Writer-Strike forces Oscar to come up with ‘contingency plan’
Sid Ganis, head of AMPAS
Sid Ganis, chief honcho for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announced today that Oscar has a contingency plan that includes history, film clips and out-of-the-ordinary concepts for the awards show if the writer’s strike is not resolved in time for the telecast.The February 24th telecast is only a few weeks away and the writer’s strike is still not over, therefore Ganis says there will be two shows planned: “The show we would love to do and … a show that we would prefer not to do.” He continued with:
“We have an obligation to the art form to present the Oscars, so we have to deal with the possibility of not being able to do the show because of pickets or agreements not being concluded”
Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards were announced last week. In past years, presenters were announced one-by-one before or shortly after the nominations, but none have been named so far for this year’s telecast. Final ballots were mailed today to the 5,829 voting members of the academy. They are due back at Price Waterhouse by February 19th.
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