L.A. Fires Upend the Oscars

I talk to strategists and filmmakers whose awards hopes are dwarfed by their anxieties over a city's staggering losses

OSCAR PIVOTS “No one can complain because everyone is in the same fucking boat,” says one strategist of the disruption to awards campaigning. (Sunset Fire: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images; Oscar: PEDRO UGARTE/AFP via Getty Images)

In the past five years Hollywood has become soberingly familiar with the last-minute pivot. Film festivals canceled or moved e…