The Academy Award for Best Casting is the first new category to be added the Oscars in more than two decades. | Emma McIntyre/WireImage On Sunday night, the Academy Awards will confer their first trophy to a casting director. The award for Best Casting is the first new category to be added to the Oscars in 24 years — and it’s doing its part to remedy the Oscars’s abysmal record on gender. Since the Academy Awards began in 1929, 82.2 percent of winners have been men, with women making up just 17.8 percent. Time hasn’t helped even the split out as much as you might think. Of this year’s...

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