Safety on the 98th Academy Awards shall be considerably tighter this 12 months. The Oscars are ramping up safety measures within the wake of stark FBI warnings concerning potential Iranian drone assaults in opposition to the state of California.
Throughout a press convention Wednesday (March 11), Oscars telecast government producer Raj Kapoor confirmed this 12 months’s occasion will certainly embody elevated safety precautions.
“We now have the help of the FBI and the LAPD, and it’s an in depth collaboration. This present has to run like clockwork. However we wish all people that’s coming to this present, that’s witnessing the present, that’s even a fan of the present once they’re standing exterior the barricades, we wish all people to really feel protected and guarded and welcome, so it’s our job as a producing workforce to guarantee that that interprets,” Kapoor stated in an announcement to the media.
In the meantime, California Governor Gavin Newsom mirrored Kapoor’s feedback in an announcement posted to X (previously Twitter).
“I’m in fixed coordination with safety and intelligence officers, together with on the California Workplace of Emergency Providers, to watch potential threats to California — together with these tied to the battle within the Center East … Whereas we aren’t conscious of any imminent threats at the moment, we stay ready for any emergency in our state,” he tweeted earlier this afternoon.
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In keeping with a number of stories, the FBI lately issued an pressing alert warning California authorities about potential retaliatory drone assaults by Iran, which has been in battle with the U.S. because the finish of February following President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint coordinated army strikes.
“We lately acquired data that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a shock assault utilizing unmanned aerial automobiles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, particularly in opposition to unspecified targets in California, within the occasion that the U.S. carried out strikes in opposition to Iran. We now have no extra data on the timing, technique, goal, or perpetrators of this alleged assault,” the FBI-issued memo learn, in response to The Los Angeles Instances.
The Oscars are set to happen on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood Sunday night time (March 15).
Hosted once more by Conan O’Brien, the awards ceremony will air stay starting at 7PM E.T. on ABC. The present may also be obtainable to stream on Hulu and Hulu + Dwell TV, YouTube TV, and Fubo TV.
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