Casting Directors 2025 The behind-the-scenes creatives with a sixth sense about chemistry, star power and more are getting their own category at the 98th Academy Awards. Here’s to the casting directors who worked on some of the year’s best movies By Casey Loving, Joe McGovern, Steve Pond and Missy Schwartz Photography by Elizabeth Weinberg “We are the first crew people on a film after the screenplay’s been written and the director is on board,” David Rubin said of the women and men (not the