36th Artios Awards

Date

April 15, 2021 (2021-04-15)

Country

United States

Presented by

Casting Society of America

Hosted by

Yvette Nicole Brown

Website

www.castingsociety.com/awards/artios

← 35th ·

Artios Awards

· 37th →

36th Artios Awards, presented by the Casting Society of America, honoring the best originality, creativity and the contribution of casting to the overall quality of a film, television, theatre and short-form projects, was held on April 15, 2021, virtually.^[1]

The television, theater, short film and short-form nominations were announced on January 8, 2021.^[2] The film nominations were announced on February 19, 2021.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface:^[4]

Film

Big Budget – Comedy Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Nancy Bishop Enola Holmes – Jina Jay The King of Staten Island – Gayle Keller, David Rubin; Associate: Allison Kirschner The Prom – Alexa L. Fogel; Associate: Kathryn Zamora-Benson, Alison Goodman On the Rocks – Courtney Bright, Nicole Daniels	Big Budget – Drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Francine Maisler; Location Casting: Mia Cusumano, Jennifer Rudnicke, Mickie Pascal; Associate: Kathy Driscoll-Mohler, Molly Rose, AJ Links Da 5 Bloods – Kim Coleman; Location Casting: Juliette Menager Hillbilly Elegy – Carmen Cuba; Location Casting: Tara Feldstein Bennett, Chase Paris, D. Lynn Meyers; Associate: Judith Sunga Judas and the Black Messiah – Alexa L. Fogel; Location Casting: Donna Belajac; Associate: Elizabeth Berra, Missy Finnell Mulan – Debra Zane; Chinese Casting Consultant: PoPing AuYeung; Associate: Dylan Jury
Studio or Independent – Comedy The Forty-Year-Old Version – Jessica Daniels Ammonite – Fiona Weir French Exit – Nicole Arbusto; Location Casting: Lucie Robitaille Happiest Season – Rich Delia; Location Casting: Donna Belajac; Associate: Adam Richards, Missy Finnell Let Them All Talk – Carmen Cuba The Personal History of David Copperfield – Sarah Crowe	Studio or Independent – Drama One Night in Miami... – Kimberly R. Hardin; Location Casting: Tracy Kilpatrick The Dig – Lucy Bevan Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Avy Kaufman; Location Casting: Nancy Mosser; Associate: Scotty Anderson The Mauritanian – Nina Gold; Location Casting: Christa Schamberger Pieces of a Woman – Jessica Kelly Promising Young Woman – Mary Vernieu, Lindsay Graham Ahanonu
Low Budget – Comedy or Drama Minari – Julia Kim; Location Casting: Chris Freihofer All Day and a Night – Kim Coleman; Location Casting: Nina Henninger; Associate: Sarah Kliban The Assistant – Avy Kaufman; Associate: Scotty Anderson Herself – Louise Kiely Sound of Metal – Susan Shopmaker; Location Casting: Angela Peri, Lisa Lobel; Associate: Emily Fleischer	Micro Budget – Comedy or Drama The Surrogate – Erica Hart American Skin – Tracy "Twinkie" Byrd, Kelly Knox Black Bear – Henry Russell Bergstein, Allison Estrin, Jenn Gaw Inez & Doug & Kira – Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee; Associate: Roya Semnanian, Joey Montenarello International Falls – Matthew Lessall Miss Juneteenth – Chelsea Ellis Bloch
Animation Soul – Kevin Reher, Natalie Lyon; Associate: Kate Hansen-Birnbaum The Croods: A New Age – Christi Soper Hilt Onward – Kevin Reher, Natalie Lyon Trolls World Tour – Christi Soper Hilt

