The Writers Guild of America announced that it won’t allow its members to write for the Golden Globes or the Academy Awards, according to a person close to the guild.

The board of directors refused for an interim agreement that will permit scribes to write the material for the next month's 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

The writers’ strike entered now in its seventh week and there is no sign of ending it, after the talks from December 7 ended in insults.

The strike has now the support from the Screen Actors guild, meaning that the presence of the actors and presenters at the awards could be affected, the Associated Press informs.

The host of the 80th Academy Awards ceremony, due for February 24, will be Jon Stewart, a member of the writers’ guild. Theoretically, Stewart will be prohibited to write his own material if the strike will continue.  

The Golden Globe awards will air live on January 13, on NBC.

The guild released on Monday a letter in which it refused the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s request for a waiver. The letter said that this won’t make any good for the guild’s battle with the studios.

WGA West president Patric Verrone said in a letter to the Hollywood Foreign Press and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: "Writers are engaged in a crucial struggle to achieve a collective bargaining agreement that will protect their compensation and intellectual property rights now and in the future,” E!online.com.

In another letter from the guild to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, it has refused the using of clips from past ceremonies to be shown at the 2008 show.

The Globe organization released a statement saying: "The Golden Globe Awards, which has a long and friendly relationship with the Writers Guild of America, is obviously disappointed that the WGA denied its request for a waiver.” But at the same time the statement said that the organization was "encouraged by the fact that the WGA has announced that it plans to negotiate agreements with independent production companies" and that it would try to reach an agreement for the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

The guild informed its members that it will attempt to negotiate individually with the studios.

The strike caused the shutting down of many TV series and forced networks to enter reruns, triggering a decrease in ratings.