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Who Really Won the Awards-Season Circuit?
From GameDay selections to podcast appearances to Demi Moore’s dog, Pilaf, here’s what popped and what flopped on the awards-circuit press tours.
Though Pilaf might have been the only mononymic pet of this year’s awards, Ariana Grande ’s and Mikey Madison ’s pups went along for the ride, and four-time Oscar winner Sean Baker had to stop home to walk his dog before hitting up the after-parties. The stan armies for Ariana Grande, Fernanda Torres, and Selena Gomez wreaked havoc, escalating what was already a stressful awards season into an all-out bloodbath between stars trying to keep their heads above water. While none of the winners invoked Donald Trump or the election specifically (which is interesting, considering The Apprentice had a handful of nominations so you know he was watching), this awards race was plenty political — blatantly addressing the lack of support (financial or otherwise) for the arts, advocating against the use of AI, acknowledging the liberties of sex workers, making desperate pleas to end the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, and defending the rights of immigrants.
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