Nominations Announced for Casting Society’s 41st Artios Awards

The nominees for the 2026 Artios Awards have been announced by the Casting Society of America. Take a look below, especially as the Best Casting category at the Oscars is set to be debuted. Could this precursor hold a few clues? Time will tell.

Here are the Artios nominations for 2026:

FEATURE: BIG BUDGET: COMEDY

Jay Kelly
Douglas Aibel, Nina Gold, Associate Casting Director: Matthew Glasner, Location Casting Directors: Francesco Vedovati, Barbara Giordani

Materialists
Douglas Aibel, Associate Casting Director: Matthew Glasner

The Naked Gun
Carmen Cuba, Associate Casting Director: Judith Sunga, Location Casting Directors: Tara Feldstein Bennett, Chase Paris

The Phoenician Scheme
Douglas Aibel (Us Casting), Jina Jay (Uk Casting), Alexandra Montag (German Casting), Associate Casting Director: Matthew Glasner

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Mary Vernieu, Bret Howe, Location Casting Director: Martin Ware, Location Associate Casting Director: Olivia Brittain

Wicked: For Good
Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Associate Casting Director: Ryan Bernard Tymensky, Location Casting Director: Tamsyn Manson

FEATURE: BIG BUDGET: DRAMA

Bugonia
Jennifer Venditti, Associate Casting Director: Alan Scott Neal

F1: The Movie
Lucy Bevan, Emily Brockmann, Associate Casting Director: Katie Brydon, Location Casting Directors: Tara Feldstein Bennett, Chase Paris, Tara Mazzucca

Frankenstein
Robin D. Cook, Associate Casting Director: Jonathan Oliveira

Hamnet
Nina Gold, Associate Casting Director: Lucy Amos

Marty Supreme
Jennifer Venditti, Associate Casting Director: Alan Scott Neal, Location Casting Director: Ko Iwagami

Sinners
Francine Maisler, Associate Casting Directors: Molly Rose, Amber Wakefield, Location Casting Director: Meagan Lewis

FEATURE: ANIMATED

Elio
Natalie Lyon, Kevin Reher, Kate Hansen-Birnbaum, Associate Casting Director: Lexi Diamond

The Bad Guys 2
Christi Soper Hilt, Associate Casting Director: Lara Boushehri

Zootopia 2
Grace C. Kim

FEATURE: STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT: COMEDY

Eternity
Tiffany Mak, Chelsea Ellis Bloch, Marisol Roncali

Friendship
Melissa Delizia

Oh, Hi!
Kate Geller, Associate Casting Director: Ross Shenker

Rental Family
Kei Kawamura

The Wedding Banquet
Jenny Jue, Location Casting Director: Candice Elzinga

Twinless
Jessica Munks, Location Casting Director: Simon Max Hill

FEATURE: STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT: DRAMA

Blue Moon
Olivia Scott-Webb, Associate Casting Director: Simon Higgins

Eleanor the Great
Ellen Lewis, Kate Sprance, Associate Casting Director: Leah Shapiro

Nuremberg
John Papsidera, Anna Kennedy, Associate Casting Director: Emily Bohbrink, Location Casting Director: Francesco Vedovati

Pillion
Kahleen Crawford

Sentimental Value
Avy Kaufman

Train Dreams
Avy Kaufman, Location Casting Director: Nike Imoru

FEATURE: INTERNATIONAL 

Kokuho
Masunobu Motokawa

Sound of Falling
Karimah El-Giamal

The Fisherman
Mawuko Kuadzi

FEATURE: LOW BUDGET: COMEDY OR DRAMA

All That We Love
Charlene Lee, Associate Casting Director: Danny Gordon

Bob Trevino Likes It
Kate Geller, Associate Casting Director: Ross Shenker

Griffin in Summer
Betsy Ware Fippinger, Location Casting Director: Erica Arvold

Plainclothes
Bernard Telsey, Adam Caldwell, Amelia Rasche Mccarthy

Sorry, Baby
Jessica Kelly, Location Casting Directors: Lisa Lobel, Angela Peri, Location Associate Casting Director: Melissa Morris

We Strangers
Erica A. Hart, Location Casting Director: Lauren Port

LONDON THEATRE 

My Master Builder
Sophie Holland

Oedipus
Jim Carnahan, Associate Casting Director: Liz Fraser

The Devil Wears Prada
Jill Green, Associate Casting Director: Olivia Laydon

The Importance of Being Earnest
Alastair Coomer

The Little Foxes
Jessica Ronane

Titanique
James Pearson, Rosie Pearson