BAFTA Award for Best Casting

BAFTA Award for Best Casting
Awarded forBest Casting
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held bySusan Shopmaker for The Holdovers (2023)
Websitehttps://www.bafta.org/

The BAFTA Award for Best Casting is one of the annual film awards given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts since 2020.

In August 2019, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the introduction of the category. BAFTA chair Pippa Harris said in a statement: "We are delighted this year to be including the highly skilled work of casting directors for the first time. Casting is essential to the screen industries, and vital in terms of promoting diversity and inclusion on screen. We hope this Award will also help to promote an understanding of casting".[1][2][3]

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

  1. ^ Pulver, Andrew (7 August 2019). "Bafta film and TV awards introduce new casting category". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  2. ^ Ritman, Alex (7 August 2019). "BAFTA Adding Casting Category to 2020 Film, TV Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  3. ^ Ritman, Alex (2 February 2020). "After BAFTA Adds Award for Casting Directors, Will the Oscars Follow?". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2 February 2020.