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Pandemic Brings Brutal Hit to Awards-Season Economy: "I'm Basically Living Off Savings Right Now"

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Beyond the acceptance speeches and red carpet looks of a usual awards season is a massive industry of those who work to create glamorous moments on and off-camera.

Event planners, florists, limo drivers and DJs count the typical January-to-March window between the Golden Globes and Oscars as their most profitable.

This year, amid the pandemic and an awards season that looks to be almost entirely virtual, those industries will miss significant portions of their annual income — for some, millions of dollars — after an already trying 11 months.

An L.A. County report released Feb. 9 found that 125,900 hospitality jobs and 37,300 arts and entertainment jobs were lost in 2020.

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