Casting Society of America Units First Ever Digital Artios Awards for April 2021

Joining with regards to one one more predominant awards ceremony, the Casting Society of America has moved the date of its annual awards ceremony, landing on April 15, 2021 for the first-ever digital version of the Artios Awards.

That date puts the casting awards precisely 10 days earlier than the 2021 Oscars, slated for April 25 as segment of a huge scale agenda shift necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic that fully disrupted the 2020 film release calendar.

CSA additionally announced the recipients of its three particular honors. The Rosalie Joseph Humanitarian Award will drag to The Actors Fund, the charitable group that supports on the support of-the-scenes workers and has been especially main for the length of the pandemic. In the meantime, the 2021 Artios Awards will for the first time present the Hoyt Bowers Award to two recipients — Robi Reed and Tara Rubin.

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“For the first time in our history, a digital awards whisper permits CSA the different to accept as true with a unbiased correct time our craft, alongside with our membership and their contributions across the globe, in one single tournament. And in a yr that has presented a myriad of challenges, it’s especially rewarding to title the of us and organizations which could well perchance well well be making a particular impression in our field and our exchange,” Russell Boast and Filthy rich Mento, Co-Presidents, Casting Society of America stated in a joint assertion. “Our 2021 twin Hoyt Bowers recipients, Robi Reed and Tara Rubin, each an extremely accomplished artist and casting professional, alongside with honoring the substantially supportive work of the Actors Fund, underscores our group’s participation and commitments to our ingenious community.”

“This award is amazingly main to all of us. Our workers accept as true with worked tirelessly over these previous months to produce particular no disruption in our emergency financial assistance, while on the the same time strengthening and bettering our mandatory nicely being and wellness, life and occupation, and housing companies and products,” Joseph P. Benincasa, President & CEO of The Actors Fund, stated in an announcement. “To receive the Rosalie Joseph Humanitarian Award from the Casting Society of America displays the collaborative spirit of this community, and emphasizes that The Fund is here no longer ideal for folks who work on stage and on camera, but additionally for the hundreds in our exchange who work on the support of the scenes: casting directors, crew contributors, designers, writers and tons more. We are especially grateful to prolonged-time western space leaders and former CSA presidents Pam Dixon and Gary Zuckerbrod for his or her dedication to the work of The Fund. We are proud to continue to give stability and resiliency for our entertainment community, and a security receive to those in need within the upcoming months and beyond.”

“At the age of 15, what I knew is that I wanted to be a casting director and receiving the Hoyt Bowers Award will not be any longer ideal an honor, it’s a testomony to what can happen must you suspect in your self and ranking your cause,” Robi Reed stated.

“As a casting director who works nearly exclusively within the theater, it’s especially main to accept as true with this honor at a time when our exchange is experiencing devastating unemployment and an dangerous future. It’s more or less admire a ghost light – our theatres will be darkish, but that one light reminds us that we are going to be support. I relish being a casting director so being identified with a colleague – the wonderful Robi Reed – makes the trip even more particular,” Tara Rubin stated.

Launched in 1985, the Artios Awards honors Casting Directors in more than 20 categories across entertainment.

Gaze the present yell of the 2021 Awards Season calendar here.