Hollywood writers strike clouds Oscars
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In the 80 years since the first Oscars were handed out, it has taken a war or a flood or an assassination to drastically alter or delay the celebration surrounding the film industry's highest honors.
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The Golden Globes, the ceremony known for getting Hollywood's awards season off to a rollicking start, will be reduced to a news conference Sunday by the writers strike and will likely draw picket lines and lack star power.
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Golden Globe-nominated actors are expected to snub the awards in support of striking Hollywood writers, the actors union said Friday, jeopardizing one of the entertainment industry's signature showcases.
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Will there be any kind of recognizable Oscars show if the writers strike continues?
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Sunday's Screen Actors  Guild Awards will be the industry's first red-carpet event in  this strike-fractured awards season, and even the prospect of  heavy rain hasn't dampened the enthusiasm.
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Hollywood edged closer to possible labor unrest on Friday after film and TV writers overwhelmingly authorized their union to call a strike if no contract deal is reached with the studios by month's end.
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Maybe it was the crippling writers' strike or the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or was it something in the expensive bottled water in Beverly Hills where Oscar organizers are based.
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Hollywood's elite braved cold dreary skies with barely a shiver on Sunday as they crossed the red carpet in off-the-shoulder gowns and designer tuxedos for the 79th annual Oscars.
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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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Unbowed by the writers' strike, the season's first big movie awards show puts Hollywood glamour on display &#13;&#10;
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The Oscars are 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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Hollywood's major studios are  parading their big Oscar contenders, but low-budget art films  and even animated movies are stealing their thunder as the  contest warms up for the U.S. film industry's top honors.
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Hollywood's month of self-congratulation is here, with a field of Oscar contenders strong enough that no clear favorite for best picture has emerged. Not that it will matter, if the writers strike bleeds into the Feb. 24 telecast.
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Hollywood is fearing that the writers' strike, supported by many actors, may prove disastrous for the   Oscars, just as it has forced a big paring down of the Golden Globes Awards ceremony scheduled Jan   13.
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LOS ANGELES  - With the holidays just  one week away, everyone in Hollywood is about to shut down for  a fortnight -- everyone in Hollywood, that is, except for those  awards season campaigners whose job it is to fret about Oscar  nominations, since nominations ballots will be mailed Dec. 27.
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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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Hollywood screenwriters went on strike Monday for the first time in 20 years, threatening the production of TV shows and films in the world capital of the entertainment industry.