The Latest: Academy Award Nominees announced
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Oscar hopefuls will find out whether they’ve made the cut when actors Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announce the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards. While the announcement typically kicks off a barrage of award-show pageantry culminating in the Oscars themselves, this year’s programming will be muted because of the devastating fires across Southern California.
Here's the latest:. President Trump vows to help ‘troubled’ Hollywood. President Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.”.
Trump announced on his social media site last week that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the moviemaking town. “It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!” he wrote on Truth Social. “I’m old enough to have touched some years of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and I’ve seen its slow deterioration since. Today, we are in pretty bad shape,” Voight said. “Very few films are made here now, but we are fortunate to have an incoming President, who wants to restore Hollywood to its former glory, and with his help, I feel we can get done.”.
It’s unclear what exactly the three will be doing in this effort to bring productions back to the U.S. ▶ Read more about Trump’s envoys to Hollywood. Award show dates. Hollywood’s awards season all but came to a halt as the wildfires disrupted life and work in the Los Angeles area. There were near-daily updates from the Hollywood guilds and organizations that put on awards shows as the industry navigates the crisis and fallout.
