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RECIPIENTS OF “THE 65th ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS”
TO BE ANNOUNCED AT BEVERLY HILTON PRESS CONFERENCE ON JANUARY 13thHOLLYWOOD, CA, January 7, 2008 – The Hollywood Foreign Press Association today announced that the recipients of Golden Globe Awards in 25 categories will be revealed during an hour-long HFPA press conference at The Beverly Hilton to be covered live by NBC News beginning at 6:00 pm PST on January 13. “The 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards” NBC telecast and champagne dinner in The Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom is officially cancelled.
“We are all very disappointed that our traditional awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007’s outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television,” said Jorge Camara, President of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. “We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year’s Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled.”
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Maybe NBC can do a televised awards show with scab look-a-likes. That might satisfy some of the “millions of disappointed fans worldwide”.
Wow. How bitchy.
I LOVE IT!!
The WGA literally has the entertainment industry by the globes!
If NBC gets to cover this event at all and collect ad money, the actors, while not boycotting, should take aggressive shots (throughout the ceremony) at the moguls and their reluctance to give the writers a fair deal. This seems to let NBC get a little something when they deserve nothing. That said, if I was an advertiser, I wouldn’t pay remotely near what they were originally gonna charge. This should still cost NBC millions!
And if this works, then the networks have just found a way to never write the awards show again. As a result, those writing jobs will just be lost forever.
Personally, I welcome it. The part I hate most about these awards shows is the incredibly lame jokes that are scripted for the hosts and presenters.
No actor, scribe or director should attend the pretend awards show for NBC’s benefit. We should all be out front on a picket line together telling them to get back to the table and deal in good faith.
Nobody really thinks this will somehow get the Writers a better deal, right?
a cheap and evasive way to try to get the winners to appear on camera and save the advertising money. Zucker. what a putz.
@BS:
That’s exactly why the WGA should have granted a waiver to the HFPA in the first place. This telecast could have been a three plus hour soapbox. Instead, I don’t see anoyone coming out of this farce looking like a winner.
Thanks WGA for sparing me the sight of all you Hollywood people fawning over each other! Of all the things I miss with this stupid strike, award shows aren’t even on the list. You writers can’t touch sports. Long live the NFL, Pardon the Interuption and Jim Rome!
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And if this works, then the networks have just found a way to never write the awards show again. As a result, those writing jobs will just be lost forever.
I doubt it. If people tune in it will be to see if it’s a trainwreck or not.
The Globes are for the fans and the fans love productions and red carpets and clothing analysis and the idea that Film and TV actors are all one big happy family.
This is interim and there’s no way it will ever take over from the real deal…all the sizzle without the steak.
The advertising revenue will be made up by all the political ads coming down in for the elections.
Can’t the Guild picket this anyway since NBC is broadcasting it live? Or is the fact that it’s a “news” program take it out of Guild jurisdiction and the legal right to picket it???
Will all of the SAG winners show up now that it’s a “news” program??
If so, NBC has outsmarted the Guild here –
and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating 2007’s outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television
Say again?
Hmmm…Hollywood without the stars is just the Nightly News. And the Nightly News with the stars is Hollywood.
I am a writer. And all of us in the WGA have received piles of e-mails talking about how great the strike has been. How great the support has been. How amazing the unity has been with the WGA. It has. And I salute everyone for the effort.
I didn’t vote in favor of the strike, but I didn’t vote against it either. I knew the strike was going to go through and didn’t want the union to look weaker by another vote on the no side. But secretly, I was just hoping we stayed working. I haven’t been a regular picketer, but I’ve done it a bunch of times. I understand the issues, it’s not that I don’t think we are correct, I just love to write. And I didn’t want that option taken away from me. Not for a year, not even for a day.
I’ve read a few of those ‘Why We Write’ articles and hear the writers somewhat jokingly say they hate writing. I don’t understand it. I love to write. I get up everyday, ready to write more pages. And since the strike has happened, I can’t help but feel a little lost. But look, I get it. I know the deals in front of us aren’t acceptable. I know the entire WGA needs to hold their ground. And I know a lot of money is at stake. So I don’t have a problem with any of the negotiating tactics we have used…until now.
