Nominees and Lifetime Achievement Honorees Announced for 2016 TMA Heller Awards

The Talent Managers Association (TMA) is proud to announce this year's Lifetime Achievement honor in Management will be given to Chuck Binder, who founded Binder & Associates in 1978. The TMA recently announced the agent and casting director nominees for the 14th Annual Heller Awards, along with two other Lifetime Achievement honorees: legendary agent Jack Gilardi (ICM Partners) and casting director Craig Fincannon (Fincannon and Associates).

Chuck Binder's Binder & Associates has stayed firmly implanted in Hollywood for the last 35 years. He hit the ball out of the park with his first client, Jamie Lee Curtis, and with his knack for discovering new talent and his ability to re-imagine and co-create careers of successful acting talent, he has continued his winning streak. In the 1980's Binder signed future stars such as Daryl Hannah, Sharon Stone, Connie Sellecca, and Brooke Shields. He is proud to maintain long term relationships throughout the careers of many of his clientS. Binder has represented Bruce Greenwood since 1984, and Sharon Stone since 1987. Binder & Associates has managed such notables as Jon Lovitz, Robert Wagner, Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Jaqueline Bisset, and Steve Guttenberg, among others.

In the 1990's, Binder produced numerous studio features such as "The Quick and the Dead" at Tristar Pictures, "The Specialist" and "Diabolique;" both for Warner Bros., "Gloria" at Columbia Pictures, and "The Last Dance" at Disney/Touchstone, to name a few. His television credits include: "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" at HBO, "Can't Hurry Love," and "Family Law;" both at CBS.

The organization will host this year's event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM.

To purchase tickets for the 14th Annual Heller Awards, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-tma-2016-heller-awards-tickets-27969511562

Founded by Seymour Heller in 1954 as the Conference of Personal Managers, the TMA is a non-pro?t, self-regulating organization that promotes the highest ethical business standards of professional integrity and behavior in the practice of talent management. Membership in the organization signi?es a manager is a skilled professional within the industry of talent, artist, literary or music management, and subscribes to the established TMA Code of Ethics.

Learn more about the Talent Managers Association at www.talentmanagers.org

The nominees for this year's agent and casting director awards are:

ADULT THEATRICAL AGENT

Lorrie Bartlett, ICM Partners

Jay Schachter, Abrams Artists Agency

Mike Baldridge, Momentum Talent and Literary Agency

Robert Haas, Innovative Artists

Mike Eisenstadt, Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier & Hinojosa Agency (AEFH)

Brett Norensberg, The Gersh Agency

YOUTH THEATRICAL AGENT

Meredith Fine, Coast to Coast Talent Agency

Emily Urbani, Osbrink Talent Agency

Domina Holbeck, Abrams Artists Agency

Julie Fulop, AKA Talent Agency

Barbara Coleman, Innovative Artists

Milton Pere, Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier & Hinojosa Agency (AEFH)

ADULT COMMERCIAL AGENT

Stephen DeCayette, Prestige Talent Agency

Hugh Leon, Coast to Coast Talent Agency

Nancy Luciano, Luciano Reeves Talent

David Ziff, Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty (CESD)

Samantha J. Daniels, Mavrick Artists Agency

Neil Kreppel, Commercial Talent

YOUTH COMMERCIAL AGENT

Carol Lynn Sher, Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty (CESD)

Jeremy Apody, Abrams Artists Agency

Candace Stewart, Prestige Talent Agency

Sydel Lisi, Coast to Coast Talent Agency

Dawn Osbrink, Osbrink Talent Agency

Bonnie Shumofsky, Abrams Artists Agency

Philip Marcus, Clear Talent Group

VOICE OVER AGENT

Melissa Berger-Brennan, Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty (CESD)

Portia Scott, Coast to Coast Talent Agency

Maureen Rose, Osbrink Talent Agency

Brittany Balbo, UTA

Izzy Arias, UTA

Wes Stevens, VOX, Inc.

REGIONAL AGENT

Joy Pervis, J Pervis Talent Agency

Gail Houghton, Houghton Talent

Ashley Pomes Wilkinson, Clear Talent Group South

Angie Moncrief, Action Talent

FEATURE CASTING DIRECTOR

Kim Coleman, Kim Coleman Casting

Francine Maisler, Francine Maisler & Associates

Aisha Coley, Aisha Coley Casting

April Webster, April Webster & Associates

Mary Vernieu, Betty Mae Casting

Kimberly Hardin, Kim Hardin Casting

TV CASTING DIRECTOR

Krisha Bullock/Jamie Snow, Bullock & Snow Casting

SuzAnne Goddard-Smythe, SuzAnne Goddard-Smythe Casting

Allison Jones, Allison Jones Casting

Eyde Belasco, Eyde Belasco Casting

Jennifer Cooper, Jennifer Cooper Casting

Leah Daniels-Butler, Leah Daniels-Butler Casting

COMMERCIAL CASTING DIRECTOR

Dan Bell, Dan Bell Casting

Ross Lacy, Ross Lacy Casting

Michael Sanford, Sanford Casting

Francene Selkirk, Shooting from the Hip Casting

Anissa Williams, Anissa Williams Casting

Liz Lewis, Liz Lewis Casting Partners

VOICE OVER CASTING DIRECTOR

Ivy Isenberg, Isenberg Casting

Jamie Sparer Roberts, Walt Disney Studios

Linda Lamontagne, Linda Lamontagne Casting

Julie Ashton, Julie Ashton Casting

Natalie Lyon and Kevin Reher, Pixar Animation Studios

REGIONAL CASTING DIRECTOR

Annette Stillwell, Stillwell Casting

Jen Kelley, Big Picture Casting

Rhavynn Drummer, Tyler Perry Studios Casting

Elizabeth Coulon, Coulon Casting

Meagan Lewis, RPM Casting

ASSOCIATE CASTING DIRECTOR

Gina Gallego

Jason B. Stamey

Ally Bader

Jeremy Gordon

Julie Gale

Monica Kelly