Awards Madness On Steroids; Oliver Stone Gets ‘Wicked’; Marianne Jean-Baptiste Tells The Hard Truth About Oscar – Notes On The Season

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A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. Even as people are drifting back slowly from the holiday break, and Hanukkah actually just celebrated its eighth and final night, the awards season is taking no prisoners as the whole thing has just crash-landed on us whether we like it or not.

Yes, it is only the third day of January, but no rest for the weary. Mikey Madison, Kieran Culkin, Denis Villeneuve, Colman Domingo, Ariana Grande, Ralph Fiennes and the Conclave cast, Nicole Kidman, Adrien Brody, Angelina Jolie, Timothée Chalamet, and the cast of Emilia Pérez are headed as we speak down the 10 Freeway to Palm Springs, where they will all give acceptance speeches on that massive Convention Center stage Friday night at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala.

They might serve as warmups for some as they jet back to L.A. for Sunday’s Golden Globes Awards, where every single one of them is also up for an award and hoping to make yet another acceptance.

In between there will be party ops at Paramount and Amazon/Vanity Fair, private dinners, a brunch for Indie Spirit Award nominees and more, plus Globes afterparties thrown by Netflix, Universal and UTA and the Globes themselves. NO TIME TO SLOW DOWN Since they are available, many of them also will be squeezing in some late-in-the-game Q&As over the course of the weekend, whether in the desert or around Hollywood, hoping to get the attention of those Oscar voters who are trying frantically to see as much as they can before their five-day voting period starts.