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10.03.2024 - 02:43 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Planned protests to disrupt the 96thAcademy Awards on Sunday could find themselves thwarted by Oscar organizers’ contingency plans.
“We are well aware of the protesters, we have a number of back-up scenarios we can activate quickly if needed,” a senior security official working for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said of the anti-Gaza War demonstrators expected to converge around Hollywood and Highland tomorrow afternoon.
“Working with our partners in the LAPD, we anticipate no problems or delays for our guests and nominees,” the official added, looking around the fenced and already heavily guarded perimeter surrounding the Dolby Theatre on Saturday afternoon as crews hurried to get everything ready for Sunday’s show.
Proclaiming “no awards during a genocide” and a collation of pro-Palestine and pro-ceasefire groups are scheduled to meet up Sunday at the site of the now shuttered Cinerama Dome on Sunset Blvd at 1 p.m. PT. “We will not let people turn away from the atrocities in Gaza. We are taking action and making sure Palestine will NOT be ignored for some glitz and glam,” Film Workers for Palestine and SAG-AFTRA for Ceasefire stated earlier this week ahead of their self-described “Action on Oscars Sunday.”
Specifics of the organizers’ game plan to stop protestors from snagging the spotlight at the March 10 Oscars are being kept under lock and key. However, it is Deadline’s understanding that the intention is to keep arriving attendees far away from the protesters flooding the streets. With the ABC-broadcasted ceremony kicking off an hour early this year, at 4 p.m. PT, the goal of organizers is to also make sure nominees, presenters and guests have the opportunity to walk the tented red
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Getting into the 96th Academy Awards has been complicated by the security measures meant to keep pro-Palestinian protesters at a distance. Sources who are waiting to get in said they’ve been stymied. “The entrance of the Oscars has been shut down,” said a source in a tux. “Hundreds of people are stuck.”
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Jaden Thompson “What Was I Made For?” singer Billie Eilish, “Poor Things” star Ramy Youssef and more celebrities wore red pins in support of Artists for Ceasefire at the Oscars red carpet on Sunday. “We’re calling for immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We’re calling for peace and lasting justice for the people of Palestine,” Youssef told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on the red carpet.
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