Oscar’s Cash Value; Where Are The Globes Parties?; Hello Dolly De Leon; James Corden In ‘The Whale’! – Notes On The Season
deadline.comA column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit In the waning days of 2022 we are taking one last deep breath before the insanity begins and the dispensing of actual awards shifts into high gear as 2023 begins.
Right off the bat on January 5 the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala returns for the first time in three years to take place in that massive PS Convention Center with all those bejewelled and tuxedoed desert rats in attendance to get a glimpse of Cate Blanchett or Brendan Fraser or Viola Davis trying to manage to hold on to that massive trophy PSIFF hands out while giving a thank you speech that might serve as an audition tape for the multitude of ceremonies to follow in the first two and a half months of the new year. A DIZZYING ARRAY OF AWARDS GALAS Then in fast succession we get the return of the Golden Globes on January 10, a Tuesday (say what? ) as the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association, hoping for a fresh restart, celebrates their 80th annual awards fest on what may – or may not – be their last go round with NBC which agreed to host the 2023 broadcast after cancelling it last year, but with ratings and star turnout closely watched to determine if the option will be picked up beyond this date.
It will be followed in close succession by the AFI Awards Luncheon on January 13, and the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday January 15 (although the Critics Choice Association has really been warming up with fancy separate awards “Celebrations” honoring Black, Latino, and Asian Pacific Cinema and Television as well as a NYC gala spotlighting the year’s best documentaries).
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