2025 Writers Guild Awards Nominations Delayed Again Amid L.A. Fires

The 2025 Writers Guild Awards nominations have been delayed again.

The WGA is the latest organization to further postpone an awards announcement amid the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires.

The guild was originally set to announce this year’s nominees on Thursday, Jan. 9, but the announcement was delayed until Monday due to the fires. Now the reveal has been pushed back again.

“Due to ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area, we will be delaying the announcement of Writers Guild Award nominees until further notice,” the guild said Monday in a statement from both its East and West Coast branches.

The WGA’s move comes after the Producers Guild Sunday postponed for a second time the announcement of its film and TV nominees due to the ongoing devastation from the fires. And earlier Monday, the Oscars announced it would be extending its voting window until Jan. 19 and pushing back its nominations announcement (for the second time), with this year’s nominees now set to be revealed on Jan. 23.

The American Society of Cinematographers has also moved its awards nomination announcement, originally set for Thursday, Jan. 9 and then Monday, Jan. 13, back for a second time.

Numerous other awards season events have also been postponed, including the Critics Choice Awards, BAFTA Tea Party and other gatherings and screenings of Oscar hopeful contenders.

Meanwhile, the Grammys announced Monday that it was sticking with its Feb. 2 awards show date.

As of Monday, the fires had left 24 people dead and burned more than 12,000 structures.

The 2025 Writers Guild Awards are currently set to take place in simultaneous ceremonies in New York and L.A. on Feb. 15. It was previously announced that Bill Lawrence (Bad Monkey, Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Scrubs) would receive the Herb Sargent Award for comedy excellence and that Scott Frank (Monsieur Spade, The Queen’s Gambit, Out of Sight, Get Shorty, Minority Report, The Wolverine, Logan) would receive the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement.