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Writers Guild of America Awards Shifts 2024 Ceremony to April Post-Oscars Due to Strikes

April 2024 event will honor scribes for film, TV, radio, news/audio, promotional and new media as prolonged SAG-AFTRA strikes disrupt typical awards season scheduling.

  • The Writers Guild of America Awards, originally scheduled to take place weeks before the Oscars, will occur on April 24, 2024, after the Oscars due to ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes and negotiations with AMPTP.
  • The change in scheduling is unusual and is intended to allow for a complete awards submission process to occur post-strike.
  • All submissions for awards categories, including screenplays, series, TV-radio/audio-new media scripts, are open from November 1 till December 22, 2023.
  • The deadline for preliminary series and screenplay online voting begins on January 22, 2024, meanwhile, the deadline for the same is on February 9, 2024.
  • The actual awards ceremony, the 76th Annual Writers Guild Awards, will be held on Sunday, April 14, 2024.
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