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On Thursday night, the Casting Society announced their winners for the 41st annual Artios Awards — the first to take place since the Oscars’ introduction of their own casting category.
This should bode well for Francine Maisler, who took home the Artios in the big-budget feature drama category for her work on Sinners, beating out fellow Oscar nominees Jennifer Venditti (Marty Supreme, and also nominated here but not at the Oscars for Bugonia) and Nina Gold (Hamnet). Maisler had a big night overall, also winning on the TV side alongside Melissa Kostenbauder for her work on Apple TV+’s The Studio in the first-season comedy category. All in all, Maisler has now won 17 Artios Awards. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-article-mid-article-uid0' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid-article1","mid-articleX","mid","mid-article"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article") .addSize([[300,250],[2,2],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; }); Related Stories TV 2026 PGA Awards: 'The Making of Adolescence' Wins Shortform Prize While 'Wizard of Oz at Sphere' Wins Innovation Award TV Streaming Ratings: 'Bridgerton' Returns Higher With Season 4 Debut
The studio/independent drama category saw Avy Kaufman’s work for Sentimental Value win out, despite her narrow miss with the Academy (she was shortlisted at the Oscars), over other acclaimed titles like Blue Moon and Train Dreams. Other films to win include big-budget feature comedy Jay Kelly, which Gold cast with Douglas Aibel; Rental Family, the Brendan Fraser-led, Japan-set studio/independent comedy cast by Kei Kawamura; animated feature Zootopia 2; international feature The Fisherman; and the A24 darling Sorry Baby, triumphing in the low-budget field. (Some Oscar contenders unaffiliated with the Casting Society, like One Battle After Another, were not eligible for any Artios Awards.)
Over in TV, several Emmy favorites again repeated, with Cathy Sandrich Gelfond of The Pitt snagging best first-season drama and Adolescence’s Shaheen Baig coming out on top for limited series. Because the Casting Society separates returning and new programming, this paved the way for Severance and Hacks to win their categories’ top awards as well. blogherads.adq.push(function () { blogherads .defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-dsk-tab-mid-article2-uid1' ) .setTargeting( 'pos', ["mid","mid-article2","mid-articleX"] ) .setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' ) .setSubAdUnitPath("ros\/mid-article2") .addSize([[300,250],[300,251],[620,350],[2,4],[4,2],[320,480],[620,366]]) .setClsOptimization("minsize") ; });
Three Artios ceremonies were held concurrently on Thursday, with What We Do in the Shadows’ Harvey Guillén hosting at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, Somebody Somewhere’s Jeff Hiller at The Edison Ballroom in New York and Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning at One Moorgate Place in London. Presenters included Oscar winners Marcia Gay Harden and Marlee Matlin, Heated Rivalry breakout François Arnaud and The Pitt stars Supriya Ganesh and Sepideh Moafi.
See below for the full list of winners, including special career awards.
STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT FEATURE COMEDY
FEATURE: STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT: DRAMA
FEATURE: LOW BUDGET: COMEDY OR DRAMA
TELEVISION (SCRIPTED AND UNSCRIPTED), COMMERCIALS, SHORT FILM, SHORT FORM SERIES WINNERS
FILM, FIRST RELEASED FOR TELEVISION OR STREAMING
TELEVISION PILOT AND FIRST SEASON: COMEDY
TELEVISION PILOT AND FIRST SEASON: DRAMA
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LIVE ACTION CHILDREN & FAMILY SERIES
ANIMATED PROGRAM FOR TELEVISION
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION SERIES
- BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB: Xavier Rubiano, Tara Rubin, Associate Casting Director: Frankie Ramirez
- MAYBE HAPPY ENDING: Craig Burns, Associate Casting Director: Jimmy Larkin
NEW YORK THEATER: COMEDY OR DRAMA
SPECIAL THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE
LYNN STALMASTER AWARD FOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
ROSALIE JOSEPH HUMANITARIAN AWARD
HOYT BOWARS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CASTING
CAPELIER-SHAW AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CASTING
