How Did Agencies Place In Oscars Race? Endeavor #1, UTA #2, CAA #3

the-oscars-logo.JPGLet's do a count of the Academy Award nominees by looking at the Hollywood talent agency ads in Variety today and breaking them down into the following major categories: Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Feature Documentary, and Foreign Film. (FYI, if someone received multiple nominations, those counted as multiple nominations for the agency. For example, the Coens got six nominations between them, so that counted as six nominations for UTA.) So what's the score? Endeavor had 12, United Talent Agency 11, Creative Artists Agency 10, The Gersh Agency 6, William Morris Agency 5, and International Creative Management 4. This means CAA slid to third place this year, after coming in second to Endeavor the previous two years. And UTA picked up steam. "CAA has 350 agents. Endeavor and UTA are 1/4 of their size. Bryan Lourd must be in a shvitz," an insider wisecracked.

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8 Comments »

  1. Quality over Quantity! Congratulations Endeavor.

    Comment by Dan Kan — February 22, 2008 @ 3:10 pm

  2. The Gersh Agency beat both ICM and WMA with 6 noms…certainly noteworthy.

    Comment by Jimmy — February 22, 2008 @ 3:29 pm

  3. Does that insider not know what “schvitz” means?

    Comment by tf — February 22, 2008 @ 4:15 pm

  4. CAA does not have 350 FEATURE agents. And I’m only pointing that out because they rep me.

    Comment by Andy Reaser — February 22, 2008 @ 4:25 pm

  5. Go UTA!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by UTA Rocks! — February 22, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

  6. well with the coens accounting for over %50 of the uta total i don’t think caa has anything to be concerned about. and if they’ve got a better spread (meaning their 10 noms represent more people), then they’re probably making more money of their talent than uta.

    Comment by christopher — February 22, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

  7. It’s certainly notable that Gersh ranked so high. Rock on with your bad selves! A boutique agency with a fraction of UTA or Endeavor’s number of agents, but quality of talent wins out this time. Nice to see.

    Comment by ajw11 — February 23, 2008 @ 9:58 am

  8. Please advise which agency had who. Thank you

    Comment by Anonymous — February 25, 2008 @ 8:28 am

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