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24 Hours Of Awards Shows: My Lost Weekend Inside The SAGs, Spirits And PGAs
My lost weekend darting from the SAG Awards to Indie Spirits to PGA in last weekend of Oscar voting as the Race heats up towards the finish line.
I am not sure how – or who – scheduled it this way, 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 in season and suddenly were happening a few days after Oscar voting was already in progress (ballots are due tomorrow at 5pm PT). It is a very strong category that also includes career-best work from Bradley Cooper, Colman Domingo, and Jeffrey Wright, the latter being the only other Best Actor nominee to score a major win this season by taking lead performance at the Spirits yesterday for American Fiction. I don’t there there was a greater moment this season than seeing that photo of all these incredible directors standing in front of the theatre, having saved it (word is one of the bidders wanted to keep the facade of the historical monument but turn it into an office building inside.
Or read this on Deadline