When Universal finally greenlit “Wicked,” casting director Bernard Telsey certainly knew the musical. He brought Idina Menzel ...

For Good” and “Hamnet” are among those leading the Casting Society nominations. The 41st Annual Artios Awards will be held on ...

When asked about what the new Oscar category meant to him, Telsey admits he gets emotional thinking about it. “I’ve been in this profession a long time, doing theater, film, and TV, and have worked ...

Casting director Heidi Levitt has spent decades working in close collaboration with many of the most acclaimed directors of their era on some of the best - and most perfectly and audaciously cast - ...

Next year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will finally honor one of the most important filmmaking crafts with the first ever Best Casting Oscar. It's a long overdue recognition, and in ...

Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part "Wicked" movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The ...

When it comes to finding people to appear on the hit competition series The Traitors, the show’s casting director is on the hunt for one thing: authenticity. “Talk about yourself, your life, maybe and ...

The casting director behind "JFK," "Natural Born Killers," and "The Rock" talks about her powerful new documentary, which follows her husband's Alzheimer's battle, and why she's happy the Academy is ...