Loading ...WGA and AMPTP negotiators return to the table.
Golden Globes Winners’ List
January 14, 2008 - 9:30 am
I could rant on about the Golden Globes (or lack thereof), but when it comes down to it, you just want to know who won, right? Right.
On behalf of the winners, I would like to thank God/agents/producers and you at home!
Actors and actresses already get too much exposure and credit for a job well done - bring on a WGA-free Oscars, I say.
2008 Golden Globe Winners:
Best Actress, Drama - Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Best Song - “Guaranteed,” Into the Wild
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy- Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Best Original Screenplay - Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Best Actress, Drama - Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Original Score - Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Best Director Motion Picture - Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy - Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Foreign Picture - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor, Drama - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Picture, Drama - Atonement
Will the Academy Awards Suffer from WGA Strike?
January 9, 2008 - 12:30 pm
We recently chimed in with our thoughts on the truncated Golden Globes, stating that the awards show is barely relevant to even the most hardcore pop-culture follower. The Academy Awards, on the other hand, are a far larger affair.
With the Golden Globes being scaled down to a high-society press conference, is the axe looming over the Oscars?
The 80th Annual Academy Awards are scheduled to be broadcast live on February 24, with the nominees announced on January 22, less than two weeks away.
Under the usual circumstances, a staff of writers would be knee-deep in zingers come January 22 - but no dice this year, with all this WGA strike hullabaloo.
Even Bruce Davis, the Academy’s executive director, doesn’t sound very optimistic about the shows’ outcome: “I’m not going to cite odds, but our hope is we can work something out or that the strike is resolved in time.” Ouch.
Has the WGA finally broke down the corporate heads? Quite possibly: Jon Stewart is scheduled to revisit his role as host at the Oscars, but in lieu of recent events may or may not follow through with his part of the bargain. If that’s the case, the Academy has no host, let alone a shoe-in ready to fill Stewart’s spot.
This situation is sticky. A resolution is in order, methinks…
No Scribes for Globes and Oscars
December 18, 2007 - 12:30 pm
With the writer’s strike still going strong, the WGA has denied invitations to prepare material for the Golden Globes on January 13 and the Oscars in February. If both events didn’t seem crappy enough last time, they should be craptacular this time around.
(See what happens when you don’t get pros to make jokes for you?)
This situation raises a red flag for the Oscars in particular. With Jon Stewart returning as host it’s assumed that he will have to “wing it” without any writer’s assistance. Sure, Stewart can handle a fair share of improvisation - but an entire show? That’s a tall order. Read More »
Roger A. Trevanti Explains the AMPTP’s New Proposal
December 13, 2007 - 11:15 am
Roger A. Trevanti from the AMPTP responds to the Writers Strike.
Way to tell it how it is, Trevanti!
Carson Daly Asks Friends to Phone In Jokes…Just Like He Does Every Night
November 28, 2007 - 12:30 pm
Carson Daly has committed the ultimate crime: resuming production on Last Call with Carson Daly.
Daly has also defied the ongoing writer’s strike - but that’s hardly his biggest offense.
Does anybody really watch Last Call with Carson Daly? It’s on at some ungodly hour next to weight-loss and fly-fishing gear infomercials…and since when did Daly become a source of comedy? The show has been on the air since 2002 and I still don’t know one soul who watches it.
Since his writing staff is M.I.A. Daly has solicited outside help from family and friends, asking them in an email to submit him jokes that will be used in an upcoming skit.
Call Carson Daly’s joke hotline (818-260-5107) and leave the stupidest knee-slapper you can muster - no matter how bad the joke is, it can’t be any worse of a joke than his career has become.
