This year’s Academy Awards will be unlike any other: how will Weinstein be addressed, and what happens if allegations surface about the nominees?
Hollywood usually appreciates dramatic metaphors but when wildfires roared into Los Angeles this week no one said: oh look, just like the Oscars.
It’s a bit too early in awards season to know whether sexual misconduct scandals will immolate or merely singe the film industry’s annual ritual of red carpets, speeches and gongs. But few doubt that the toxic air swirling around Hollywood will affect and potentially disrupt the 90th Oscars, starting with next month’s nominations and the event itself on 4 March.
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