Cassandra Kulukundis has won the first ever Oscar for casting for her work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Chase Infiniti, one of the film’s stars, paid tribute to Kulukundis on stage before she was awarded.
Kulukundis began her career as an intern on Anderson’s debut, Hard Eight, before casting almost all his films since 1999’s Magnolia, including There Will Be Blood and Inherent Vice. Other credits include Ghost World, A Late Quartet, Her and last year’s Oscar heavyweight The Brutalist.