Television

Television Series – Comedy What We Do in the Shadows – Gayle Keller; Location Casting: Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay Better Things – Felicia Fasano; Associate: Katie Lantz Dead to Me – Sherry Thomas, Russell Scott, Sharon Bialy; Associate: Alyssa Morris Insecure – Victoria Thomas The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Cindy Tolan; Associate: Anne Davison	Television Series – Drama Succession – Avy Kaufman Big Little Lies – David Rubin; Associate: Andrea Bunker The Handmaid's Tale – Sharon Bialy, Sherry Thomas, Russell Scott; Location Casting: Robin D. Cook; Associate: Stacia Kimler, Jonathan Oliveira Ozark – Alexa L. Fogel; Location Casting: Chase Paris, Tara Feldstein Bennett; Associate: Kathryn Zamora-Benson Pose – Alexa L. Fogel; Associate: Elizabeth Berra
Television Pilot and First Season – Comedy The Great – Rose Wicksteed Modern Love – Laura Rosenthal, Maribeth Fox, Jodi Angstreich Never Have I Ever – Brett Greenstein, Collin Daniel; Associate: Danny Dunitz The Politician – Alexa L. Fogel; Associate: Kathryn Zamora-Benson, Alison Goodman Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist – Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, Alex Newman; Location Casting: Coreen Mayrs, Heike Brandstatter, Erinn Lally, Annalese Tilling	Television Pilot and First Season – Drama Euphoria – Mary Vernieu, Jessica Kelly, Jennifer Venditti; Associate: Bret Howe The Boys – Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, Alex Newman; Location Casting: Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay The Mandalorian – Sarah Finn; Associate: Jason Stamey The Morning Show – Victoria Thomas The Outsider – Alexa L. Fogel; Location Casting: Chase Paris, Tara Feldstein Bennett; Associate: Kathryn Zamora-Benson
Limited Series Normal People – Louise Kiely Little Fires Everywhere – David Rubin Mrs. America – Carmen Cuba; Location Casting: Robin D. Cook; Associate: Charley Medigovich, Jonathan Oliveira Unbelievable – Laura Rosenthal, Jodi Angstreich, Kate Caldwell, Melissa Kostenbauder; Associate: Kim Guzman, Anthony Kraus Watchmen – Victoria Thomas; Location Casting: Meagan Lewis	Film, Non-Theatrical Release Bad Education – Ellen Lewis, Kate Sprance In the Shadow of the Moon – Ellen Chenoweth; Location Casting: John Buchan, Jason Knight; Associate: Susanne Scheel, Morgyn Johnston Patsy & Loretta – Susan Edelman; Location Casting: Mark Fincannon To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You – Tamara-Lee Notcutt; Location Casting: Tiffany Mak Troop Zero – Mary Vernieu, Lindsay Graham; Location Casting: Lisa Mae Fincannon; Associate: Kimberly Wistedt
Live Television Performance, Variety or Sketch Comedy A Black Lady Sketch Show – Victoria Thomas Drunk History – Melissa DeLizia John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch – Jim Carnahan, Carrie Gardner, Jillian Cimini Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" – Marc Hirschfeld, Geralyn Flood	Children's Pilot and Series (Live Action) The Baby-Sitters Club – Amber Horn, Danielle Aufiero; Location Casting: Tiffany Mak All That – Nickole Doro, Shayna Sherwood Bunk'd – Howard Meltzer; Associate: Biz Urban High School Musical: The Musical: The Series – Julie Ashton Young Dylan – Kim Coleman
Television Animation Big Mouth – Julie Ashton Bob's Burgers – Julie Ashton Central Park – Julie Ashton Harley Quinn – Robert McGee, Ruth Lambert Rick and Morty – Robert McGee, Ruth Lambert	Reality Series Queer Eye – Danielle Gervais, Beyhan Oguz, Pamela Vallarelli; Location Casting: Ally Capriotti Grant Born This Way – Megan Sleeper, Sasha Alpert Nailed It! – Samantha Hanks, Shannon McCarty, Heather Allyn RuPaul's Drag Race – Goloka Bolte, Ethan Petersen Top Chef – Samantha Hanks

Short-Form Projects

Short Film

Netuser – Stephanie Klapper
- -Ship: A Visual Poem – Kate Geller
- Beefcakes – Nicole Arbusto
- Cap – Daniel Cabeza
- No More Wings – Heather Basten
- Shadows – Daryl Eisenberg, Ally Beans

