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2012 Producers Guild Awards Nominations for Film and Television Announced; Nominees include THE ARTIST and GAME OF THRONES

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 3rd, 2012 at 9:42 am

The Producers Guild of America has announced the nominees for their 2012 awards.  The PGA chose ten nominees this year for Best picture, but the Oscars will choose between five and ten.  The PGA nominees include the usual suspects (The Artist, The Descendants, Hugo) as wellas movies that have stagnated in the awards race or never really got it into (Moneyball, The Help, The Ides of March).  If you want to get a good prediction for the Best Picture Oscar, the PGAs can be a good barometer.  Follow the PGA choice to the Director’s Guild of America choice to Best Director and finally to Best Picture.

Among the TV nominees were 30 Rock, Modern Family, Game of Thrones, and Mad Men.  I’m going to be generous and assume Breaking Bad was ruled ineligible and that’s why it wasn’t nominated.  Hit the jump for the full list of nominees.

Producers Guild of America Announces Best Documentary Nominees

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 2nd, 2011 at 9:43 am

The Producers Guild of America has announced their nominees for Best Documentary of 2011. When it comes to feature film, the PGA and the Oscars almost always coincide, but the Academy overlooked some critically acclaimed film when it came to making their 15-film shortlist.  Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest and Senna didn’t make the Academy’s shortlist, but the PGA has shown a little more sense and nominated these films for Best Documenatry.  They’ve also shown love to Bill Cunningham New York, Project Nim, and The Union. Right now I’m rooting for Project Nim, but keep in mind that the only other film I’ve seen on this list is Senna (which is also awards-worthy).

Hit the jump for the full press release.  Television series nominations for the 2012 Producers Guild Awards will be announced December 7, 2011.  All other nominations for the 2012 Producers Guild Award categories will be announced January 3, 2012, along with the individual producers.  The winners will be announced on January 21, 2012.

Producers Guild of America to Honor Stan Lee

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 9th, 2011 at 9:25 am

The Producers Guild of America will honor comic book legend Stan Lee with the 2012 Vanguard Award.  For those who don’t know Lee, he co-created the popular superhero comics Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, The Avengers, Silver Surfer, and Dr. Strange.  You may also recognize him as the elderly gentleman who keeps popping up in Marvel movies.  Lee has become an icon/mascot to the comic book world with his “cool-granddad” demeanor and even his own catchphrase (“Excelsior!”).  But more importantly, his characters have netted producers and studios boatloads of cash and I suppose the award is a nice way of saying “Thanks for the billion-dollar properties.”

Hit the jump for the press release.  Lee will be presented with the award at the 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 21, 2012.

THE KING’S SPEECH Upsets THE SOCIAL NETWORK at the 2011 Producers Guild Awards

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: January 23rd, 2011 at 9:02 am

It seemed like The Social Network had a clear path to the Academy Awards, but the dastardly Producers’ Guild of America may prove an obstacle.  The King’s Speech took home Best Picture at the Producers Guild Awards last night in a notable upset.  Over the past 20 years the Producers Guild and the Oscars have agreed on 13 of 20 Best Picture winners.

Everything else went down about as expected for both film and television.  Toy Story 3 won Best Animated Feature, and Waiting for “Superman” was named Best Documentary.  In TV, the PGA honored Mad Men, Modern Family, The Pacific, The Colbert Report, and Deadliest Catch.  Hit the jump for the full list of winners.

Producers Guild Award Nominees Announced

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 4th, 2011 at 7:50 am

The Producers Guild of America have announced their nominees for the 2011 Producers Guild Awards.  The nominees for Best Motion Picture are 127 Hours, Black Swan, Inception, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, The Town, and True Grit. Notably absent from their selections is Winter’s Bone.  With the exception of The Town, I think you’re looking at the ten Oscar nominees for Best Picture (I think Winter’s Bone will ultimately nab the 10th slot).

Hit the jump for the full press release, which also includes nominees for Best Animated Film, Best Documentary (no Exit Through the Gift Shop—boo), and various television categories.  Winners will be announced January 22nd.  Judd Apatow will host the awards ceremony.

