Casting Directors Forecast an Alternate Best-Casting Oscar (2010–2025)
The Hollywood Reporter’s Ben Zauzmer reports on a Casting Society of America poll in which 92 casting directors ranked their top five 2010–2025 films as likely Best Casting nominees and then used Oscar-style ranked-choice voting to pick hypothetical winners. The results map a history of casting selections—for years like 2010 Inglourious Basterds, 2011 The Social Network, 2012 The Help, 2013 Argo, 2014 12 Years a Slave, 2015 Birdman, 2016 Spotlight, 2017 Moonlight, 2018 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, 2019 Black Panther, 2020 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 2021 Nomadland, 2022 CODA, 2023 Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2024 Oppenheimer, and 2025 Wicked—to illustrate how a Best Casting award would correlate with Best Picture status and acting nominations, while noting data limitations and other insights from the survey.