Some post-writers strike sentiments lingered as Hollywood celebrated the 80th Annual Academy Awards last night. Variety reports that many like NBC prexy Jeff Zucker, acknowledged the celebratory feel caused by the Oscars happening and the strike ending saying “I think everybody was ready for a party, and to enjoy the chance to come and to have a grand time.”

Others still had left-over thoughts from the recent strike events such as best actor nominee George Clooney who repeated his strong wish that the Screen Actors Guild help the rank and file in his union stay employed by starting talks as soon as possible. “There’s no resolution yet,” he said. “We’re talking to all parties. We’re hoping to avoid a strike.”

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The WGA strike wages on, and the Golden Globes are its latest victim. With SAG joining in solidarity with the writers, the show would be starless and noticeably dimmer. Instead it seems we will get a newscast of sorts of the results - maybe they’ll still show some montages? I really love the montages…I guess I’ll just have to wait for the Oscars and hope all is fixed by then so I can see Daniel Day-Lewis win for his amazing performance in There Will Be Blood. In other WGA news, another victim to the strike are the folks who work on the TV shows that aren’t being shot right now. Warner just announced that it intends to layoff 1,000 workers although they hope that eventually they’ll be able to hire them back.If you want to get involved and support the writers in a fun and creative way click to read more below the fold:

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The Screen Actors Guild president, Alan Rosenberg, has announced today that as a result of the WGA’s plans to picket the Golden Globe awards, none of the 70 actors nominated for GG awards this year will attend the January 13th event.

“After considerable outreach to Golden Globe actor nominees and their representatives over the past several weeks, there appears to be unanimous agreement that these actors will not cross WGA picket lines to appear on the Golden Globe Awards as acceptors or presenters,” he said. “We applaud our members for this remarkable show of solidarity for striking Writers Guild of America writers.”

For further developments on the WGA strike, click here.