Tag: awards_ceremony
Writers Strike Oscar Deal
Looks like the Oscars is going ahead. As in going ahead in recognisable, tear-fuelled, gushy form rather than someone reading a press release announcing the winners and then sticking the statues in the post.
The Academy Awards President Sid Ganis is now positive that the ceremony, the 80th one in fact, will go ahead despite the ongoing writers strike.
‘Things are looking very, very good now,’ said Ganis at the celebration luncheon.
Concerns that the dispute – which is over royalties on DVDs, internet broadcasting and other new technologies developed since the last big walk-out in 1988 – would scuttle the biggest awards ceremony of the year is good news for the industry, but bad news for the BAFTAs, which no doubt expected to become the big self-congratulatory show this year.
Yeah, right. Like that was going to happen. Besides, they’re going to give everything to Atonement, which was the visual equivalent of having your legs waxed.
