The Museum Gala, an annual — and critically essential — fundraiser for the young Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, has quickly become the Met Gala of the west coast, attracting comparably big names — and fashion statements — to its first edition in September 2021 and its second edition in October 2022 .
But, if the strike is still happening at the time of the event, members themselves might well opt to skip it. Many attendees, including more than a few Oscar hopefuls, attend each year as the guests of the studios distributing the film for which they are in contention, who pick up the considerable cost of tables or individual seats .
Then there’s the Governors Awards, an annual gala dinner at which the Academy’s board of governors fetes four people from the film community with special honors. That event — the 14th edition of which has already been publicly slated for Nov. 18 — is non-televised and is put together by union workers , two points that would seemingly be in its favor with the guilds. But then things get complicated.
The Governors Awards are held in the thick of Oscar season because the Academy calculated — rather brilliantly, it turned out — that scheduling it for then would make it a hot spot for big names currently in Oscar contention to be seen/photographed/mingle with Academy members. Indeed, more stars now attend the Governors Awards than the
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