Producers Guild of America Announce Best Documentary Nominees

by Ramses Flores    Posted: December 3rd, 2010 at 5:14 pm

The Producers Guild of America (aka the PGA) has announced which documentaries have been nominated for the Best Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture award.  The list is mainly made up of the usual suspects with early award season favorites Waiting for ‘Superman’. Inside Job, The Tillman Story, and Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer all receiving a nomination from the guild.  Lesser known documentaries Smash His Camera and Earth Made of Glass also received a nomination.   Missing from the list are some other highly acclaimed documentaries such as Exit Through the Gift Shop, Catfish, and Restrepo.  Nominations for the other PGA categories will be announced January 4, with the awards ceremony taking place on January 22.  You can hit the jump to read the full press release.

Producers Guild of America Honoring James Cameron at 22nd Annual Producers Guild Awards Ceremony

by David Lane    Posted: September 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 am

The Producers Guild of America has announced James Cameron will be honored with the 2011 Milestone Award at next January’s Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.  The Milestone Award is the Guild’s highest honor that recognizes an individual (or team) who has made historic contributions to the entertainment industry. Previous recipients are Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Howard & Brian Grazer, and Walt Disney, among others.

With how much money Cameron has made at the worldwide box office, and how he’s also developed films about ocean exploration and conservation, it’s no surprise he’s being honored with this award.  Hit the jump for the press release:

HURT LOCKER Pulls Major Upset Over AVATAR at the Producers Guild Awards

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 24th, 2010 at 7:54 pm

It seemed all sewn up that Avatar was going to win the Producers Guild of America award for Best Picture and waltz its way to the top prize at the Academy Awards.  However, the PGA actually chose the better picture and awarded The Hurt Locker with the “Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures.”  Avatar appeared to have the edge because the PGA usually respects the combo of populist support with moderate critical acclaim.  The Hurt Locker had far more critical support, but it looked like Avatar‘s insane box office total would overshadow Kathryn Bigelow’s superior film.

Instead, this year’s Oscars is back to being a horse-race between the two films and the ceremony needs all the competitive categories it can get.  Avatar will most likely win every technical category, and Jeff Bridges, Christoph Waltz, and Mo’Nique, who all won at last night’s SAG awards, should be writing their acceptance speeches if they haven’t already.  The only acting category where there’s still drama is between Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia and Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side, with Bullock taking the lead after her SAG win last night.  But now with the big prize back up for grabs, it will be interesting to see if the Academy sides with the populist support of Avatar or the near-universal critical acclaim for The Hurt Locker.  I still think Avatar will win (with Bigelow winning Best Director), but I don’t have the certainty I did last night and that makes me so damn happy.

The nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced on February 2nd.  Hit the jump for the full list of winners from tonight’s PGA Awards.

Producers Guild Award Nominations Announced; AVATAR, DISTRICT 9, and STAR TREK Among the Nominees

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 5th, 2010 at 10:17 am

Today, the Producers Guild of America announced their ten nominees for the Best Picture of the Year.  The PGA tends to line up with the Academy as far as nominees go so it’s interesting to see three sci-fi flicks on the list: Avatar, District 9, and Star Trek.  As Avatar continues to amass more cash, it looks like an Oscar contender.  District 9 still has an outside shot but it looks like its chances are starting to fade.  Star Trek is a complete dark horse in this race but a Best Picture Oscar nomination would be kind of awesome.  It should be noted that the PGA did break with the Academy last year by choosing The Dark Knight as one of their five Best Picture nominees while the Academy replaced that choice with The Reader.  The question is if the Academy will be more open to genre films, especially since the five-to-ten increase was meant to create greater diversity among nominees.  More after the jump:

Producers Guild of America to Honor John Lasseter with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award; UP’s Oscar Chances Go Up

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 21st, 2009 at 9:42 pm

Named after the legendary producer behind such films as “King Kong”, “Gone with the Wind” and “Rebecca” The David O. Selznick Achiement Award in Motion Pictures is a tremendous honor bestowed upon producers by the Producers Guild of America.  Past recipients include Saul Zaentz, Robert Evans, Roger Corman, and Jerry Bruckheimer.  But never in its history has a producer of animated films received the award…until now.

At the 21^st Annual PGA Awards Ceremony on Sunday, January 24, 2010, writer, director, producer, and Pixar COO John Lasseter will receive the David O. Selznick Achievement Award.  Hit the jump for details and what this could mean for “Up’s” chances at a Best Picture Oscar.

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