Screen Actors Guild slams film academy for Oscar tactics
NEW YORK (AP) — The Screen Actors Guild is calling on the film academy to stop preventing stars from appearing on award shows before the Oscars.
In an unusually critical statement Monday, SAG said it has received multiple reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is pressuring actors to appear only at next month's Academy Awards. Several award shows occur before that, including SAG's own Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 27.
Wow, this ugly awards season just won’t stop: SAG-AFTRA is directly accusing @TheAcademy of “graceless pressure tactics” and “self-serving intimidation” of talent to keep them from presenting/appearing on the SAG Awards if they’re also going to appear on the Oscars. Yikes! pic.twitter.com/X2D8yF6y0l
— Adam B. Vary Scared…SO VOTE, PLEASE AND THANK YOU (@adambvary) January 14, 2019
SAG says that limiting its members from other awards shows "is utterly outrageous and unacceptable." The actors union is asking the academy "to cease this inappropriate action."
Messages left with the academy were not immediately returned Monday.
Reports have suggested that producers of the currently host-less Oscars are trying to unite the "Avengers" cast for the telecast.
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