WGA Awards Set For A Month After Oscars As Strikes Continue To Shake Up Awards Season

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After an unprecedented summer of strikes, the ripple effects continue to hit the 2023-24 awards season. In a flipping of the script, the WGA Awards now will be held on April 14 – more than a month after the Academy Awards.

In a statement to Deadline, the WGA West and East pointed to their nearly five-month-long labor action as the cause of the dramatic shift. “This year’s Writers Guild Awards are being held in April to allow for a full awards submission process to occur after the strike,” the WGAW and WGAE said in a statement to Deadline.

See the guild’s full awards timeline below. Also unusual is the fact that the Writers Guild Awards nominations won’t be announced until February 21, nearly a month after the Academy Awards noms are revealed.

So much for the Oscars‘ Adapted and Original Screenplay categories potentially being affected by the WGA noms. The 2023 WGA Awards were handed out March 5 — a week before the 95th annual Oscars.