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Oscar Plans Remain Under Strike Cloud

Academy, keenly aware of Golden Globes' fate, is behind schedule

By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 9, 2008 1:53 PM CST
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(Newser) – After the threat of picketing writers shut down the Golden Globes, organizers of the Academy Awards know they're on thin ice, the Hollywood Reporter writes. "Our hope is we can work something out or that the strike is resolved in time," Academy executive director Bruce Davis said of the planned Feb. 24 event, already behind schedule.

The Academy could push to be allowed to negotiate its own agreement with the writers, as David Letterman's production company did. If the bid fails, the Oscar show could still hobble along without writers—as it did in 1988, during the last Hollywood writers' strike—but the show may be postponed if writers threaten to picket.

An Oscar statuette goes through a polishing stage during its manufacture, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, at R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago. The two month walkout by members of the Writers Guild of America has disrupted the beginning of the awards show season, forcing the cancellation of the Golden...
An Oscar statuette goes through a polishing stage during its manufacture, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, at R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago. The two month walkout by members of the Writers Guild of America has...   (Associated Press)
Tom Michael, center, with the U.S. Postal Service, gathers Oscar nomination ballots for mailing Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Beverly Hills, Calif. The ballots for the 80th Academy Awards will be mailed today to the 5,829 voting members...
Tom Michael, center, with the U.S. Postal Service, gathers Oscar nomination ballots for mailing Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Beverly Hills, Calif....   (Associated Press)
Brandon Heiman and Rick Rosas, right, with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, move Oscar nomination ballots for mailing Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in Beverly Hills, Calif. The ballots for the 80th Academy Awards will be mailed today to the 5,829 voting members...
Brandon Heiman and Rick Rosas, right, with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, move Oscar nomination ballots for mailing Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in...   (Associated Press)
A finished Oscar statuette is photographed in the studio at R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, The two month walkout by members of the Writers Guild of America has disrupted the beginning of the awards show season, forcing the cancellation of the Golden Globes...
A finished Oscar statuette is photographed in the studio at R.S. Owens & Company in Chicago on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, The two month walkout by members of the Writers Guild of America has disrupted the...   (Associated Press)
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