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How Hollywood Strikes Affected This Year’s Oscar Race
Industry insiders weigh in on how Hollywood’s labor strikes and promotion restrictions affected this year’s wild Oscar race.
The path to those new deals, however, was lit by burning bridges: Ugly public dustups between figures like Disney CEO Bob Iger and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher created friction between powerful check-writing executives and the stars they rely on to open movies and promote them for awards such as the Oscars. This meant huge frontrunners like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” could not trot out starry casts — Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling for the former; Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Florence Pugh for the latter — to gain the kind of momentum that catches Academy voter attention. This left the field wide open for smaller movies released by companies that are not members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (the collective bargaining group that negotiates with Hollywood unions on behalf of the studios).
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