Favorite Ensemble Film and Casting Director: Elle Fanning, Ethan Hawke, Eva Victor and More

With the Academy adding a Casting Oscar this year, filmmakers share some of their favorite ensemble films, and shout out impactful casting directors in their careers. From Josh Brolin, Julia Garner and David Jonsson through to Elle Fanning, Ralph Fiennes and Eva Victor, picks range from Knives Out and Magnolia to Set It Off and Tropic Thunder. Interviews by Mia Lee Vicino, Brian Formo, Annie Lyons, Ella Kemp, Jeremiah Battle and Brandon Streussing Edited by Josh Moffatt Camera by Kevin Greenwood and Cody Hanu #AcademyAwards #Oscars #Oscars2026 #MovieAwards #FilmAwards #EnsembleCast #CastingDirector #CastingDirectors #ElleFanning #EthanHawke #JoshBrolin #AldenEhrenreich #RalphFiennes #JuliaGarner #DavidJonsson #AmyMadigan #StellanSkarsgård #ChloéZhao #FavoriteMovies #FilmFavorites #Movie #MovieFan #Movies #Film #FilmCommunity #FilmFan #Films #Letterboxd Watch more from Letterboxd | Supercuts: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5aexARLijfV8_HGD5UfUAnntUVUZa2aW&si=qRZoAVkryQoluLhs Subscribe to Letterboxd on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@LetterboxdHQ Connect: https://facebook.com/letterboxd https://instagram.com/letterboxd https://tiktok.com/@letterboxd https://letterboxd.com/ About Letterboxd: Letterboxd is a global social network for grass-roots film discussion and discovery. Use it as a diary to record and share your opinion about films as you watch them, or just to keep track of films you've seen in the past. Showcase your favorites on your profile page. Rate, review and tag films as you add them. Find and follow your friends to see what they're enjoying. Keep a watchlist of films you'd like to see, and create lists/collections on any given topic. We've been described as "like GoodReads for movies". We have apps for iOS, Android and Apple TV. Paying members get an ad-free experience, personalized all-time and annual stats pages, the option to select and filter by what's available on their favorite streaming services, watchlist notifications, the ability to filter activity streams by entry type and to clone other members' lists, and much more.