SAG Awards cancel live nominations announcement due to Los Angeles wildfires
Joey King and Cooper Koch were originally supposed to announce the 2025 SAG nominees during a live event
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Your support makes all the difference.The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards have canceled its in-person nominee announcement event due to the devastating wildfires and winds raging in the Los Angeles area.
The nominations for this year’s SAG awards, which honor the best performances in TV and movies, were originally supposed to be announced by actors Joey King and Cooper Koch at a live event on Wednesday morning (January 8). They will now be announced in a press release instead.
The 31st annual awards ceremony, held at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles, will be hosted by Kristen Bell, who takes over for last year’s presenter, Idris Elba.
A live stream of the February 23 show will be available to watch on Netflix beginning at 8 p.m. EST.
The SAG Awards are often a reliable Oscar bellwether for the acting and best picture categories.
The Wednesday nominations are just the latest in a string of entertainment events to be canceled due to the fires. The premieres of Robbie William’s biopic Better Man, Jennifer Lopez’s Unstoppable movie and Universal Pictures’ upcoming horror film Wolf Man have also been nixed.
The deadly Southern California fires, which initially sparked on Tuesday near Eaton Canyon in Altadena, have since spread across the county hitting neighboring areas, including the Pacific Palisades, an affluent neighborhood that is home to numerous celebrities.
The Hills alums Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt’s Palisades have revealed that their Palisades house has burned down.
Meanwhile, more than 80,000 L.A. residents have been forced to flee as at least three fires rage, with zero percent containment.
The LAFD is bracing for bruising Santa Ana winds of up to 60mph through Thursday, leaving those on the ground fearing it will fan the flames and increase the spread. In response, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the deployment of more than 1,400 firefighting personnel in an attempt to extinguish blazes across L.A.
President Joe Biden has been briefed and said the county can leverage “any federal assistance.”
Additional reporting by the Associated Press.
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