Although we are apparently never going to stop talking about this year’s Oscar season, others are already putting plans in place for next year’s Oscar season.The Palm Springs International Film Society has announced that the 34th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival will return Thursday, January 5, 2023 through Monday, January 16, 2023.
The starry Film Awards Gala which serves as a showcase for various Oscar hopefuls will take place on January 5 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with film screenings beginning Friday, January 6 including the Opening Night presentation that evening and will conclude with Best of Fest on January 16.
Palm Springs ShortFest is still scheduled for June 21-27, 2022.The festival notes that the 2022 Festival and Film Awards did not take place as an in-person event this year, nor did the annual awards gala take place in January 2021 due to the pandemic that threw a wrench into everyone’s plans, particularly for those events normally in January like the Critics Choice, Golden Globes, and the aforementioned splashy Palm Springs soiree.
However this year, as winners had already been announced over a course of several weeks, those Film Award honoree selections were at least acknowledged when Entertainment Tonight aired a tribute.
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