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The Boiling Point TV series, The Banshees of Inisherin, Rye Lane and Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical are among the U.K. Casting Directors’ Guild Awards winners for 2024.

The sixth CDG Casting Awards, handed out Wednesday evening in London, also honored the likes of the theater play Dear England, a TV adaptation of which Sky has just unveiled.

Competing for the awards were productions that premiered between Sept. 1, 2022 and Dec. 31, 2023 and they were selected as nominees by members of the guild. The Casting Directors’ Guild represents casting directors in the film, television, theater and commercials industries in the U.K. and Ireland.

Its awards celebrate “the incredible work achieved by casting teams across film, television, theater and commercials,” in partnership with global casting platform Spotlight.

“Casting directors are often the unsung storytellers of the industry. Their vision and skills that help orchestrate an ensemble of characters bring a script to life in every medium,...

Barbie, Saltburn and The Banshees of Inisherin are among the nominees at the UK’s sixth CDG Casting Awards.

Lucy Bevan, Olivia Grant (associate), Lucy Downes (assistant) are nominated in Best Casting in a Film for Barbie, with Kharmel Cochrane (Saltburn), Louise Kiley (Banshees of Inisherin), Kahleen Crawford, Carla Morris & Eliza Heslop (All of Us Strangers) and Jessie Frost (Triangle of Sadness) providing the competition.

In the Best Casting in a TV Drama Series category, Nina Gold is nominated three times, for Andor and Slow Horses Seasons 2 and 3, competing against Shaheen Baig, Jonny Boutwood and Carolyn McLeod for Boiling Point and Robert Sterne and Kate Bone for The Crown.

In the TV Comedy category, Heather Basten, casting execs for Dreaming Whilst Black, Extraordinary, Motherland, Sex Education Season 4 and Ted Lasso Season 3 are up for awards. In the Limited or Single Series race are casting execs from A Small Light, Black Mirror Season 6, Somewhere Boy,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day is we have for you today movie is the 2018 dark comedy Deany Bean Is Dead! You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by Mikael Kreuzriegler from a screenplay by Allison Marie Volk, Deany Bean Is Dead has the following synopsis: A down-on-her-luck woman tries to win back her ex-boyfriend at his engagement party without revealing that her recently strangled boss is in the trunk of her car.

Volk stars in the film alongside Wendy Wilkins, Paulina Bugembe, Paul Tigue, Kaitlin Huwe, Brett Chapin, Jennifer Champion, Sarah Siadat, Christopher Glenn Cannon, Melanie Leanne Miller, Nicholas Thurkettle,...

Stars: Allison Marie Volk, Christopher Glenn Cannon, Colin Taylor Martin, Sarah Sidak, Wendy Wilkins, Paulina Bugembe, Melanie Leanne Miller, Paul Tigue, Kaitlin Huwe, Brett Chapin, Jennifer Champion, Nicholas Thurkettle | Written by Allison Marie Volk | Directed by Mikael Kreuzriegler

Deany Bean is Dead kicks off with our protagonist Deany (Allison Marie Volk) sleeping in a car, staking out a house while a murder podcast plays. It is encouraging the listener to murder their enemies by repeatedly pointing out how brilliant it would feel. It is quite odd and unbelievable. I found myself asking the question… if I do not have any enemies, does that mean I lived a boring life?

The podcast is foreshadowing the film, but it is doing it in a clunky way that does not quite work. It acts as a form of Dexter-style narration, but it does not quite work. It is not a bad idea as a convention,...