Stephen King Calls For Oscars Cancelation Amid Wildfires: “No Glitz With L.A. On Fire”
deadline.comWith more than 100,000 impacted by the recent Southern California wildfires, many are struggling to get in the awards season spirit.
After the 97th Academy Awards previously delayed nominations and extended voting amid the disaster, Stephen King suggested the event should be canceled altogether this year. “Not voting in the Oscars this year.
IMHO they should cancel them. No glitz with Los Angeles on fire,” the author wrote on Bluesky. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences shared this week that nominations will be announced on Thursday, Jan.
23 at 5:30am PT, with the voting period extended to January 17 at 5pm PT. Jean Smart previously urged networks that broadcast awards shows to consider “donating the revenue they would have garnered to victims of the fires and the firefighters.” Meanwhile, stars like Paris Hilton, Milo Ventimiglia, Adam Brody, Leighton Meester and Billy Crystal have lost their homes in the wildfires, which broke out in the Pacific Palisades, Eaton Canyon, Malibu, the Hollywood Hills and other areas around Los Angeles County amid a “life-threatening and destructive” windstorm that picked up last week.
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