How Many ‘Starts’ Does Awards Season Really Need?

The Hollywood Film Awards, which took place on Sunday evening at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, is a shindig that TheWrap tends to ignore. But it’s also “the official launch of awards season.” I know that because on the HFA website, there’s a ® mark next to that phrase. And it couldn’t have a registered trademark that wasn’t true, right? The thing is, I was at the Academy’s Governors Awards, an event we do cover, a week before the HFA. And in his speech, Academy president David Rubin said that his show was the beginning of awards season. So who should I trust? I mean, the HFA has that ®, but the Academy is pretty much the whole reason why an awards season even exists, so shouldn’t they get to decide when it starts? But I’ve made up my own mind on this one: Both of them are lying. By the time the Governors Awards rolled around on Oct. 27, we’d already had BAFTA Los Angeles’ Britannia Awards, the American Society of Cinematographers’ Student Heritage Awards and the Student Academy Awards, plus the nominations for the Gotham Awards, the IDA Documentary Awards and the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. Also Read: 91-Year-Old...

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