Short Form Series

#FreeRayshawn – Jessica Kelly, Mary Vernieu; Location Casting: Brent Caballero
- Dead Girls Detective Agency – Arlie Day
- Girls Room – Jennifer Presser, Caitlin Well
- Most Dangerous Game – Mary Vernieu, Raylin Sabo; Location Casting: Stephanie Gorin
- The Stranger – Junie Lowry Johnson, Libby Goldstein; Associate: Josh Ropiequet

Theatre

New York Broadway Theatre – Musical Tina: the Tina Turner Musical – Patrick Goodwin, Bernard Telsey Jagged Little Pill – Stephen Kopel Moulin Rouge! the Musical – Jim Carnahan, Stephen Kopel	New York Broadway Theatre – Play Slave Play – Taylor Williams Grand Horizons – Will Cantler, Karyn Casl The Great Society – Daniel Swee The Inheritance (Parts 1 & 2) – Jordan Thaler, Heidi Griffiths; Associate: Rebecca Feldman The Sound Inside – Will Cantler, Karyn Casl
New York Broadway Theatre – Revival, Play A Soldier's Play – Jim Carnahan Betrayal – Jim Carnahan, Alexandre Bleau The Rose Tattoo – Jim Carnahan, Carrie Gardner
New York Theatre – Musical Little Shop of Horrors – Jim Carnahan Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice – Rachel Hoffman Cyrano – Patrick Goodwin The Secret Life of Bees – Patrick Goodwin Sing Street – Tara Rubin, Peter Van Dam	New York Theatre – Play All the Natalie Portmans – Will Cantler, Destiny Lilly Anatomy of a Suicide – Karyn Casl Dracula – Karyn Casl Macbeth – Karyn Casl, Destiny Lilly The Young Man from Atlanta – David Caparelliotis
Regional Theatre – Musical Six – Tara Rubin, Peter Van Dam Fly – Patrick Goodwin Gun & Powder – Tara Rubin; Associate: Kevin Metzger-Thompson In the Heights – Chad Eric Murnane Into the Woods – Stephanie Klapper Once on This Island – Stephanie Klapper	Regional Theatre – Play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Jim Carnahan, Alexandre Bleau A Human Being, of a Sort – Karyn Casl, Destiny Lilly A Raisin in the Sun – Karyn Casl, Destiny Lilly Ghosts – Karyn Casl "Master Harold"...and the Boys – Tara Rubin
Los Angeles Theatre Little Shop of Horrors – Ryan Bernard Tymensky A Play Is A Poem – Will Cantler, Karyn Casl; Associate: Destiny Lilly Good Boys – Tiffany Little Canfield, Ryan Bernard Tymensky Key Largo – Jeff Greenberg Witch – Phyllis Schuringa	Special Theatrical Performance Pride Plays – James Calleri, Erica Jensen, Paul Davis The 24 Hour Plays Broadway Gala – Stephanie Klapper Into the Woods – Chad Eric Murnane Kinky Boots – Patrick Goodwin Mack and Mabel – Mark Brandon
Theatre Tours The Band's Visit – Tara Rubin, Peter Van Dam Frozen – Rachel Hoffman, Laura Wade Mean Girls – Bethany Knox Once on This Island – Craig Burns Summer: The Donna Summer Musical – Tara Rubin, Felicia Rudolph

Rosalie Joseph Humanitarian Award

The Actors Fund

Hoyt Bowers Award

Robi Reed
Tara Rubin

Associate Spotlight Award

Gianna Butler
Michael Rios

References

^ Lincoln, Ross A. (November 19, 2020). "Casting Society of America Sets First Ever Virtual Artios Awards for April 2021". TheWrap. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
^ Lewis, Hilary (January 8, 2021). "Artios Awards: Casting Directors for 'The Boys,' 'Pose,' 'Watchmen' Among TV Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
^ Pedersen, Erik (February 19, 2021). "Artios Awards Film Nominations: 'Borat', 'Da 5 Bloods', 'Chicago 7', 'One Night In Miami' & More Up For Casting Society Prizes". Deadline. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
^ Pedersen, Erik (April 15, 2021). "'Trial Of The Chicago 7', 'Borat', 'Soul', 'One Night In Miami' & 'Minari' Take Film Prizes At Casting Society's Artios Awards". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 26, 2021.