When the Pal­isades Fire broke out in Los An­ge­les last Tues­day, Hol­ly­wood’s awards sea­son was in full swing. The Gold­en Globes had tran­spired less than 48 hours ear­li­er and a se­ries of splashy awards ban­quets fol­lowed in the days af­ter.

But the enor­mi­ty of the de­struc­tion in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia has quick­ly snuffed out all fes­tive­ness in the movie in­dus­try’s high sea­son of cel­e­bra­tion. At one point, the flames even en­croached on the hill­side above the Dol­by The­atre, the home of the Acad­e­my Awards.

The fires have struck at the very heart of a movie in­dus­try still try­ing to sta­bi­lize it­self af­ter years of pan­dem­ic, la­bor tur­moil and tech­no­log­i­cal up­heaval. Not for the first time this decade, the Os­cars are fac­ing the ques­tion of: Should the show go on? And if it does, what do they mean now?

The Os­cars re­main as sched­uled, but it’s cer­tain that they will be trans­formed due to the wild­fires, and that most of the red-car­pet pomp that typ­i­cal­ly stretch­es be­tween now and then will be cur­tailed if not al­to­geth­er can­celed.

With so many left with­out a home by the fires, there’s scant ap­petite for the usu­al self-con­grat­u­la­to­ry pa­rades of the sea­son.

By JAKE COYLE, LIND­SEY BAHR