No-Writers Oscar Plan Step One: The Internet
Filed under: Awards, Home Entertainment, Oscar Watch
Remember my recent post about how the Oscars are still a go, no matter what happens with the WGA strike? The Academy was considering two options for the show, which will go on next month, February 24. Should the strike end, there would be the regular show that we've all grown accustomed to. However, should it continue, they were planning an alternative -- details of which were being kept secret.Me, I was hoping for an entire Oscars ceremony mash-up. It would take a heck of a lot of time and effort, but it would be awesome to see the old, great hosts, the clips, and then faux acceptance speeches made from previously-recorded media. I doubt that will happen, but here is what will -- The Hollywood Reporter has posted that for the first time, Oscar nominations will screen live on their website, Oscar.com. This will be followed by expanded online coverage that will include "an Oscar prediction game and an Oscar widget that can be embedded on social networking sites." Hello, Facebook!
Sure, this isn't word on the actual ceremony, but I imagine we can look forward to more web content as the 24th moves ever closer. Stars won't be crossing the picket lines, but could the Academy be planning an event where stars and fans all sign onto the web? Me, I'd much rather see Johnny, Brad, Cate, and the rest of the folks via webcam from their homes than some outfit and jewelry that could feed a country for a year, but maybe that's just me.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-20-2008 @ 4:43PM
Philip said...
SAG must be the only trick WGA has left in the bag. Now that the DGA has come to an agreement (5 months ahead of a need for it) I'm guessing the WGA will be under a lot of pressure internally to get something done. And to be fair about it, the WGA has done nothing but put on a clinic about how NOT to run a strike. Trying to negotiate through the media, comparing the strike to a civil rights struggle, asking Letterman to run those stupid pro-WGA segments that make zero people laugh (like the rest of his show, and that's WITH writers mind you), and the public posturing... The public has seen right through all of it. Major unions don't behave this way. From the airline pilots, to the stewardesses, to steel workers, even to truckers, when you want a deal to get done, you don't apply firm pressure through calling each other names. I'm of the opinion, if SAG had decided three weeks ago to call off their friendly Fellowship of the Guilds, the writers would be at the negotiating table.
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1-20-2008 @ 5:50PM
Marty said...
WGA has lost a lot of credibility through this tarnished campaign. Writers are now seen as greedy prima donnas and they will take years to gain any credibility. Heck, the major studios have more credibility now that they agreed to a deal with DGA.
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1-22-2008 @ 11:51AM
Reese Thompson said...
They don't need the entire Writer's Guild to pen the lame one-liners the presenters are forced to utter.
Who's the fat dude from "Hollwood Squares?"
I thought he wrote 90% of those groaners anyway.
He should simply use an alias.
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