Amid the chaos of the continuing Los Angeles wildfires, some within the media are spreading baseless lies suggesting that the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences is significantly contemplating cancelling the 97th Oscars ceremony, which is scheduled to happen in Hollywood on Sunday, March 2.
The U.Ok. tabloid newspaper The Solar posted a narrative to its web site on Tuesday night, which was picked up by the Drudge Report and went viral, that it marketed as “Unique” and headlined: “OSCARS THREAT Oscars 2025 on verge of being cancelled as bosses secretly plot main modifications to ceremony after LA wildfires.” The piece went on to assert that “A secret ‘contingency technique’ is in place for the March third Awards to be referred to as off” — getting the date improper — and elaborated, “The Oscars awards ceremony is on the verge of being cancelled for the primary time in its 96-year historical past… Official Academy Award committees are monitoring the scenario each day, led by stars together with Tom Hanks, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg.”
The Hollywood Reporter has spoken with senior figures on the Academy, in addition to people near a few of the aforementioned A-listers, and may categorically report that no such plan is being contemplated and no such advisory committee exists.
The one physique at the moment weighing how the Academy ought to proceed is the group’s 55-person board of governors, which at the moment consists of not one of the people listed by The Solar, and the latest dedication of which — introduced on Monday — is that the date of the Oscars ceremony, now 47 days away, won’t be shifting.
The board — which incorporates 4 people who misplaced their properties within the fires — did, nevertheless, lengthen the Oscar nominations voting window; push again the announcement of the Oscar nominations; cancel this yr’s Oscar Nominees Luncheon; and postpone the Scientific and Technical Awards.
Any change to the Oscars ceremony itself would require vital session between the Academy and its longtime broadcasting accomplice ABC. And it’s at the moment the prevailing sentiment inside the Academy’s management that the present ought to go on — in a dignified method that may assist to boost funds for and rejoice hearth aid efforts.
The Oscars ceremony, for which about 1,000 locals are usually employed, has by no means been “canceled” — even within the darkest days of COVID, it was barely postponed after which held in a pared-down method — and once more, there may be at the moment no inner motion to cancel the version slated for March 2.
The article in The Solar