Casting director Juliet Taylor receives honorary Oscar – GoldDerby

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Earlier this year, the Academy announced the creation of a competitive Oscar category for casting. Although the first such award will not be presented until 2026, the invaluable profession of casting will be recognized much sooner when Julia Taylor receives an honorary Oscar for 2024 for her five decades of work in building some of the greatest acting ensembles of all time.

Along with Richard Curtis, Quincy Jones, Michael G. WilsonAnd Barbara BroccoliTaylor will be honored at the 15th annual Governors Awards. The honor is in recognition of her “iconic and beloved” body of work, which represents an “indelible contribution to the art form.” She will be the first female casting director to ever win an Oscar; the only male winner of this type was Lynn Stalmaster in 2016.

Taylor began her career by working with director William Friedkin on “The Exorcist” from 1973, which eventually earned Oscar nominations for best actor Ellen Burstyn, Linda BlairAnd Jason Miller. Since then, she has added more than 100 films to her resume, 41 of which were written and directed by Woody Allen. Some of the other filmmakers she has repeatedly collaborated with are Nora Ephron, Michael Nichols, Alan ParkerAnd Steven Spielberg.

In addition to starring in films such as The Mission (1986), Interview with the Vampire (1994) and The Birdcage (1996), Taylor is also involved in a whopping 61 Oscar-nominated roles in 29 films and four decades. The 15 winners that emerged from this group include Diane Keaton (“The Urban Neurotic”), Shirley MacLaine And Jack Nicholson (“Tenderness”), Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine”) and two-time winner of the award for Best Supporting Actress Dianne Wiest (“Hannah and Her Sisters”; “Bullets Over Broadway”).

In 2004, Taylor received an Emmy for the cast of the HBO miniseries “Angels in America,” which remains the only non-continuing series to ever win four acting Emmys (for Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Mary Louise ParkerAnd Jeffrey Wright). During her career, she was also nominated 21 times for a Casting Society of America Award, winning for “Hannah and Her Sisters” (1987), “Mississippi Burning” (1989), “Sleepless in Seattle” (1994) and “Bullets Over Broadway” (1995). She even received the organization’s special Hoyt Bowers and Golden Apple awards in 1997 and 2006, respectively.

An honorary Oscar is given “for outstanding lifetime achievement, outstanding contribution to the state of motion picture art and science in any discipline, or for outstanding service to science.” At least one of these awards has been presented during or before all but ten of the 96 Academy Awards. Since 2009, they have been awarded at a separate ceremony held several months before that year’s Oscars. Taylor and her fellow honorees will receive their trophies on Sunday, November 17.

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