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    A new casting Oscar electrified film fans. It could end up being a double-edged sword

    by Glenn Whipp and Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times Mar 08, 2024 6 minutes
    Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in“ Killers of the Flower Moon.” The production worked with the Cherokee Nation Film Commission on casting and filmed some days on Cherokee Nation land.

    LOS ANGELES — Last month, the motion picture academy’s board of governors announced the creation of a competitive Oscar for casting. You won’t see an acceptance speech for another two years, when the 2026 ceremony honors the releases of 2025. But we’ve already started thinking about how such an award would have played out this year or at ceremonies past, and how the addition of a new category could affect future campaigning.

    Columnist Glenn Whipp and film editor Joshua Rothkopf sat down to discuss the pros and cons of AMPAS’ latest walk-on part: an Oscar to celebrate a long-unsung aspect of moviemaking.

    Joshua Rothkopf: I’ve had a fair degree of whiplash over this news, I must admit. Initially, my reaction was: Finally. What took them so long? Casting is, unambiguously, an art form, one that enlivens the page and fleshes out drama. It wouldn’t be overstating the case to point to certain bold casting choices — Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” say, or Clint Eastwood in “A Fistful of Dollars” — and see not merely the arrival of major screen stars but

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