Oscars show will go on say organizers as Globes cancelled

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Academy Awards organizers expressed confidence on Tuesday that this year's Oscars would take place as planned, as Hollywood digested the bombshell cancellation of the Golden Globes.

Bruce Davis, the executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said Oscars officials were hopeful of a deal with striking writers that would allow the film industry's biggest annual awards show to go ahead.

"At this stage we are still making our plans as normal," Davis told AFP.

The feud between writers and producers claimed its highest profile casualty on Monday when it was confirmed that this weekend's Golden Globes ceremony, a key highlight of the Hollywood movie awards season, had been scrapped.

The decision to replace the...