Three Films. Eight Golden Globe Nominations. That Is Not Luck. That Is Taste Operating at Scale.

Jennifer Venditti is nominated for the first-ever Best Casting Oscar for Marty Supreme. She also cast Smashing Machine and Bugonia this year. Three films. Eight Golden Globe nominations between them. That is not luck. That is taste operating at scale.

Venditti started in fashion — Versace, Yohji Yamamoto, W Magazine — before founding JV8INC in New York. The Euphoria casting that redefined a generation of young talent? Hers. The instinct to find unknowns and make them feel inevitable? Also hers.

The Academy resisted this category for decades. Venditti is proof of why that never made sense.