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Best Casting

This is the first year for the Best Casting category, though the Casting Directors branch has been part of the Academy for years. A preliminary shortlist of 10 potential nominees will be announced in December.

Erik Anderson

Updated October 19, 2025 12:28pm

Sinners

Warner Bros.

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Wicked: For Good

Universal

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

Hamnet

Focus Features

Sonny Bunch

Updated October 13, 2025 11:40am

Sinners

Warner Bros.

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Wicked: For Good

Universal

Hamnet

Focus Features

David Canfield

Updated October 8, 2025 5:47pm

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Sentimental Value

Neon

Hamnet

Focus Features

Sophia Ciminello

Updated December 9, 2025 11:41am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Hamnet

Focus Features

Sentimental Value

Neon

Tyler Coates

Updated December 16, 2025 11:21am

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Weapons

Warner Bros.

Hamnet

Focus Features

Gregory Ellwood

Updated November 19, 2025 1:07pm

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Hamnet

Focus Features

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Sentimental Value

Neon

Joyce Eng

Updated December 4, 2025 2:56pm

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Hamnet

Focus Features

Marty Supreme

A24

Sentimental Value

Neon

Chris Feil

Updated December 16, 2025 11:50am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Hamnet

Focus Features

Marty Supreme

A24

The Secret Agent

Neon

Brian Formo

Updated November 20, 2025 6:32am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Hamnet

Focus Features

Jay Kelly

Netflix

Tomris Laffly

Updated October 8, 2025 8:10am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Hamnet

Focus Features

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

Richard Lawson

Updated October 13, 2025 1:03pm

Sinners

Warner Bros.

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Hamnet

Focus Features

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

Shirley Li

Updated November 30, 2025 12:37pm

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Sentimental Value

Neon

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Hamnet

Focus Features

Ryan McQuade

Updated December 5, 2025 11:16am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Sentimental Value

Neon

Hamnet

Focus Features

Weapons

Warner Bros.

Drew McWeeny

Updated November 20, 2025 2:04pm

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

Nouvelle Vague

Netflix

Avatar: Fire and Ash

20th Century

Frankenstein

Netflix

Matt Neglia

Updated October 15, 2025 6:29pm

Sinners

Warner Bros.

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Wicked: For Good

Universal

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

20th Century

Jay Kelly

Netflix

Joe Reid

Updated October 8, 2025 7:25pm

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

Marty Supreme

A24

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Jay Kelly

Netflix

Is This Thing On?

Searchlight Pictures

Katey Rich

Updated December 18, 2025 11:52am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

The Secret Agent

Neon

Sentimental Value

Neon

Joanna Robinson

Updated October 30, 2025 1:39pm

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Hamnet

Focus Features

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Christopher Rosen

Updated January 7, 2026 12:42pm

Sinners

Warner Bros.

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Hamnet

Focus Features

Sentimental Value

Neon

Michael Schulman

Updated December 17, 2025 7:45am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Weapons

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Hamnet

Focus Features

David Sims

Updated October 14, 2025 8:00am

Marty Supreme

A24

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Wicked: For Good

Universal

Hamnet

Focus Features

Katie Walsh

Updated October 22, 2025 7:43am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

The Smashing Machine

A24

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

Steven Weintraub

Updated December 2, 2025 11:38am

Bugonia

Focus Features

Hamnet

Focus Features

Nouvelle Vague

Netflix

It Was Just an Accident

Neon

Jada Yuan

Updated December 22, 2025 4:29pm

Sinners

Warner Bros.

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Hamnet

Focus Features

The Secret Agent

Neon

Esther Zuckerman

Updated December 18, 2025 10:53am

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

Marty Supreme

A24

Sinners

Warner Bros.

Sirāt

Neon

Wicked: For Good

Universal

Best Casting Leaderboard

All films sorted by the percentage of pundits predicting a nomination in this category

92%

Sinners

Warner Bros.

92%

One Battle After Another

Warner Bros.

80%

Marty Supreme

A24

76%

Hamnet

Focus Features

32%

Sentimental Value

Neon

28%

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Netflix

20%

Wicked: For Good

Universal

12%

Jay Kelly

Netflix

12%

The Secret Agent

Neon

12%

Weapons

Warner Bros.

Nouvelle Vague

Netflix

It Was Just an Accident

Neon

Is This Thing On?

Searchlight Pictures

Frankenstein

Netflix

Sirāt

Neon

The Smashing Machine

A24

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

20th Century

Bugonia

Focus Features

Avatar: Fire and Ash

20th Century

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