Feb 26, 2025
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On a cold night in January, as the Santa Ana winds howled through Los Angeles, a biblical fire rampaged through the mountains and reached all the way to the Pacific. It would destroy half of paradise in just a few hours. No one was thinking about the Oscars.
And yet, it was January, the thick of the annual frenzy that is Oscar season. Millions of dollars had been spent. There had been months of screenings, parties, interviews, and film festivals. The ballot deadline for phase one was just days away.
The fires were so catastrophic that, for a minute there, it looked like the Oscars might not happen at all. Stephen King announced he would not be voting at a time like this. The last thing anyone wanted to do was dig in to the always depressing screener pile foisted upon Oscar voters every year.
But this was Hollywood…
(Read at this link)
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/who-killed-the-oscars