Oscars: What’s true about rumors about Oscar cancellation?

The all-consuming fires around Los Angeles are still raging. 25 people have now fallen victim to the devastating fires. Entire areas of the city where the famous Oscars are to be awarded on March 2nd have been destroyed. Recently there were even rumors that the awards ceremony would be canceled. The Oscar Academy awards committee has now taken a clear stance on the speculation.

The rumors about an Oscars cancellation were sparked by the English tabloid newspaper “The Sun”. This was published on its website on Tuesday evening. Accordingly, the Academy set up a kind of emergency committee made up of A-list celebrities. This will discuss whether and how the award ceremony should actually take place on March 2nd. According to the Sun, the committee only includes multiple Oscar winners. Hollywood superstars Tom Hanks (68), Emma Stone (36), Meryl Streep (75) and Steven Spielberg (78) are said to be discussing the fate of this year’s awards ceremony every day. “Hollywood Reporter” calls such rumors “baseless lies.”

According to the “Hollywood Reporter”, the Oscars have never been canceled in their 96-year history, even during the darkest Corona times. And this also applies to the 97th award ceremony. The medium spoke to “high-ranking representatives of the Academy as well as people who are close to some of the A-list celebrities mentioned.” It can then be “categorically” ruled out that such an advisory committee exists and that a rejection is being considered. As the Sun reports, there is no “threat to the Oscars.”

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the organization’s 55-member Board of Governors is solely responsible for organizing the upcoming Oscars on March 2nd. And the high-ranking committee only announced on Monday that the date of the award ceremony would not be postponed. According to the Hollywood Reporter, this is all the more remarkable because the Oscar board also includes four people who themselves lost their homes in the forest fires.

The Oscar Board simultaneously announced that the window for voting on Oscar nominations would be extended. In addition, the announcement of the Oscar nominations was postponed and this year’s Oscar nominees lunch was canceled. All nominees traditionally meet at the exclusive lunch to take a photo together. They receive a “lunch package” filled with all sorts of treasures from the Oscar sponsors. According to “Sun”, this year’s goody bag should be worth the equivalent of 160,000 euros. Apparently the valuable lunch packages are now being “scrapped,” according to the “Sun.”