“With ALL due respect during Hollywood’s season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider NOT televising them and donating the revenue they would have gathered to victims of the fires and the firefighters,” “Hacks” star Jean Smart, a recent Globe winner, wrote on Instagram.
As Los Angeles burns, Hollywood's Oscar season turns into a pledge drive When the Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles last Tuesday, Hollywood’s awards season was in full swing.
But the enormity of the destruction in Southern California has quickly snuffed out all festiveness in the movie industry’s high season of celebration.
The fires have struck at the very heart of a movie industry still trying to stabilize itself after years of pandemic, labor turmoil and technological upheaval.
With so many left without a home by the fires, there’s scant appetite for the usual self-congratulatory parades of the season.
