Youve heard of the 24 Hours of Le Mans?
This weekend I attempted something similar for another kind of race, the one to theOscars.
Oh, andone very loud protesteron Santa Monica Beach.
Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, and Emily Blunt attend the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards; America Ferrera and Margot Robbie speak onstage during the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards; Jeffrey Wright, Celine Song Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, during the 2024 Film Independent Spirit AwardsGetty Images
This one is now back in play all the way until Oscar night.
Searchlights Matthew Greenfield told me at the Spirits that he still has high hopes for an eventual Stone win.
Never say never, though.
Saturday’s SAG Awards at the ShrineGetty Images
Certainly that was the vibe I picked up at all these shows this weekend.
Sure there is the horse race, always.
Who wins, who loses.
Shots to some like Anne Hathaway in the audience showed them full of tears.
You had to be there.
I am glad I was.Gail Bermans impassioned acceptance of the Norman Lear Achievement Awardgets a yes from me too.
I guess people dont really eat at these things, he laughed.
Tis his season and well deserved.
I wasnt the only one doing the weekends triumvirate.
I was happy to be sitting at theBeeftable at the Spirits.
My favorite moment there though was watching DaVine Joy Randolph seated atThe Holdoverstable just behind ours.
Her sheer happiness for him was palpable.
Even that lone protester outside the tent with a very loud megaphone couldnt destroy moments like that.
He came for me when I got my award.
Of course, Winkler has a long history producing for Scorsese, and has total recall of everything.
Winkler won his Oscar forRockyin 1976 and recounted all the other nominees just like it was yesterday.
It turns out he had promised each of his five grandchildren he would take them to the Oscars.
Payne is also one of the owners of the Village.
It was an important symbol for the future of movie theaters that really made a strong statement.
It also happens to be the theater where I saw my first movie and got hooked.
