00:00Hack star Jean Smart is urging networks to forego airing upcoming Hollywood award shows and to donate to the victims and
00:06firefighters of the LA wildfires instead. Smart shared this post on Instagram that reads,
00:12Attention, with all due respect, during Hollywood's season of celebration,
00:16I hope any of the networks televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider not
00:22televising them and donating the revenue they would have garnered to victims of the fires and the firefighters.
00:27She didn't name specific award shows or dollar amounts. Among the big upcoming award shows, though,
00:32are the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are set to stream on Netflix on Sunday,
00:36February 23rd, from the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall, and the Academy Awards,
00:41set to air on ABC from the Dolby Theater on Sunday, March 2nd. Due to the fires,
00:45the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to extend the Oscar nomination voting window,
00:51which began at 9 a.m. Pacific on Wednesday morning and was to have ended at 5 p.m. Pacific on Sunday evening.
00:57Now it will run until 5 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday, January 14th.
01:01The Oscar nominations unveiling has also been pushed back from Friday, January 17th to Sunday, January 19th.
01:08Smart just won her second Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series for her work in the third season of
01:14the max show, Hacks.
01:16The hit series is among those whose production has been paused due to the blazes in different parts of LA.
01:21For much more on this story and for a list of organizations
01:24collecting donations and offering help to those impacted by the fires, head to THR.com.
01:29This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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