LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14, 2008
Will Oscars Go Way Of Golden Globes?
Writers' Strike Scraps Globes Ceremony; Academy Awards Show Slated For Next Month
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"Inside Edition" correspondent Jim Moret prepares to announce winners of the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13, 2008 at a press conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Workers walk by a satellite truck outside the Beverly Hilton prior to the 65th Annual Golden Globes, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Jess Cagle on The Early Show Monday (CBS/EARLY SHOW)
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Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in "Atonement." (AP Photo/Focus Features)
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That's exactly what happened Sunday night, when the winners were announced by TV entertainment journalists during what amounted to a news conference. No glamour, no glitz, as the stars stayed away due to the ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America.
And that's got everybody's tongues wagging in Hollywood about next month's Academy Awards ceremony: Was the non-star studded Globes presentation a sign of Oscar times to come?
Early Show contributor and People magazine Executive Editor Jess Cagle told co-anchor Julie Chen Monday, "Usually, 'the Globes' is this parade of glamour and stars, and everybody seems to be having a good time because, frankly, all the stars sit at these tables, you know, at the Beverly Hilton and get drunk and then make funny speeches and make fools of themselves. That's what you always look for. Plus, there's always the red carpet before. None of that happened. Nobody was there. ... It just wasn't the same."
The Globes are often seen as indicators of Oscars favorites and, says Cagle, winning a Globe "certainly puts the movie or the actor on the Oscar voters' radar, but without all the press, let's say, Johnny Depp gets (for winning the Globe for Best Actor in a musical or comedy for his role in "Sweeney Todd") by walking the red carpet, etc., it diminishes him a little bit in people's minds."Photos: See Who Won A Golden Globe
Cagle says "no one really knows" the fate of the Oscars broadcast. "It's all up in the air. No one ever thought the strike would kill "the Golden Globes." So, really the Oscars are up for grabs.
To see a complete list of Globes winners and nominees, click here.
"There are many different scenarios. Maybe the strike will be over by Feb. 24 and the Oscars will go on as planned. I think that is not very likely. Another likely scenario is that the Oscars get postponed until the end of March, and everybody just hopes that the strike is settled by then."
Ironically, Cagle observed, films such as "Sweeney Todd" and "Atonement," which captured Globes, were both big winners and big losers, since winning was worth celebrating, but both could have used the help at the box office that a typical Globes presentation would have given them.Photos: Red Carpet Rewind
"They got a little bit of press, obviously, because they won, but nothing like if the show had gone on," Cagle said.
He also cited an estimate that the Los Angeles economy lost as much as $100 million when the usual Globes ceremony didn't happen, with all the businesses that benefit from such an event and related parties feeling the pinch -- businesses such as hotels, restaurants, caterers, limos, attire, cosmetics, etc.
"That's been the problem with the strike," Cagle noted. "The producers and the writers, I'm not saying they're not suffering, but it's really the people in the service industry who are really suffering."
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- The Golden Globes were a stupid idea anyways. And I haven''t watched the Academy Awards since the mid 1990s.
CBS should have been pleased with the death of the Golden Globes.. the Comanche Moon miniseries got 15 million viewers.. about 10 million more than it would have gotten had the Golden Globes Award show aired as planned. And NBC, which should have had its biggest audience of the winter? 5 million viewers on its pseudo-newsmagazine Dateline, which announced the results. - Reply to this comment
