The Golden Globe Awards have come and gone with barely a whisper, except from depressingly enthusiastic media journalists who were falling all over themselves with excitement at the prospect of being on TV. But, to be fair, the Golden Globes have always been kind of a dud, occupying a nebulous funnel of quasi-respectability somewhere in between the Emmys and the Peoples' Choice Awards. The big question on everyone's lips, with the Writer's Guild of America strike entering its third month, is: will the Oscars be cancelled?

MSN seems to think they just might. With the Golden Globes allowed to rot on the vine, their analysis is that it's more likely than not that if a deal isn't reached, the producers won't be willing to risk boycotts by big stars and put on the sort of joyless press conference they did on Sunday. While industry spokesmen are wearing their hopeful faces — AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis says production plans for the Academy Awards are proceeding as usual, and "at this stage we are still making our plan as normal" — insiders are less so, and there's a more than average degree of confidence that the 80th annual Academy Awards presentation will be the biggest non-event since the 1994 World Series.

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