In what’s clearly a strike-related delay, the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences has moved the 14th Annual Governors Awards ahead two months to Tuesday, January 9, 2024, nonetheless to be held on the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The Academy’s official press launch made no point out of a motive for the delay, however sources have been telling me discussions have been within the works and it’s clearly because of the strike state of affairs which continues to wreak havoc to many elements of the business and its occasions.
The ceremony, presenting honorary Oscars to Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, editor Carol Littleton, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter, had initially been set for Saturday, November 18 the place it might have been in its regular place to additionally function a major kickoff for the marketing campaign season, as studios and distributors purchase tables and fill them with their Oscar contenders. Now will probably be going down at presumably an much more essential time within the season (at the very least for Oscars), simply two days earlier than nomination voting begins on January 11 and precisely two weeks earlier than nominations are introduced on Tuesday, January 23.
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January is now an extremely, and unusually, crowded month awards-wise with the Primetime and Artistic Arts Emmys ceremonies additionally shifting as a consequence of ongoing SAG and WGA strike considerations. The Primetime Emmys initially set for September 18, 2023, are actually on MLK day, Monday January 15, 2024, whereas the Artistic Arts twin ceremonies happen on January 6 and seven, the latter date additionally the place the Golden Globes intend to carry their ceremony. The AFI Awards luncheon is about for Friday, January 5. On the day earlier than the Primetime Emmys, the Critics Alternative Awards will happen January 14 on the identical Fairmont Lodge the place the Governors Awards will now occur simply 5 days earlier. Whew! Fasten your seatbelts.
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This isn’t the primary time the Governors Awards have needed to transfer. Covid considerations delayed the ceremony two years in the past once they had been introduced in a stripped-down occasion two days earlier than the Oscar ceremony in Hollywood.
One other huge AMPAS Fall occasion, the Academy Museum Gala fundraiser which can honor Meryl Streep, Michael B. Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, and Sofia Coppola is about to happen on October 14 and isn’t anticipated to maneuver because the Academy stated it had been given permission to maneuver ahead by each the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.