I want to talk to anyone who will listen…about the Golden Globes. Who made this decision for the WGA to cancel the Golden Globe award show? I understand everything can’t be called to a vote, but I’m not sure this was one thought all the way through. So maybe it should have been. Or maybe it should be. If there is any chance of still getting the awards show on the air or if there is any way to salvage anything with respect to this year’s ceremony, here is one vote for allowing the Golden Globes to continue this year just as it always would
Consider this…what do we, the WGA, gain from canceling this event? Think for a second. Objectively. What do we gain? I honestly can’t think of one thing…
Are we doing this for the PR? It is true…every newspaper and TV news show that mentions the Golden Globes mentions that the awards show is canceled because of us. That’s great…but this is NOT the kind of PR we want. Ideally, the world listening to every A-list actor and director and writer in Hollywood being interviewed before, during, and after the Golden Globes awards show, pledging their support for the WGA in front of the entire entertainment community from the presidents and chairmen on down. This would be MUCH bigger/better/more powerful PR than the non-event that would result in canceling the awards show.
Are we doing this to further hurt NBC? This is one night of ratings for them. If canceling all of their scripted programming wasn’t getting them to rush back to the bargaining table, I don’t think this will. This is barely a blip on their yearly radar screen when it comes to advertising dollars.
Is canceling this show just an ego thing? So we can show we’re powerful enough to cancel an awards show. I guess that shows a bit of strength, but to who, and for what? To ourselves? Is that worth it? Because I don’t think so. If you think that flexing our muscles in this negative way makes the heads of Sony, of Warner Bros, or even NBC/Universal (who would be airing it) nervous, you are mistaken. You really think that those men and women are sitting in their plush offices, biting their nails, saying ‘oh shit, they cancelled the Globes! Let’s get a deal done with them as soon as possible?’ Let me tell you this…they are not. It’s just not that big of a deal to any of them.
What else is it? Someone tell me. Tell all of us. Give me one solid reason, because I don’t believe there is one.
Oddly enough, the people we are hurting the most by canceling this awards show are the very people that are showing us their support. Sure, the producers earn a few extra dollars by their shows and movies winning awards. But the people we are really hurting are the actors just beginning their careers. The first time director with a break-through movie. It’s anyone never nominated before…for anything. It’s the hard working lawyers, managers, and agents, who have their first clients nominated and can finally be thanked and recognized. These people who never knew what it felt like to be able to be in that ‘in’ crowd. They never knew what it was like to not have to beg for tickets to the InStyle party. This night is about celebrating great work in our business…and that’s all it’s about.
I don’t even like awards shows. Listening to people drone on with their thank you’s makes me more nauseous than anything else. But I would watch this one. I would watch as actor after actor got up there to thank the WGA for allowing this to go on. And how they know it wasn’t an easy decision, but they appreciate the understanding that this wasn’t about the WGA. This decision is made to honor the blood, sweat, and tears that the writers, actors, and directors put into their work over the last year. And let us not forget about the studio executives, many of whom are our friends, and support what we are doing. The AMPTP decisions aren’t up to them. They don’t get a vote. And they put hard work into these movies and TV shows and deserved to be recognized for it.
SAG has agreed to not send one actor to the awards show. I was moved by their show of support. It’s an incredible gesture by them, and let us not overlook how difficult that might could be for some of the nominees.
If I was an actor and this was my first nomination, I would be angry at the WGA. And deservingly so. If I was an up & coming agent of an actor that was nominated, I would be mad. If I was a writer and was up for an award, I wouldn’t tolerate it. I would picket my own guild. I would cross my own lines. Because my one shot to stand up in front of the world could have just sailed away. We all know how much magic it takes to get a product out there worthy of being nominated by anyone for anything. You can write 30 great scripts and have zero great products. There are so many other factors that go into getting something incredible made. I don’t think we deserve to take this moment away from these people. It’s not ours to take. But it could be ours to give.
The great and positive PR that the WGA had to start this strike is starting to waiver. I can feel it every time I call back home and a friend or family member asks if the strike is still going on. Then I start seeing articles in the paper how we are squabbling with Jay Leno over his monologue (something I really hope is being blown out of proportion by the producers, but fear that it is all true) and canceling this harmless awards show. We need a new waive of good PR and this could be the start of it.
We stand to gain more by allowing this show to continue. More support from the public. More support from the other guilds. More support from members of our own guild.
Above all, let us just not forget that these awards shows are for celebrating great work. They have little to do with our struggle. But if you need to think selfishly about it…for every award winner, there is a writer behind their work. Every award is attached to a WGA member. Secondly, and this could be about the WGA using positive, not negative energy to get their message out.
The actors have shown incredible support. Let’s give a little back to them. And by doing so, we help ourselves. If there is any way to salvage anything with respect to these awards, please, let us do it now.
I ask you to forward this on to any writers you know. Hopefully it gets into the hands of people that can do something positive with it.
Matt O’Neil
Of course it won’t work, DBHughes. Mr. and Ms. Average tune in to lame awards shows for the pageant, not the results.
