No pickets for Critics' Choice Awards
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With no picket signs in sight, stars were free to attend the Critics' Choice Awards on Monday. The Writers Guild of America strike, which began Nov. 5, has effectively shut down Hollywood and cast a pall over Tinseltown's awards season. But the Critics' Choice Awards, presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, isn't covered by guild contracts.
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Bringing a measure of optimism to the bleak Hollywood writers strike saga, the union said Tuesday it would start informal talks with studios, drop some contract demands and give a picket-free blessing to the Grammy Awards.
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Striking film and television  writers on Thursday canceled their own annual awards dinner,  saying that no show honoring the best screenplays of 2007 will  be held until their labor action has ended.
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"No Country for Old Men," a gritty  thriller about a killer who cuts a path of destruction across  Texas, was named best film at the Critics Choice Awards on  Monday, leaving contenders such as "Into the Wild" and "Juno"  by the wayside.
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Monday that the traditional Golden Globe Awards ceremony has been canceled and will be replaced with a news conference format. The move came after striking writers threatened to picket the event.
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There may be no Golden Globes show, but that didn't stop the L.A. Film Critics from handing out awards Saturday â and drawing stars.  The best picture honor went to There Will Be Blood, best actor to the film's star Daniel Day-Lewis, best actress to ...
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PASADENA, Calif.  - Two hit films that have been  snubbed this awards season in Hollywood snared top People's  Choice honors on Sunday as anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit  9/11" was named best film and "The Passion of The Christ" best  film drama.
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The Writers Guild of  America said Tuesday it won't picket the Grammy Awards, but the  Recording Academy hasn't yet secured an interim work agreement  for guild writers to participate in a telecast of the February  10 show.
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The union representing striking Hollywood writers on Monday denied a request to allow its members to write for the Golden Globes, while also rejecting a request to use old movie clips for the Oscars.
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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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The stars of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" were among the fan favorites at the 34th annual People's Choice Awards on Tuesday, as CBS scrapped its usual live broadcast of the show in favor of a strike-friendly, pre-taped program.
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Striking film and TV writers in America have decided not to picket next month's Grammy awards.
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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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The Academy Awards have vowed that the show will go on, strike or no strike. Herewith, one rendition of what Jon Stewart's Oscar monologue could be on Feb. 24:
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SEATTLE - Dozens of ABC affiliates across the country chose not to air the Academy Award-winning film &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; Thursday night fearing backlash from the Federal Communications Commission.
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LOS ANGELES  - Forget Oscar weather vane. The thing the Golden Globes might be best known for -- the parties -- are in jeopardy. With less than a week before the January 13 awards show, no invitations had been sent for any of the bashes.
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Despite the Golden Globe Awards being reduced from a swanky dinner party to a no-frills news conference because of the writers' strike, gift suites remain in full swag.