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    How to give out screenwriting awards during strike season (very carefully)

    LOS ANGELES — A strange creature, the Hollywood award in strike season. The show is going on, sort of: Audiences, critics and voters are still watching the award-worthy work even as the award-worthy creators refuse to make more of it. The for-your-consideration campaigns and journalistic access-grubbing lurch forward awkwardly even as ceremonies get pushed back. The screenwriters and actors ...
    by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times Aug 15, 2023 6 minutes
    Striking Writers Guild of America workers picket outside the Sunset Bronson Studios on May 2, 2023, in Los Angeles.

    LOS ANGELES — A strange creature, the Hollywood award in strike season.

    The show is going on, sort of: Audiences, critics and voters are still watching the award-worthy work even as the award-worthy creators refuse to make more of it. The for-your-consideration campaigns and journalistic access-grubbing lurch forward awkwardly even as ceremonies get pushed back. The screenwriters and actors remain proud of the work they've done, unproud of how they've been compensated to do it recently, and in the running to win all the same.

    This year, while contemplating navigating the bramble of union strike rules about what's promotable during Hollywood's dual writer-actor stoppages, the longtime Humanitas Prizes for screenwriters encountered an additional complication. The hotel it has recently used for the ceremony, the Beverly Hilton, has been targeted for strike by the hospitality workers of Unite Here Local 11.

    The Humanitas nonprofit, which is run by and for writers, and which annually "honors and empowers film and television writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way," was not about

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