United States:Hollywood announced the strike-plagued Golden Globe awards yesterday at a news conference, rather than at the usual star-filled gala.
The film and television awards, given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are a key stop on the road to the Oscars, and as a result are widely watched in the industry and by millions of television viewers.
However the screenwriters' strike derailed this year's event when the Writers Guild of America, which is embroiled in a labour dispute with major film and TV studios, threatened to picket the ceremony. As a result, A-list stars refused to attend.
Lacking star power, television network NBC and the HFPA scrapped the gala shown on TV in a roughly three-hour telecast, and in its place decided to air a one-hour news conference.
Irish interest in the awards centres on Daniel Day-Lewis (for There Will Be Blood), Saoirse Ronan (for Atonement) and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers for the TV series The Tudors.
- (Reuters)
Results of the Golden Globes are available today on The Irish Times's website, Ireland.com