Oscars's video: Rodrigo Garc a Julia Kim Victoria Thomas Academy Dialogues: Color-Conscious Casting

Can a renewed creative collaboration between casting directors and filmmakers offer a tremendous opportunity to better reflect the world on screen as it truly is today? Elvis Mitchell, film critic and host of the KCRW radio show “The Treatment,” moderates a panel with Academy governor and director/writer Rodrigo García (“Mother and Child”), and casting directors Julia Kim (“The Last Black Man in San Francisco”) and Victoria Thomas (“Once upon a Time…in Hollywood”). Table of Contents 0:00 - Color-Conscious Casting Intro 0:32 - Reflecting on color-conscious casting 4:06 - Future Best Picture requirements 9:21 - Making space for people of color 12:02 - Collaborating with filmmakers on casting 15:03 - Casting chemistry 25:28 - Remembering their first casting job 32:09 - Gravitating to casting and movies 39:16 Unique points of view in casting 44:52 - Creating film worlds with casting 51:55 - USC Annenberg inclusion Study 55:37 - Academy Dialogues recommendations Subscribe for more @Oscars videos ►► http://osca.rs/subscribeyt is a new series of virtual panels for members and the public, as a part of Academy Aperture 2025, called “Academy Dialogues: It Starts with Us,” with conversations about race, ethnicity, gender, history, opportunity and the art of filmmaking. These discussions focus on the industry-wide systemic changes that are needed to afford greater opportunities to women and people from underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and to create a new narrative for recovery. More information on "Academy Dialogues: It Starts with Us," can be found here: https://www.oscars.org/news/academy-launches-new-conversation-series-race-and-gender-equity-filmmaking-academy-dialogues-it ía