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The Casting Society of America is thinking globally. The group is marking its 40th year with a name change that reflects the expansion of its ranks to include casting professionals living and working around the world.

Also Read: Maria Bakalova on Why That Rudy Giuliani Scene Still Makes Her NervousTelevision winners included “The Great,” “Euphoria,” “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Succession” and “Normal People.”Awards for theater, which was closed for most of 2020, included the Broadway shows “Slave Play,” “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” and “A Soldier’s Play.”The show also included tributes to the legendary casting directors Lynn Stalmaster and Mike Fenton, both of whom died over the last five months.Other

Mike Fenton, the influential casting director who found actors for such landmark films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather: Part II, E.T. — The Extraterrestrial and the three Back to the Futuremovies, has died.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorColleagues of legendary casting director Mike Fenton remembered the industry veteran as a tireless champion of actors who had a keen eye for talent, a great sense of humor and a full life outside of work with a wide circle of friends.Fenton, who died Dec. 30 at the age of 85, had nearly 300 casting credits to his name and helped launch the careers of such stars as Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Drew Barrymore and Robert Downey Jr.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorMike Fenton, the legendary casting director who worked on the “Back to the Future” franchise, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and scores of other classic movies and TV shows, has died.

Mike Fenton, casting director on well over 100 films and TV shows including classics such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Godfather: Part 2, The Goonies, E.T., Blade Runner, Back to the Future and Chaplin has died. He was 85. Fenton also co-founded what became the Casting Society of America in 1982.

according to his son, Mick.Born in 1935 in Los Angeles as Ronald Michael Fenton, Fenton joined Paramount as a casting director in 1963 after working as an agent at the Ashley-Steiner Agency and, before then, in the mailroom of the Music Corporation of America.