Golden Globe Awards ceremony cancelled due to actors' boycott
8/1/2008 16:50
A boycott by nominees and presenters has forced the cancellation of the
planned Golden Globe Awards ceremony, with organizers planning instead to
announce the award winners during an hour-long news conference, organizers
announced yesterday.
"We are all very disappointed that our traditional
awards ceremony will not take place this year and that millions of viewers
worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars celebrating
2007's outstanding achievements in motion pictures and television," said Jorge
Camara, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
"We take some
comfort in knowing that this year's Golden Globe Award recipients will be
announced on the date originally scheduled," he said.
The cancellation makes
the Golden Globes the first major awards-show casualty of the Hollywood writers'
strike, which began Nov. 5 over a dispute focusing on residual payments to
writers for work distributed via the Internet, iPods, cell phones and other new
media.
Screen Actors Guild announced last week that its members appeared to
be in "unanimous agreement" that they would not cross the writers' picket line
to attend the Golden Globes ceremony, either as award nominees or
presenters.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association did not immediately
provide additional details about Sunday's announcement scheduled for 6 p.m. at
the Beverly Hilton and broadcast live by NBC News.
A red-carpet-type event
would be held immediately after the announcement, with winners being given the
chance to visit a press room for photos and interviews, according to local LA
Weekly.
The writers' strike had already forced the cancellation of the
People's Choice Awards ceremony, which was scheduled for tonight at Shrine
Auditorium in Los Angeles. Organizers canceled the red-carpet ceremony, and will
instead announce the award winners through a recorded two-hour special
television program.
Xinhua
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