Avy Kaufman
Known For: Production
Gender: Female
Avy Kaufman is an American casting director for film and television. Kaufman is from Atlanta. She relocated to New York City in 1976 to study ballet. Kaufman originally worked in casting for advertising at Foote, Cone & Belding (often print ads) for six years, then transitioned to feature films. Since 1987, she has worked in casting on more than 150 film and television productions. Kaufman has worked with directors including Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Wes Craven. Her casting credits include the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), the romantic drama film Brokeback Mountain (2005), and the crime drama film Public Enemies (2009). Kaufman received the 2005 Hollywood Casting Director of the Year award given by the Hollywood Film Festival. She received a 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for her work on Damages: Season 1 and in 2020 & 2022 for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for Succession: Seasons 2-3. She had earlier been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special for her work on the romance drama television miniseries Empire Falls. Kaufman has been nominated for eighteen Artios Awards and has won three. Description above from the Wikipedia article Avy Kaufman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Co-Producer
Touched with Fire
Casting
Money Monster
Casting
Anesthesia
Casting
Touched with Fire
Casting
How to Be Single
Casting
The Model
Casting
The Family Fang
Casting
A Hologram for the King
Casting
Green Room
Casting
The Promise
Casting
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Casting
Indignation
Casting
Little Men
Casting
Gold
Casting Director
All We Had
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2014
Casting
Wish I Was Here
Casting
Kill the Messenger
Casting
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Casting
Love Is Strange
Casting
The Skeleton Twins
Casting
Before I Disappear
Casting
Red Knot
Casting
Bird People
Casting
Growing Up and Other Lies
Casting
The Salvation
Casting
Revenge of the Green Dragons
Casting
Shelter
Casting
Adult Beginners
Casting
Hoke
Casting
I'm Obsessed With You (But You've Got to Leave Me Alone)
Casting
Last Summer
Executive Producer
Growing Up and Other Lies
2013
Casting
Jimmy P.
Casting
The Counselor
Casting
Carrie
Casting
Europa Report
Casting
Pioneer
Casting
Blood Ties
Casting
Thanks for Sharing
Casting
What Maisie Knew
Casting
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Casting
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Casting
Reaching for the Moon
Casting
Betty and Coretta
Casting
Very Good Girls
Casting
A Birder's Guide to Everything
Casting
Louder Than Words
Casting
Syrup
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Casting
Syriana
Casting
Everything Is Illuminated
Casting
Capote
Casting
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Casting
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Casting
Derailed
Casting
Sometimes in April
Casting
Dear Wendy
Casting
Forty Shades of Blue
Casting
The River King
Casting
Brokeback Mountain
Casting
Manderlay
Casting
Knights of the South Bronx
