Strike Hits Golden Globes, Oscars
WGA Won’t Grant Waivers Allowing Writers to Work Awards Shows
By Linda Haugsted -- Multichannel News, 12/17/2007 1:10:00 PM MT
Plans for award shows such at The Golden Globes and the Academy Awards will have to go forward without writers.
The Writers Guild of America told the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, presenter of The Golden Globes, and Dick Clark Productions, the production company behind the telecast planned for Jan. 11, that they will not be granted a waiver.
That means striking writers can’t compose banter for presenters or tribute dialog for the TV show.
The union also denied a request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a waiver in connection with the use of clips from motion pictures and past Academy Awards shows for use during the February Oscar telecast.
WGA executives, in letters to planners of the two awards programs, said the WGA is in a crucial struggle to negotiate an agreement. Granting waivers would not advance the goal of getting the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers back to the table, the letters said.
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