The Academy really should give out an Oscar for Best Casting.  But until they do, we’ll just have to be happy with the annual nominations from the Casting Society of America!

Here are the 2016 nominations.  (It’s interesting to note that this is the third guild to nominate Deadpool.  How many heads would explode is Deadpool somehow landed a best picture nomination?  That probably won’t happen but the wild speculation is the best part of Oscar season!)

BIG BUDGET – COMEDY

• “Deadpool”  Ronna Kress, Jennifer Page (Location Casting), Corinne Clark  (Location Casting)
• “Hail, Caesar!”  Ellen Chenoweth, Susanne Scheel (Associate)
• “La La Land”  Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood
• “Rules Don’t Apply”  David Rubin, Melissa Pryor (Associate)
• “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”  Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Jo Edna Boldin (Location Casting), Conrad Woolfe (Associate), Marie A.K. McMaster (Associate)

BIG BUDGET – DRAMA

• “Arrival”  Francine Maisler, Lucie Robitaille (Location Casting)
• “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”   Fiona Weir, Jim Carnahan (Location Casting)
• “Hidden Figures”  Victoria Thomas, Jackie Burch (Location Casting), Bonnie Grisan (Associate)
• “Nocturnal Animals”  Francine Maisler
• “The Girl on the Train”  Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Joey Montenarello (Associate), Adam Richards (Associate)

STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT – COMEDY

• “20^th Century Women”  Laura Rosenthal, Mark Bennett
• “Bad Moms”  Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Meagan Lewis (Location Casting)
• “Café Society”  Juliet Taylor, Patricia DiCerto, Meghan Rafferty (Associate)
• “Hell or High Water”  Richard Hicks, Jo Edna Boldin, Chris Redondo (Associate), Marie A.K. McMaster (Associate)
• “The Edge of Seventeen”  Melissa Kostenbauder, Coreen Mayrs (Location Casting), Heike Brandstatter (Location Casting)

STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT – DRAMA

• “Captain Fantastic”   Jeanne McCarthy, Angelique Midthunder (Location Casting), Amey Rene (Location Casting)
• “Jackie”  Mary Vernieu, Lindsay Graham, Jessica Kelly (Location Casting)
• “Lion”  Kirsty McGregor
• “Loving”  Francine Maisler, Erica Arvold (Location Casting), Anne N. Chapman (Location Casting), Michelle Kelly (Associate)
• “Manchester By the Sea”  Douglas Aibel, Carolyn Pickman (Location Casting), Henry Russell Bergstein (Associate)

LOW BUDGET – COMEDY OR DRAMA

• “Christine”  Douglas Aibel, Stephanie Holbrook, Tracy Kilpatrick (Location Casting), Blair Foster (Associate)
• “Goat”  Susan Shopmaker, D. Lynn Meyers (Location Casting)
• “Hello, My Name is Doris”  Sunday Boling, Meg Morman
• “Moonlight”  Yesi Ramirez
• “White Girl”  Jessica Daniels

ANIMATION

• “Finding Dory”  Kevin Reher, Natalie Lyon
• “Moana”  Jamie Sparer Roberts, Rachel Sutton (Location Casting)
• “The Jungle Book”  Sarah Halley Finn, Tamara Hunter (Associate)
• “The Little Prince”  Sarah Halley Finn, Tamara Hunter (Associate)
• “Zootopia”  Jamie Sparer Roberts