DBHughes said: “And if this works, then the networks have just found a way to never write the awards show again. As a result, those writing jobs will just be lost forever.”
Uh… that’s sort of like saying that ABC could just keep on airing clip shows of “Lost” and never have to pay those writers again. The normal star-studded Golden Globes broadcast typically garners NBC some reliably high ratings. They do it because they want to, and because it makes them money. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this “newscast” will not do much for them (except maybe keep their contract with the HFPA active so they can go back to showing the awards in the future when the strike is over).
I’m all for things that accomplish our goals but as far as I can see this just beat a lot of make up artists and hair people out of a day’s work, which they sorely need and hurt a lot of restaurants and caterers who also need the work and may very well have ended the writing jobs on the show forever, if indeed the show ever comes back.
I know a lot of you say these are second rate awards and in many ways I agree. Certainly they don’t hold the same cachet as an Academy Award (although there have been some lulus given out there, too). Yes, the awards will be announced and the winners can say they won them but hey, does anyone know who got mailed the yellow jersey when it was taken away from Floyd Landis? Plus, ask him (it was Oscar Pereiro) if it’s as much fun having the jersey mailed to you as it is circling Paris champagned flute in hand.
I’m truly afraid all these giddy little sideshows are about making us feel good while we don’t notice the AMPTP’s master strategy: putting some back to work while others walk the line, making the BTL people and audiences even angrier at us. (Yes, I know there are a great many BTL people who support us and that many of the fans understand the issues but trust me, there are also a hell of a lot who don’t.)
I am happy for those who are working. I hope all of us all someday very soon.
IF it works, DBHughes? How could it fail?
A lively press conference where the president of the HPFA reads off a list of nominees and winners, 75% of whom will be completely unknown to the audience, only stands a chance of being beaten by local cable access.
Even the most hardcore Golden Globes pool junkie, if there was such a thing, wouldn’t be able to sit through this, getting the exact same list off the internet takes far less than an hour.
I LOVE IT!!
The WGA literally has the entertainment industry by the globes!
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Copyright that, Shelly! (could you be in trouble? Pencils down & all that?)
Brilliant! That needs to be a T-Shirt!
Sorry, AMPTP!
To quote Chris Kelly,
“By sorry I mean, ‘HA HA, FUCK YOU!’”
Matt O’Neill makes some interesting points but I have to argue one of them:
“If I was an actor and this was my first nomination, I would be angry at the WGA.”
If this was your first nom you would owe the whole thing to your writers/showrunner/creator.
That’s the whole point.
The writing is where it all starts.
Who gives a shit if some agent is upset?
They don’t make this stuff, we do.
And NBC isn’t PBS or C-SPAN broadcasting the Globes for the public good. They stand to make millions in ad dollars and web tie-ins.
Should the WGA help the poor suffering network? SAG is backing this stance because we are in this together. It’s all of our monies we are fighting for now.
I agree Anon. the WGA had a 3-hour soap box and turned it down (stupid)… leaving hundreds to lose a job and getting some bad PR. The Alliance must be loving this, because they didn’t have to spin anything.
The notion that the WGA wanted to hurt the studios by denying them publicity is bull, because as long as the winners are announced, there will be publicity. Score one for NBC and one for the Alliance.
Will no Globes and the WGA shutting down a big show bring the Alliance back to the table? No. And the WGA is stupid to think that it will. What’s their incentive? They do not care about us below-the-line people, either. So the ego contest continues.
Before you ask, yes the unions (all three) should get a piece of the new media, but what are we below-the-line people (who don’t see any residuals) supposed to do while we wait for them to get their piece of the pie? We can’t go fi-core. While some are lucky to make enough money, which they hopefully saved, what about the newbies who are counting on their daily freelance job to make ends meet?
Good. Not only does the Golden Globes represent everything that’s WRONG in HollyWierd, but it isn’t a genuine representation of who’s actually talented and hardworking. And this just goes to show that eight bigwigs with big change purses still don’t outweigh the little people they like to step on.
If this was your first nom you would owe the whole thing to your writers/showrunner/creator.
That’s the whole point.
First, let me say it for you: troll, shill.
But damn, comments like those make my blood boil. I think we might ought to give a little credit to the actor who makes a writer’s words come alive. In fact, how many times have I heard a writer thank actors, directors, hey, God forgive me but even the company that made the film possible by fronting the money.
This strike will never be settled as long as both sides think that what they bring to the table is all that it takes.
I want the writers to receive their fair share and I certainly think it should be more than it is now but, damn, get over yourselves. Try reading your script aloud on YouTube and see how much revenue you generate.
Once again, let me say it for you: troll, shill.