III Russian Casting-Directors Guild Puzzle Award 2024
The ceremony was held with the support of
the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and PREMIER, the Award’s General Partner.
Special Partners of the Award
KIT Film Studio and
START Group of Companies
  • Host of the Ceremony
Alexey Nuzhny
("The Bremen Town Musicians", "Couple from the Future",
"Fire", "I Am Losing Weight")
Margarita Lenskih
Russian Casting-directors Guild
Executive Producer of the Award
Director
President
III Russian Casting-Directors Guild Puzzle Award 2024

Categories

Best Acting Debut

Best Actor

Best Actress

Breakthrough Talent (Non-Professional Actor)

Special Award

Best Children’s Casting

Best Casting in a Second or Third Season

Best Casting in a Yakut Feature Film

Best Casting in a Television Series

Best Casting in a Feature Film

PREMIER New Face

WINNERS

WINNER

Slava Kopeykin

Best Acting Debut

«The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt»

All nominees

WINNER

Konstantin Plotnikov

Best Actor


«King and Jester»

All nominees

WINNER

Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk

Best Actress


«Ranevskaya»

All nominees

WINNER

Alla Sigalova

Breakthrough Talent (Non-Professional Actor)

«Balet»

All nominees

WINNER

Daniil Vorobyov



Special Award

«Osminog»

All nominees

WINNER

Svetlana Yershova

Greta Barseghyan

Best Children’s Casting


«Manyunya: The Fun Continues»

All nominees

WINNER

Evgeny Feoktistov

Best Casting in a Second or Third Season


«Мир! Дружба! Жвачка!» -3

All nominees

WINNER

Stepan Burnashev

Best Casting in a Yakut Feature Film



«Et»

All nominees

WINNER

Dmitry Davydov

Best Casting in a Yakut Feature Film


«Et»

All nominees

WINNER

Anastasia Bagirova

Best Casting in a

Television Series


«The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt»

All nominees

WINNER

Anzhela Timerkhanova

Best Casting in a

Feature Film



«Bullfinch»

All nominees

WINNER

Vlad Konoplev

PREMIER New Face




«Non-Modeling Agency»

