Jon Ossoff Is Hollywood’s New Crush: ‘He’s Dreamy’

How do you prove you’re a member of the Hollywood elite? You could snag a regular table at the Polo Lounge. Or have a primo seat at a studio premiere. In the past few months, there has been another answer: unload four figures on the reelection campaign of Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff.

In the agency world, possibly the only thing CAA’s Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane and Range Media Partners founder Peter Micelli seem to agree on is their support for the 39-year-old senator. All three have donated to his campaign in his bid for a second term. 

UTA CEO David Kramer can also be counted as a major donor, according to Federal Election Commission records released Thursday. Reed Hastings, Casey Bloys, Michael Eisner, Peter Chernin, David Geffen and Marta Kauffman all contributed to the campaign. On the talent side, Ben Stiller, Annette Bening, Sally Field and Bob Odenkirk all forked over four figures. Even Larry David, who lists his employer as “Latte Larry Inc.” on campaign donations, has chipped in. And there are many, many more.

Ossoff will be back in L.A. on Monday at a Hancock Park fundraiser co-hosted by Kramer and Miramax CEO Jonathan Glickman. Hollywood, it seems, has fallen hard. “He’s dreamy,” says one industry player who donated $7,000 ($3,500 in the primary, $3,500 in the general), the maximum allowed under FEC rules. Many in the donor class have high hopes for the charismatic politician’s future. “Everyone is fascinated because they really do believe he can be president of the United States.”

Last year, in the wake of the disappointing-for-most-of-Hollywood 2024 election, and the fallout from the 2025 L.A. fires, previously reliable industry donors pulled back. The sentiment, according to one donor advisor, was: “We’re not giving to anything.” Then came a wave of Trump tariffs, ICE raids and Epstein files fallout. Now, if you’re a major Democratic donor, you’ve been on the L.A. scene.

“There’s more willingness to give,” says the industry donor. “There’s more willingness to meet candidates. It just feels like we’re doing it better and smarter this time.” 

Adds a former TV executive and top Democratic fundraiser, “People are all in on 2026. People feel like 2028 won’t matter unless we do well in 2026.”

Another Hollywood favorite, Texas U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico, made the trip for multiple events in recent months — in June at Chernin’s home, and again on Sept. 10, when he and Ossoff teamed up for “Two Visionaries, One Night,” hosted by Shonda Rhimes and Damon and Heidi Lindelof, with tickets from $1,000 to $27,000.

The candidates are “coming so fast and furious you can’t keep up with them,” the Ossoff donor says. “If you saw my inbox on any given day about how many people are coming out….”

But while candidates like Ossoff, Talarico and a handful of others have won over the town, there are some midterm races that have Hollywood split around support for Israel. Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, whose opposition to American defense spending on Benjamin Netanyahu‘s Israel, as well as his association with far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, spurred a wave of donations to two of his primary opponents, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and State Sen. Mallory McMorrow. 

Now that he’s facing off against Trump-backed Republican Mike Rogers, more Hollywood heavyweights have come around to backing El-Sayed — though some notably have not, including Casey Wasserman (more on that below).

Meanwhile, in the Los Angeles mayoral race, which earlier saw major donors throwing cash behind Spencer Pratt, Mayor Karen Bass still has industry allies, but when it comes to courting Hollywood, City Council member Nithya Raman has wiped the floor with the broadly unpopular incumbent.

Here’s where the town’s money is going: