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Vanity Fair has decided to cancel its famed Academy Awards party to show solidarity with the striking writers, even if the strike has ended by the time the awards take place.
“After much consideration, and in support of the writers and everyone else affected by this strike, we have decided that this is not the appropriate year to hold our annual Oscar party. We want to congratulate all of this year’s nominees and we look forward to hosting our 15th Oscar party next year,” a press announcement on the magazine’s website reads.
According to a spokeswoman for the magazine, editor in chief Graydon Carter spoke to “a lot of people” in L.A., and the feeling was that even if the strike was over, life would not go back to normal in Hollywood, writes WWD.
The timing of the announcement has struck some as strange, considering that the informal talks between the two warring sides are reported as being “positive” this week.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has said that the Oscars will go on, strike or no. It has asked the writers not to picket given recent progress in talks. Nonetheless, the guild has said that it will picket, and many stars are expected to skip the event altogether rather than cross a picket line, writes The New York Times.
The Times describes the Oscars without the Vanity Fair party as a wedding without food, music or champagne.
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