The Oscar nominations, delayed two days. Recordings of series and programs in Los Angeles, stopped. The Critics Choice gala, postponed from January 12 to 26. in Hollywood, the time when awards season is in full swing. But this 2025 is different. The fire spreads through the Californian megalopolis, and as it ravages the city, it has left five dead, devastated almost 11,000 hectares and forced the evacuation of almost 100,000 people, in addition to torpedoing its economic and labor engine.
One of the last to move has been the United States Film Academy. The Oscars will be awarded on March 3, but, given the magnitude of the catastrophe, they have decided to delay their nominations for the moment, from January 17 to Sunday the 19th, thus leaving two more days to vote for the academics (many live in the city , and some have seen their house destroyed). The constant parade of events to achieve the candidacy these days, which moves numerous industry workers, has also had to be cancelled.de The werewolf, Back in action (the return of Cameron Diaz to the cinema) and Unstoppable. The emblematic Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, visited daily by thousands of tourists and with the city’s most iconic cinemas, has come to be on yellow evacuation alert due to the fire in the Hollywood mountains.
The incident, , is a new attack for film and television workers in California, who have dealt since 2020 with the closure of the industry due to covid and . Already in 2024, the days of filming of films and series in the city, according to data from the publication, and numerous workers from.
I took this last night from our beautiful little home in the Palisades. Now all the fire alarms are going off at once remotely.
It tests your soul, losing everything at once, I must say.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods)
Celebrities such as James Woods, Billy Crystal, Adam Brody, Leighton Meester, Anna Faris, Cary Elwes, Mandy Moore, Paris Hilton and Mark Hamill have lost their homes, but the specialized magazine estimates that hundreds of members of the auxiliary teams have also lost their homes. . They have also been temporarily left without work.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Fire Department asked that filming permits be canceled for several areas of the city, and they also stopped filming of shows such as The Price is Right, After Midnight y Jimmy Kimmel Live!as well as those from series such as Grey’s Anatomy, , , The Pitt, All American, The Rookie, Happy Place, Loot, Ted, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, The Neighborhood, Poppa’s House y Doctor Oddisey. As in the strike and in the covid, television, due to its timing so close to broadcast, is the first to suffer the onslaught. At the moment, they do not have a return to work date.
