The CDG Casting Awards 2026
NOMINATIONS
Event Partner: EON Productions
Headline Sponsor: Spotlight
Event Partner: EON Productions
Headline Sponsor: Spotlight
The Casting Directors’ Guild are delighted to showcase the nominations for the 2026 CDG Casting Awards. Now in its eighth year, the CDG Casting awards celebrate the incredible work achieved by casting teams across Film, Television, Theatre, Commercials and Games.
The nominated productions premiered between the 1st January 2025 and 31st December 2025 and have been selected by members of the Casting Directors’ Guild.
The awards will take place on Thursday 12th February 2026
Best Casting in a TV Drama Series
Sponsored by United Agents
A Thousand Blows | Casting Director: Shaheen Baig
Dept. Q | Casting Director: Olivia Scott-Webb
House of Guinness | Casting Director: Kahleen Crawford, Associate: Carla Morris
Riot Women | Casting Director: Rachel Sheridan, Associates: Katie Mozumder & Martin Poile
Slow Horses (S5) | Casting Directors: Nina Gold & Melissa Gethin Clarke
Best Casting in a TV Comedy Series
Sponsored by Conway Van Gelder Grant
Amandaland | Casting Director: Rachel Sheridan, Associate: Martin Poile & Katie Mozumder
Big Boys Series 3 | Casting Director: Rachel Sheridan, Associate: Martin Poile
Dreaming Whilst Black (Season 2) | Casting Director: Heather Basten, Associate: Ri McDaid-Wren
Film Club | Casting Director: Kelly Valentine Hendry, Co-Casting Director: Jessica Mescall
Too Much | Co-Casting Directors: Nina Gold & Sacha Garrett
Best Casting in an Independent Film (under £8m)
Sponsored by Independent Talent Group
I Swear | Casting Director: Lauren Evans, Associate: Melissa Wilkins
Mr Burton | Casting Director: Kelly Valentine Hendry, Associate: Maximillian Murphy
Pillion | Casting Director: Kahleen Crawford, Associate: Carla Morris
The Ballad of Wallis Island | Casting Director: Catherine Willis, Associate: Sarah Harkins
Urchin | Casting Director: Shaheen Baig
Best Casting in a Film (over £8m) Includes straight to TV
Sponsored by Apple TV
28 Years Later | Casting Director: Gail Stevens
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Casting Director: Lucy Bevan, Co-Casting Director: Olivia Grant, Associate: Lucy Downes
F1 | Casting Director: Lucy Bevan, Co-Casting Director: Emily Brockmann, Associate: Katie Brydon
Hamnet | Casting Director: Nina Gold, Associates: Lucy Amos & Amy Beadel, Assistant: Steph Tataryn
Warfare | Casting Director: Kharmel Cochrane
Best Casting in Theatre (inside M25)
Sponsored by The Partnership Group
1536 | Casting Director: Amy Ball
Every Brilliant Thing | Casting Director: Jessica Ronane, Associate: Abby Galvin, Assistant: Poppy Apter
Inter Alia | Casting Director: Alastair Coomer, Associate: Naomi Downham
Oh, Mary! | Casting Director: Stuart Burt, Associate: Peter Noden
Punch (Young Vic/Apollo Theatre) | Casting Director: Christopher Worrall
Wendy and Peter Pan | Casting Director: Annelie Powell, Associate: Gabriella Shimeld-Fenn
Best Casting in a Commercial
Sponsored by Bang Studios
Boots: You’re Never Too Far From a Pharmacist | Casting Director: Anna Kennedy
Irn Bru; This is Not a Soft Drink | Casting Director: Sally McCleery, Assistant: Elisa Musson
Medical Aid For Palestinians ‘I Know’ | Casting Director: Sue Odell
The Booker Prize 2025 | Casting Director: Nanw Rowlands, Casting Associate: Harry Parker
The Christmas Double – EE Christmas 2025 | Co-Casting Director: Kharmel Cochrane
Best Casting in Musical Theatre (Inside M25)
Sponsored by YOU Management
Clueless | Casting Director: Olivia Laydon for Jill Green Casting, Associate: Tom Shiels
Into The Woods – The Bridge Theatre | Casting Director: Stuart Burt, Associate: Peter Noden
Oliver! | Casting Directors: Felicity French & Paul Wooller, Associate: Lily Caisley
Paddington The Musical | Casting Director: Natalie Gallacher, Associates: Grace McInerny & Richard Johnston,Young Person’s Casting Director: Nicholas Hockaday
Sing Street – Lyric Hammersmith | Casting Director: Stuart Burt, Associate: Peter Noden
Best Casting in a Limited or Single Series
Sponsored by Apple TV
Adolescence | Casting Director: Shaheen Baig
Amadeus | Casting Director: Martin Ware, Associate: Olivia Brittain
Death By Lightning | UK Casting Director: Lauren Evans, Associate: Melissa Wilkins
Toxic Town | Casting Director: Shaheen Baig, Associate: Jonny Boutwood
Unforgivable | Casting Director: Amy Hubbard, Co-Casting Director: Shannon Dowling-McNulty, Associate: Heidi Lawry
Best Casting in Regional Theatre
(Outside of M25 includes Plays & Musicals)
Animal Farm | Casting Director: Lucy Casson
Cyrano de Bergerac | Casting Director: Matthew Dewsbury, Childrens Casting: Charlie Metcalf
Dancing at Lughnasa | Casting Director: Arthur Carrington
Lord of the Flies | Casting Director: Jacob Sparrow
Titus Andronicus (RSC) | Casting Director: Matthew Dewsbury, Childrens Casting: Charlie Metcalf
Best Child Casting
(all Media)
Adolescence | Casting Director: Shaheen Baig
Goodbye June | Casting Director: Olivia Grant, Associate: Lucy Downes
Hamnet | Casting Director: Nina Gold, Associates: Lucy Amos & Amy Beadel, Assistant: Steph Tataryn
I Swear | Casting Director: Lauren Evans, Associate: Melissa Wilkins
Paddington The Musical | Childrens Casting: Nicholas Hockaday
The Death of Bunny Munro | Casting Director: Shaheen Baig