Casting By
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| Directed by | Tom Donahue |
| Produced by | Kate Lacey Tom Donahue Joanna Colbert Ilan Arboleda |
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Marion Dougherty Lynn Stalmaster Woody Allen Jeff Bridges Glenn Close Robert De Niro Richard Dreyfuss Robert Duvall Clint Eastwood Danny Glover Diane Lane Bette Midler Al Pacino Robert Redford Martin Scorsese John Travolta Jon Voight |
| Music by | Leigh Roberts |
| Cinematography | Peter Bolte |
| Edited by | Jill Schweitzer |
| Distributed by | Submarine Deluxe |
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Casting By is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Tom Donahue. It combines over 230 interviews, extensive archival footage, animated stills and documents to tell the untold tale of the Hollywood casting director.
The film had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and its US premiere at the New York Film Festival in 2012. It was acquired by HBO Documentary Films in Toronto and had its US Broadcast premiere as part of the HBO Documentary Summer Series on August 5, 2013. In September 2013, the US theatrical rights were acquired by Submarine Deluxe.
The film is a celebration of the casting profession, highlighting its previously unsung role in film history while also serving as an elegy to the lost era of the New Hollywood. It focuses on casting pioneer Marion Dougherty, an iconoclast whose exquisite taste, tenacity and gut instincts brought a new kind of actor to the screen that would mark the end of the old studio system and help to usher in this revolutionary new period. The film draws a line through the last half century to show us the profession’s evolution from studio system type-casting to the rise of large ensemble films populated with unique and diverse casts.
In their July 25, 2013 cover story on the film ("Rise of the Casting Directors"), Backstage wrote, "the film features what is arguably the greatest assemblage of talking-head star power in any documentary ever made."
The interviewees include numerous Hollywood legends: Woody Allen, Ed Asner, Jeanine Basinger, Ned Beatty, Tony Bill, Peter Bogdanovich, Stephen Bowie, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Ronny Cox, Robert De Niro, Richard Donner, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Duvall, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Taylor Hackford, Paul Haggis, Jerome Hellman, Buck Henry, Arthur Hiller, Norman Jewison, Diane Lane, Ed Lauter, Norman Lear, John Lithgow, Gary Marsh, Paul Mazursky, Bette Midler, Al Pacino, David Picker, Robert Redford, James Rosin, John Sayles, Jerry Schatzberg, Martin Scorsese, Terry Semel, Ralph Senensky, James Sheldon, Cybill Shepherd, Susan Smith, Oliver Stone, Mel Stuart, John Travolta, Jon Voight, Paula Weinstein, Burt Young.
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