Lifetime Achievement Award

Ros Hubbard

Casting directors cannot work without Spotlight. It’s the reason we can reach all corners of the world. There are constant innovations that allow us to connect with you, the actors. I see many of my once baby actors out there in the crowd tonight; and it’s so great to see you all here.”

Ros Hubbard, Recipient of the Spotlight Casting Award 2018.

Ros Hubbard is a world-renowned Irish Casting Director, who together with her husband John founded and has run Hubbard Casting since 1976. Born in Dublin she has worked and lived in London for almost forty years. Ros has extensively cast for Hollywood as well as the UK and Irish film and TV industry. Together they have cast films such as The Commitments, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, Evita, Angela’s Ashes, The Mummy, The Bourne Trilogy and The Da Vinci Code, working closely with Hollywood directors such as Peter Jackson, Paul Greengrass, Sir Alan Parker and Ron Howard. In 2014 she was inducted into the American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Ros Hubbard receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award

A member of the Irish Film and Television Academy branch in London, Ros is hugely active in the Irish industry and regularly presents Acting & Casting Masterclasses at the prestigious Galway Film Fleadh. Recent Irish projects she has cast include Niall Heery’s Gold, Ian Fitzgibbon’s Death of a Superhero and Gary Shore’s Dracula Untold. Ros and John’s children, Dan and Amy, have also followed them into the business and are hugely accomplished casting directors in their own right. Amy’s recent work includes The Hobbit, Albert Nobbs and The Arbor. Dan has recently completed All is By My Side, the Jimi Hendrix story filmed in Dublin and Captain Philips for Paul Greengrass..

“We’re delighted that IFTA has recognised the work of casting directors. It’s absolutely essential that the efforts of casting directors are celebrated by our industry, which is why Spotlight is so proud to be sponsoring this award. We hope that this will set the standard for all other major awards ceremonies to acknowledge the skills of casting professionals as well.”

Áine Moriarty, Chief Executive of IFTA