{"id":348316,"date":"2026-03-16T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:28:11","slug":"cassandra-kulukundis-wins-inaugural-casting-oscar-for-one-battle-after-another-oscars-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348316\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassandra Kulukundis wins inaugural casting Oscar for One Battle After Another | Oscars 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Cassandra Kulukundis has won the first ever Oscar for casting for her work on Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/one-battle-after-another\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Battle After Another<\/a>. That film\u2019s star, Chase Infiniti, paid tribute to her on stage before Kulukundis was awarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kulukundis began her career as an intern on Anderson\u2019s debut, Hard Eight, before casting almost all his films since 1999\u2019s Magnolia, including There Will Be Blood and Inherent Vice. Other credits include Ghost World, A Late Quartet, Her and last year\u2019s Oscar heavyweight The Brutalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">She paid tribute to Anderson \u2013 who is yet to be awarded his own Oscar \u2013 on stage, saying: \u201cI just thank you for 10 movies. We\u2019ve done this for over 30 years. We grew up together, I guess, and this is freaking insane, and I have one before you, which is also crazy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kulukundis beat Jennifer Venditti (Marty Supreme), Nina Gold (Hamnet), Francine Maisler (Sinners), and Gabriel Domingues (The Secret Agent) to the inaugural prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The British Film Academy introduced a casting award in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cassandra Kulukundis has won the first ever Oscar for casting for her work on Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-348316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}