(Tom) Hanks urges end to writers' strike [View All]

Source: Reuters

By Michael Davidson

LONDON - Actor Tom Hanks is keen to see the Oscar ceremony held as usual, and urged studios to return to the negotiating table to end a writers' strike that threatens to disrupt the climax of Hollywood's awards season.

The Golden Globe ceremony scheduled for Sunday has already been scrapped, and will be replaced by a news conference few stars are likely to attend. The People's Choice Awards were also scaled back and subsequently bombed in the television ratings.

Now all eyes are on the Academy Awards, the movie world's biggest night, which are due to take place on February 24.

"The show must go on, that is one of the tenets of everything," Hanks told Reuters in London.


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