Keeping pace with Hollywoods perpetual awards horserace.
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For Angelenos, it has been two weeks of loss and upheaval.
Communities destroyed, dozens of lives lost, countless more upended.
The Oscar nominations, originally scheduled for January 17, have been pushed back twice already.
(Theyre currently set to take place on Thursday, January 23.)
This years nominee luncheon, as well asthe accompanying class photo, has been canceled.
If they do, how should they address the tragedy in their own backyard?
On Instagram, Jean Smart called forcanceling the Oscarsand donating the revenue they would have garnered to firefighters.
InTHR, Steven Zeitchik suggested nomineesbring someone affected by the firesas their plus-one.
Jeff Sneider proposedturning the telecast into a charity telethon.
Personally, though, Im gonna bow out of all that this year.
I get enough performative self-flagellation from the Democrats, you know?
In the meantime, our friends at the Cut have put togethera helpful guide to helping wildfire victims.
My colleagueJoe Reidhas also chosen toshepherd one particular GoFundMe to completion.
(EvenSeptember 5s biggest booster,THRs Scott Feinberg, had dropped the filmout of his top ten.)
Are Academy voters highbrow enough to save a groundbreaking film the guilds essentially passed over?
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Guild voters think its something to behold, and its not over now, baby gold.
Since we cant, he may be fated to be the odd man out.
Instead it was the reverse, as the British academy blankedQueerentirely.
Now the influence runs in the other direction.
Like his former co-star Kieran Culkin, Strong is finding that hisSuccessionaccolades carry over to the Oscar race.
His gravel-voiced Roy Cohn was recognized alongside Stan at BAFTA and has now been nominated by every major precursor.
(Remember: They are one.)
That might require elbowing aside someone like Isabella Rossellini … unless this race has room forthreecelebrity daughters?
