24 Hours Of Awards Shows: My Lost Weekend Inside The SAGs, Spirits And PGAs
27.02.2024 - 00:31
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You’ve heard of the 24 Hours of Le Mans? This weekend I attempted something similar for another kind of race, the one to the Oscars. From midday Saturday through Sunday at 9:30 p.m. (with time off for sleep), I ran the awards track from the Shrine in downtown L.A. for the SAG Awards, to the big tent on the beach in Santa Monica for the Indie Spirits, and then to the other side of town at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood for the Producers Guild Awards (the same location where the season will end in just two weeks at the Oscars’ Governors Ball).
By my count I heard 58 winners speeches during the span, and I can’t even begin to count the number of presenter patter intros. Oh, and one very loud protester on Santa Monica Beach.
Every year we have a pileup of events leading to the Oscars — precursor ceremonies, festival galas, endless tributes and adjacent activities — but this lost weekend down the rabbit hole of Hollywood’s Oscar-season madness was unique, and uniquely urgent, because for the first time three major bellwethers, influencers, however you want to label them, were all happening smack in the middle of the six-day period of final Oscar voting. I am not sure how this was scheduled or by who (it likely had to do with the industry’s year of strikes), but somehow the often Oscar-prescient PGA and SAG awards were pushed late into the season and suddenly were happening a few days after Oscar voting was already in progress (ballots are due Tuesday at 5 p.m. PT).
As for the Spirits, they got tired of being the ceremony that took place the day before the Academy Awards and moved the show, they specifically told me at the time in 2019, to be more of a part of the Oscar conversation in terms of influence.
So how was
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