CDG Casting Awards 2024 comedy nominees revealed

Tuesday 30th January 2024, 5:36pm

Extraordinary. Image shows left to right: Carrie (Sofia Oxenham), Jizzlord (Luke Rollason), Jen (Mairead Tyers), Kash (Bilal Hasna). Credit: Joseph Sinclair, Disney+

The nominees for 'Best Casting in a TV Comedy Series' in the Casting Directors' Guild Casting Awards have been announced.

They are:

Dreaming Whilst Black

Heather Basten, Peter Noden and Fran Cattaneo (Assistants)

Extraordinary

Suzanne Crowley and Gilly Poole, Katie Mozumder (Associate)

Motherland

Sarah Crowe, Ben Marks (Associate)

Sex Education

Lauren Evans

Ted Lasso

Theo Park, Laura MacFadden (Associate)


Elsewhere in the nominations, Saltburn casting director Kharmel Cochrane and Triangle Of Sadness casting director Jessie Frost are amongst the shortlist for Best Casting in a Film. Meanwhile the Best Casting in an Independent Film category features Kharmel Cochrane again, this time for Rye Lane, and Shaheen Baig for her work on Scrapper.

The results of the awards, which are run as a partnership between The Casting Directors' Guild and Spotlight, will be announced at a ceremony on 21st February.

Co-chairs Jessica Ronane and Rebecca Wright say: "We are delighted to be celebrating the sixth edition of our CDG Awards, recognising the outstanding contributions of our members. We're very excited to reveal the winners of the ten prestigious awards this year. Huge congratulations in advance to the winners, and also to all our wonderful nominees."

To see a full list of the nominees across all ten categories visit spotlight.com

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