Laura Adler, a former Casting Society administrator and casting director, died on Thursday in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 65 years old. For 16 years, Adler worked as a casting director,

She started out with Marion Dougherty, found actors for ‘What's Up, Doc?’ and ‘The Exorcist’ at Warner Bros. and was a high-ranking exec at Columbia Pictures.

The actress and singer opened up about how changing her last name "changed the trajectory of my whole career"

Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part "Wicked" movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The casting directors helped pick who made it to Oz."Our job is to ...

The casting director behind "JFK," "Natural Born Killers," and "The Rock" talks about her powerful new documentary, which follows her husband's Alzheimer's battle, and why she's happy the Academy is finally recognizing what casting directors do. “I ...

I think sometimes people think that we have more responsibility and power than we actually have,” Cochrane says. “We’re not the kind of people who sit in rooms and say no or yes.” But she also takes exception to the idea that a consideration of Maisler’s work on Sinners shouldn’t include Michael B.

This year's class of Oscar nominees has been announced. Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” led all films Thursday with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.

The Oscars - officially called the Academy Awards - celebrate the best films from the last 12 months. This year will be the 98th Oscars ceremony and it will take place on 15 March. The full list of nominations,