REGIONAL THEATRE – TIE
A Chorus Line – Stephanie Klapper
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank – David Caparelliotis

THEATRE TOURS
Six (Boleyn Tour) – Tara Rubin, Peter Van Dam, Kevin Metzger-Timson