Similar to last year, the 40th edition of SXSW won’t be short on talent, with everyone from Steven Spielberg (his second time at the fest after 2018’s Ready Player One) and Jane Fonda to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer and Andy Cohen walking the BBQ-filled, line-dancing streets of hipsterville Austin.
And that’s with the Oscars in the way Sunday, and the festival’s main haunt, the Austin Convention Center, in the midst of a three-year, $1.6 billion renovation.
That Oscars conflict, it’s a biggie; we understand that SXSW first called dibs on this weekend before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences scheduled its 98th Academy Awards. Oy, what does that mean? It means a break-up of the event cinema programming, tricky travel schedules for stars and filmmakers (Spielberg, a Best Picture nominee for Hamnet, is on a panel Friday), as
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