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The guilds have spoken.

(Well, most of them, anyway.)

But what have they told us? What have the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the American Society of Cinematographers and the Art Directors Guild said with their nominations?

They’ve said many things. Some are contradictory. Some have a bearing on the Oscar race. Some don’t. Which are which may only be apparent in retrospect.

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Movieline.com recently got some web attention by writing about how the Weinstein Company was hurting its films’ awards chances by not sending out screeners to the membership of the Writers Guild of America. “Over the past few years,” Kyle Buchanan wrote, “it’s been near-impossible to score a WGA nomination without sending its membership a screener.”

Now it's really over.

A Superior Court judge has approved the Motion for Preliminary Approval of the settlement between the Writers Guild of America and class action plaintiffs led by William Richert.

That $30 million settlement followed by a few days the publication by Waxword of the full deposition of whistleblower Terri Mial.

From Sept. 3 post: 

On the heels of several announced interactive television launches, chatter spread through the business and trade press comparing these efforts to the many that have failed in the past. But for many of us in the field, these announcements are something that we believe marks a turning point.