Cassandra Kulukundis wins first-ever Oscar for Casting Direction in a Paul Thomas Anderson movie

Cassandra Kulukundis won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Casting Direction for her work on the Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another.The action thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, beating out nominees like Gabriel Domingues for the Brazilian movie The Secret Agent.This new category at the Los Angeles ceremony recognizes the creative process of assembling a cast for the first time in over two decades.