Writers strike casts pall over awards
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Producers of Hollywood's annual self-congratulation rites have more to fear this year than boring, drawn-out acceptance speeches.
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Hollywood's striking writers and major studios have narrowed their differences after a week of informal talks, raising hopes that a new contract is within reach, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.
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The Academy Awards presentation is  still two months away but the world's top film awards ceremony  found itself embroiled on Tuesday in the worst Hollywood labor  clash in two decades.
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Star power makes a welcome return  on Sunday as the Screen Actors Guild hands out its annual  awards in the glitziest ceremony of a season clouded by a  bitter industry strike.
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LOS ANGELES  - After steamrolling through the Golden Globes and threatening the Oscars, the Hollywood writers strike may also deflate a third marquee award show -- the Grammys.
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The Academy Awards presentation is still two months away but the world's top film awards ceremony found itself embroiled on Tuesday in the worst Hollywood labor clash in two decades.
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BEVERLY HILLS, California  - The gritty dramas "No Country For Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" scored eight Academy Award nominations each on Tuesday, leading a somber field in an Oscar season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers' strike.
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As the Hollywood writers' strike threatens to disrupt the 50th annual Grammy telecast, some in the music industry are befuddled, frustrated and even resentful.
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In case anyone's still keeping count amid the writers strike that has hobbled Hollywood's awards season, the tragic romance "Atonement" led the pack for Sunday's Golden Globes with seven nominations.
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The union for striking Hollywood screenwriters said on Tuesday it had decided to spare next month's Grammy Awards from picketing that could dampen the recording industry's highest honors.
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The Golden Globe Awards were thrust into deeper jeopardy Wednesday when the striking writers guild refused to negotiate with Globe organizers about staging a picket-free ceremony.
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The Screen Actors Guild on Friday said nearly all its members will refuse to cross striking writers' picket lines at the upcoming Golden Globe Awards, throwing Hollywood's award season deeper into doubt.
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As Hollywood's screenwriters gathered on Saturday to hear details of a contract to end their three-month-old strike, they also gave their top film writing awards to comedy "Juno" and drama "No Country for Old Men."
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Hollywood's striking writers scored  two victories on Monday by forcing Golden Globe Awards sponsors  to cancel their traditional star-studded telecast and by  reaching a deal to put writers back to work at Tom Cruise's  film company.
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A settlement of the  Writers Guild of America strike appears imminent, but members  of the postproduction industry -- the craftspeople and  technicians who work on films after principal photography is  completed -- are worried that it's already too late to repair  the harm done.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike
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Striking film and television writers on Thursday canceled their own awards dinner, becoming the latest casualty in the ongoing labor dispute with Hollywood producers.