The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences is suspending the Oscar nominations and increasing their voting interval, as 5 main wildfires throughout Southern California have compelled greater than 100,00 residents — together with academy members — to evacuate.
In a letter to members reviewed Wednesday by Entertainment Weekly, the academy confirmed that the voting interval had been prolonged from Sunday to Tuesday. It moreover postponed the standard announcement from Friday, Jan. 17, to the next Tuesday.
“We want to offer our deepest condolences to those who have been impacted by the devastating fires across Southern California,” they wrote, per EW. “So many of our members and industry colleagues live and work in the Los Angeles area, and we are thinking of you.”
The Oscars weren’t alone in altering or suspending their upcoming occasions: The SAG Awards changed a standard nominations announcement scheduled for Thursday with a digital press launch; the Critics Selection Awards postponed Sunday’s ceremony to Jan. 26.
The academy introduced their modifications mere hours after voting started, as residents from the Pacific Coast inland to Pasadena had been positioned below evacuation orders. The fires have reportedly burned down greater than 27,000 acres and killed at the very least 5 folks.
Manufacturing has reportedly halted on quite a few tv reveals like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Hacks,” whose Golden Globe-winning star, Jean Good, urged upcoming awards reveals to cancel their telecasts solely — and donate the would-be earnings to victims of the fires.
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Photos
The burgeoning checklist of actors affected by these fires, in the meantime, consists of Mandy Moore, Mark Hamill, Anna Faris, Jamie Lee Curtis and Steve Guttenberg, who made headlines after serving to first responders evacuate his neighborhood within the Pacific Palisades.
Tracy Droz Tragos, who reportedly helped seize California’s Camp Fireplace in 2018 for Ron Howard’s Nationwide Geographic documentary “Rebuilding Paradise” (2020), advised The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday that she misplaced her Palisades dwelling to the continued blaze.
Solely two of the foremost fires in Los Angeles County are slowly being contained, per Cal Fireplace. The Palisades Fireplace continues to burn with abandon, in the meantime, and has already destroyed greater than 1,000 constructions to develop into probably the most ruinous fireplace in Los Angeles historical past.
We Want Your Help
Already contributed? Log in to cover these messages.
Traci Park, a metropolis councilwoman, advised The New York Instances, “This is going to be devastating, a devastating loss, for all of Los Angeles.”
