Time’s Up to get its moment on Oscar stage
Los Angeles, March 3: The Academy Awards show has set aside a moment to feature the Time’s Up campaign against workplace sexual misconduct during Sunday’s Oscars ceremony. Organisers of the campaign said they have worked with the producers of Sunday’s ceremony to bring attention their cause, Hollywood trade publications Variety and The Hollywood Reporter said on Friday. “There’s a moment that’s been carved out,” Variety quoted film director Ava DuVernay as saying.
The organisers did not give details, and producers of the Oscars show did not respond to a request for comment. The sexual misconduct scandal has dominated Hollywood’s awards season and forced dozens of actors, filmmakers and agents to step down, be fired or dropped from creative projects.
The Oscars ceremony on Sunday will give the Time’s Up campaign its biggest public moment, reaching an audience of Alist celebrities and millions watching on television worldwide.
Time’s Up, launched on Jan. 1, is a legal defence fund which aims to support people reporting sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and beyond.
It has the support of some of Hollywood’s biggest female stars, including Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, DuVernay and” Grey’s Anatomy” producer Shonda Rhimes.
Celebrities wore black at the Golden Globe awards ceremony in January to signal support for victims of sexual harassment, and at Grammy Awards in January many artists attached white roses to their clothes.