After an unprecedented summer season of strikes, the ripple results proceed to hit the 2023-24 awards season.
In a flipping of the script, the WGA Awards now might be held on April 14 – greater than a month after the Academy Awards. In a press release to Deadline, the WGA West and East pointed to their almost five-month-long labor motion as the reason for the dramatic shift.
“This yr’s Writers Guild Awards are being held in April to permit for a full awards submission course of to happen after the strike,” the WGAW and WGAE mentioned in a press release to Deadline. See the guild’s full awards timeline beneath.
Additionally uncommon is the truth that the Writers Guild Awards nominations received’t be introduced till February 21, almost a month after the Academy Awards noms are revealed. A lot for the Oscars‘ Tailored and Unique Screenplay classes probably being affected by the WGA noms. The 2023 WGA Awards had been handed out March 5 — per week earlier than the ninety fifth annual Oscars. All the pieces All over the place All at As soon as and Girls Speaking took the WGA’s respective Unique and Tailored Screenplay trophies, with each later triumphing on the Academy Awards.
Elsewhere among the many guilds, the SAG Awards had been set for February 24 almost six months in the past, however that was some eight weeks earlier than SAG-AFTRA went on strike towards the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers. Issues doubtless will come up because the actors union labor motion continues — particularly for the reason that thirtieth annual SAG Awards is ready to stream on Netflix, one of many corporations SAG-AFTRA is picketing. That date is holding agency for now, although.
The DGA Awards stay set for February 10, and the Producers Guild Awards might be introduced about two weeks afterward the twenty fifth.
Listed here are the important thing dates for the 2024 Writers Guild Awards
Wednesday, November 1:
Submissions Open in ALL Classes: Screenplays (Unique, Tailored, Documentary), Collection (Drama, Comedy, Restricted, New), TV-Radio/Audio-New Media Scripts and Paul Selvin Award (WGAW)
Friday, December 22:
Deadline for submissions: Collection (Drama, Comedy, New, Restricted); TV-Radio/Audio-New Media Scripts and Paul Selvin Award (WGAW)
Monday, January 22:
Preliminary Collection (Drama, Comedy, New, Restricted) and Screenplay (Unique and Tailored) on-line voting begins
Friday, February 9:
Deadline for Preliminary Collection (Drama, Comedy, New, Restricted) and Screenplay (Unique and Tailored)
Wednesday, February 21:
Screenplay (Unique, Tailored, Documentary) and Tv, New Media, Information, Radio/Audio, and Promotional Writing Nominations Introduced
Friday, February 23:
Remaining Collection & Screenplay on-line voting begins
Thursday, March 7:
Past Phrases: Writers Guild Awards-nominated screenwriters panel
Friday, March 8:
Deadline for Remaining Collection & Screenplay on-line voting
TBA:
“And the Nominees Are…” Writers Guild Awards nominees panel
Sunday, April. 14:
76th annual Writers Guild Awards
Pete Hammond contributed to this report.
