re: New Oscar category coming to next year's Academy Awards - Best Casting

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Whatever woke concerns notwithstanding, this is massively overdue.

IMO, casting is VASTLY more relevant than "how good is the acting?", as my main contention has always been that essentially it's just table stakes to be a good actor in major films.

The shorthand version is: sure, Christopher Walken is a good/great actor. That's literally just irrelevant as to why or why not he wasn't cast as the lead in Cast Away or A River Runs Through It.

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Well, I'm sure the reality of it will be that whoever casts the most diverse group, will win

But really, do you look at a singular role
(Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones),

or do you look at the whole group
(Man from UNCLE- Henry Cavill as Napoleon Solo, Army Hammer as Illya Kuryakin, Alicia Vikander as Gabby, Hugh Grant as Waverly, Elizabeth Debicki as Victoria, etc etc)?

I would say GROUP, using Man From UNCLE as an example. That whole ensemble worked well.

The RAZZY version of this award would go to whoever cast Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor; that had to be the worst casting this century.