All nominees
The Award winners were selected by casting directors from across the Russian film industry through a confidential vote.
The voting involved more than
180
professionals
Winner in the Category
«PREMIER
New Face»
selected through a
public vote.
Award Media Partners
  1. WINNER:
Slava Kopeykin – "The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt"
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Casting Director: Anastasia Bagirova
Director: Sergey Ursulyak, Casting Director: Svetlana Zhigalkina
2. Maria Zolotukhina – "The Righteous"
Director: Dmitry Dyachenko, Casting Director: Tatyana Khrechkova
3. Vsevolod Volodin – "Rabies"
Director: Daniil Kolotov
4. Dmitry Khasanov – "Fatality"
Director: Boris Khlebnikov, Casting Directors: Vladimir Golov, Anzhela Timerkhanova
5. Oleg Savostyuk – "The Bullfinch"
Director: Anastasia Borisova, Casting Director: Anzhela Timerkhanova
6. Daria Kharchenko – "Crash Test"
  1. WINNER:
Konstantin Plotnikov – "King and Jester"
Director: Rustam Mosafir, Casting Directors: Ekaterina Isakova, Irina Ugolnikova
Director: Pyotr Fyodorov, Casting Director: Vasilisa Vanyukova
2. Pyotr Fyodorov – "Last Quest"
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Casting Director: Anastasia Bagirova
3. Anton Vasiliev – "The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt"
Director: Mikhail Mistetsky, Casting Director: Anastasia Bagirova
4. Eldar Kalimulin – "The Year I Was Born"
Director: Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Casting Directors: Asya Smekalova, Nozanin Abdulvasieva, Maria Gogotova
5. Igor Gordin – "Balet"
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Casting Director: Anna Selivanova
6. Roman Evdokimov – "Actresses"
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Casting Director: Anastasia Bagirova
7. Ruzil Minekaev – "The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt"
  1. WINNER:
Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk – "Ranevskaya"
Director: Dmitry Petrun, Casting Directors: Tatyana Konysheva, Irina Voron, Valentina Volzhenskaya
Director: Zhanna Kadnikova, Casting Director: Irina Malysheva
2. Maria Smolnikova – "Cafe Cuba"
Director: Pyotr Fyodorov, Casting Director: Vasilisa Vanyukova
3. Aleksandra Serzina – "Last Quest"
Director: Maria Shulgina, Casting Director: Elena Mikhaylova
4. Lyubov Aksyonova – "Kidney 2"
Director: Maksim Sveshnikov, Casting Director: Maria Galaktionova
5. Evgeniya Gromova – "The Volunteer’s Playlist"
Director: Anton Fyodorov, Casting Director: Evgeny Feoktistov
6. Ksenia Katalymova – "Peace! Friendship! Chewing Gum!" – Season 3
  1. WINNER:
Alla Sigalova – "Balet"
Director: Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Casting Directors: Asya Smekalova, Nozanin Abdulvasieva, Maria Gogotova
Director: Baibulat Batulla, Casting Director: Sofya Grishutina
2. Rabit Batulla – "Take and Remember"
  1. WINNER:
Daniil Vorobyov – "Osminog"
  1. WINNER:
Svetlana Ershova, Greta Barsegyan – "Manyunya: The Fun Continues"
Director: Arman Marutyan, Casting Directors: Svetlana Ershova, Greta Barsegyan
Director: Aleksandr Zhigalkin, Casting Director: Elena Kolesnikova
2. "Daddy’s Daughters: The New Series"
Director: Elina Suni, Casting Directors: Alla Yeremycheva, Nataliya Torlakyan
3. "Chizhik-Pyzhik coming back"
Directors: Aleksandr Potapov, Ruslan Danilevich, Casting Director: Vika May
4. "Youth"
Director: Ivan Kapitonov, Casting Director: Yulia Babanova
5. "Tin Head"
  1. Победитель:
Evgeny Feoktistov – "Peace! Friendship! Chewing Gum!" – Season 3
Director: Anton Fyodorov, Casting Director: Evgeny Feoktistov
Director: Artyom Aksenenko, Casting Director: Maria Maksimova
2. "Mediator" – Season 3
Director: Maria Shulgina, Casting Director: Elena Mikhaylova
3. "Kidney 2"
Director: Ilya Silaev, Casting Director: Yulia Drobysheva
4. "Sisters – Season 2"
Directors: Ksenia Voronina, Mikhail Rakhlin, Casting Director: Evgeny Feoktistov
5. "Ivanko – Season 2"
  1. WINNER:
Stepan Burnashev – "Et"
Directors: Stepan Burnashev, Dmitry Davydov
Directors: Dmitry Davydov
2. "Eder Saas"
Director: Aleksandr Lukin
3. "White Angel of the Tundra"
Director: Illarion Yakovlev
4. "Almost Like Everyone Else"
Director: Aleksey Lukanev, Casting Director: Alla Yeremycheva
5. "The Stranger"
Director: Nikita Novgorodov
6. «Haphaan».
Director: Elena Everstova
7. "Kharchy. Iestebil"
  1. WINNER:
Dmitry Davydov – "Et"
Directors: Stepan Burnashev, Dmitry Davydov
Directors: Dmitry Davydov
2. "Eder Saas"
Director: Aleksandr Lukin
3. "White Angel of the Tundra"
Director: Illarion Yakovlev
4. "Almost Like Everyone Else"
Director: Aleksey Lukanev, Casting Director: Alla Yeremycheva
5. "The Stranger"
Director: Nikita Novgorodov
6. «Haphaan».
Director: Elena Everstova
7. "Kharchy. Iestebil"
  1. WINNER:
"The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt"
Director: Zhora Kryzhovnikov, Casting Director: Anastasia Bagirova
Director: Evgeny Sangadzhiev, Casting Directors: Asya Smekalova, Nozanin Abdulvasieva, Maria Gogotova
2. "Balet"
Director: Pyotr Fyodorov, Casting Director: Vasilisa Vanyukova
3. "Last Quest"
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Casting Director: Anna Selivanova
4. "Actresses"
Director: Maria Agranovich, Casting Director: Maria Gogotova
5. "Kill Rita"
Director: Alyona Rayner, Casting Director: Tatyana Konysheva
6. "The Choir"
Director: Zhanna Kadnikova, Casting Director: Irina Malysheva
7. "Cafe Cuba"
  1. WINNER:
"The Bullfinch"
Director: Boris Khlebnikov, Casting Directors: Vladimir Golov, Anzhela Timerkhanova
Director: Aleksandr Veledinsky, Casting Director: Olga Gilyova
2. '1993'.
Director: Dmitry Dyachenko, Casting Director: Tatyana Khrechkova
3. "Rabies"
Director: Igor Voloshin, Casting Director: Irina Lavrentyeva
4. "Lord of the Wind"
Director: Aleksandr Voytinsky, Casting Directors: Alla Petelina, Ekaterina Lobanova
5. "The Wish of the Fairy Fish"
Director: Mikhail Mistetsky, Casting Director: Anastasia Bagirova
6. "The Year I Was Born"
Director: Sergey Ilyin, Casting Director: Yulia Babanova
7. "Matthew Passion"
  1. WINNER:
Vlad Konoplev
"Non-Modeling Agency"
"Sasha Objects!"
2. Alikhan Nurzhauov
"Kill Rita"
3. Alexander Mizev
"Non-Modeling Agency"
4. Angelina Pakhomova
"The Lower Depths"
5. Danil Tyabin
"Sasha Objects!"
6. Anna Potebnia
"Peace! Friendship! Bubblegum!"
7. Alexandra Khromova
"Cerberus"
8. Lev Zulkarnaev
"Alice's Dreams"
9. Alina Gvasilia
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