Oscars 2025 in jeopardy of being CANCELLED for the first time in 96 years amid catastrophic LA fires
Hollywood’s biggest night, the Oscars, may be canceled for the first time in its 96-year history due to the devastating wildfires raging in Los Angeles.
The show is facing an unprecedented crisis as official Academy Award committees, led by top stars like Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg and Emma Stone, monitor the situation daily.
A secret ‘contingency strategy’ is reportedly being used to cancel the March 3 awards ceremony. American sun.
There is growing concern that going ahead with the glitzy Oscars 2025 ceremony could be seen as tone deaf given the recent devastation.
“The board’s main concern right now is not to appear to be celebrating when many Los Angelenos are dealing with heartbreak and unimaginable loss,” an insider told the publication.
“And certainly, even if the fires were to go out in the next week, the reality is that the city is still hurting and will have to deal with that pain for months to come,” the insider added.
Hollywood’s biggest night, the Oscars, may be canceled for the first time in its 96-year history due to the devastating wildfires raging in Los Angeles
The show is facing an unprecedented crisis as official Academy Award committees, led by A-listers including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg and Emma Stone, monitor the situation daily; Hanks seen with his Oscar in 1994
“So the hierarchy has decided that the focus will be on support and fundraising when the right opportunities arise.”
The insider added that “the very thought of having a waiter, a poorly paid innocent who has lost his home, serving delicate Wagyu burgers and sliced cucumber sandwiches to multi-millionaire movie stars isn’t exactly right.”
There are 17 separate divisions of the Oscars committees that realize “that in a worst-case scenario, the fires could last for weeks, causing catastrophic and disastrous problems for LA and Hollywood, where the awards are presented.”
The source added that the situation is being monitored with “a number of familiar faces consulted” and that “everything is so up in the air that anything could happen.”
Even if the awards ceremony goes ahead, the extravagant goody bags worth $171,000 will be eliminated as they are deemed in “bad taste” by board members.
These lavish gifts include a three-night stay in the Swiss Alps, beauty treatments, beautiful jewelry and a barbecue worth $1,220.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has already canceled the announcement of this year’s nominees and the luncheon for the nominees.
However, the source stated that “hundreds of millions of dollars are centered around the Oscars and something cataclysmic would have to happen if the main night and ‘biggest revenue generator’ were to be moved.”
A secret ‘contingency strategy’ is reportedly being used to cancel the awards ceremony on March 3, according to the US Sun; Stone envisioned receiving her Oscar in 2024
There is growing concern that going ahead with the glitzy Oscars 2025 ceremony could be seen as tone deaf given the recent devastation; Will Smith was seen receiving an Oscar in 2022
“The board’s main concern right now is not to appear to be celebrating when many Los Angelenos are dealing with heartbreak and unimaginable loss,” an insider told the publication; the Palisades Fire pictured as it destroys a Los Angeles neighborhood on January 7
The top-secret contingency plan, developed in the early 2000s after September 11, would come into effect if a “life-changing event” jeopardized the show’s broadcast.
“Terror threats were the priority in conversations with Homeland Security, FBI, CIA and LAPD task force officials for years, and many of those templates still exist, albeit out of the public domain to avoid alarm.”
On Monday it was announced that the nominations for the 2025 Oscars have been ‘further postponed’. The voting period has been extended until January 17 – after previously being postponed until January 14.
The nominations will now be announced on January 23.
Many social media users have shared their thoughts on the event and suggested turning the ceremony itself into a telethon fundraiser to raise money for the victims of the fires that started last week.
The Oscars were last postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. At the time, the show was postponed for two months, from February to April.
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names have seen their beloved homes razed to the ground during the devastating wildfires that swept through Los Angeles this week.
Anthony Hopkins, Paris Hilton, Miles Teller and Anna Faris are just some of the many stars whose beautiful mansions have been reduced to ashes and rubble.
More than 200,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate and thousands remain trapped in shelters, unable to return home as authorities begin the arduous task of searching the ash and rubble for human remains.
The fires are still raging a week later, claiming at least 25 lives, destroying an estimated 12,300 structures and ravaging 40,000 hectares of land.
The scale of the destruction is unprecedented, with prime real estate stretching from Malibu to the Palisades and up to Santa Monica wiped off the map.
The death toll is likely to rise, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Monday. At least 20 people have been reported missing, he said.