Jean Sensible Says Networks Should not Air Upcoming Award Exhibits & Donate to Fireplace Victims As a substitute

The Hacks star — who picked up Golden Globe Award earlier this week for her work on the HBO comedy — took to Instagram on Wednesday, urging networks to forgo airing upcoming awards exhibits and, as a substitute, donate to the victims of the L.A. wildfires and firefighters.

“With ALL due respect, throughout Hollywood’s season of celebration, I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will severely think about NOT televising them and donating the income they might have garnered to victims of the fires and the firefighters,” the actress wrote on her Instagram account, following a capitalized “ATTENTION.”

Whereas the 73-year-old didn’t title any particular awards ceremonies, the largest ones arising are the Display screen Actors Guild Awards — airing reside on Netflix from the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, February 23 — and the Academy Awards, which ABC will air reside from the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2.

The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences already determined to increase the Oscar nomination voting window following the fires, pushing the deadline to five p.m. PT on Tuesday, January 14. The revealing of this yr’s Oscar nominations has additionally been pushed again from Friday, January 17, to Sunday, January. 19.

The Critics Alternative Awards, which had been speculated to be this coming Sunday, have additionally been rescheduled to January 26.

Sensible’s concept was met with some criticism, with one particular person claiming to be a expertise govt who works for “stated award exhibits” questioning how the thought would profit these “under the road” within the feedback.

“These of us ‘under the road’ depend on award season financially to get us via the yr,” they wrote. “Jean, my job as a Expertise Govt exists solely to have fun your achievements and make sure you and your friends have an pleasurable time at these occasions. Productions shutting down will additional contribute to the demise of LA. How will these of us rebuild if we won’t work?”

Whereas one other instructed to alter the format of the present: “May the present nonetheless go on however all earnings be donated? Then may the awards exhibits could possibly be produced as fundraisers, too – form of like a telethon?”

Sensible’s message comes after she simply took dwelling her second Golden Globe for greatest actress in a musical or comedy for her work within the third season of the Max collection Hacks. Manufacturing for the present has paused because of the blazes in varied areas of L.A..

Adrien Brody felt uneasy celebrating his present awards sweep and cried for the victims of the L.A. fires whereas accepting the very best actor prize on the New York Movie Critics Circle Awards on Wednesday night time in New York Metropolis.

“I might be remiss to not point out the load of what is on all of our minds and in our hearts tonight,” Brody stated, who took dwelling the award for his efficiency as László Tóth in director Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.

“It has been a heavy day for me. It is at all times onerous to just accept one thing like this when there’s a lot struggling on the earth. My coronary heart goes out to all of the households and the animals and our colleagues,” he continued.

“Many of the houses on the west facet, the seashore facet of the [Pacific Coast Highway] are gone. From the Palisades on, that is our group,” he added. “So I simply wish to thank and commend the bravery of the primary responders, and their sacrifices and their significant work that deserves our recognition tonight.”