2017 Producers Guild of America (PGA) Winners: La La Land, Stranger Things, Atlanta Triumph
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La La Land won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild of America tonight, making it only the third musical ever to do so (2001’s Moulin Rouge! and 2002’s Chicago won previously) and the only original one in the PGA’s history. The film swept the Golden Globes with a record-setting seven wins earlier this month and this week was nominated for a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations. The Producers Guild top award has matched up with Oscar’s Best Picture 19 out of 27 times so far, including eight of the last nine years. Only last year saw a weird bump when The Big Short won PGA and Spotlight won Best Picture. There seems to be very little in La La Land‘s way to scoring Oscar’s top prize next month.
Zootopia won Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures. It’s the favorite to win at the Oscars next month.
O.J. Simpson featured prominently in two expected winners tonight: O.J.: Made in America won the award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures (it’s heavily favored to win the Oscar as well) and the Emmy-winning The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story won the David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television.
Freshman show Atlanta won the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy. It just won the Comedy Golden Globe earlier this month. Another freshman show, Stranger Things, triumphed on the Drama side.
As previously announced, the PGA will also honor Loving (Stanley Kramer award), Megan Ellison (Visionary Award), Irwin Winkler (David O. Selznick Achievement award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), James L. Brooks (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television) and Tom Rothman (Milestone Award).
Here is the full list of nominees and winners from the 28th Producers Guild of America Awards:
MOTION PICTURES
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:
Arrival
Producers: Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, Aaron Ryder, David Linde
Deadpool
Producers: Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Shuler Donner
Fences
Producers: Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, Todd Black
Hacksaw Ridge
Producers: Bill Mechanic, David Permut
Hell or High Water
Producers: Carla Hacken, Julie Yorn
Hidden Figures
Producers: Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin & Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, Theodore Melfi
La La Land – WINNER
Producers: Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
Lion
Producers: Emile Sherman & Iain Canning, Angie Fielder
Manchester By the Sea
Producers: Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin Walsh
Moonlight
Producers: Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
Finding Dory
Producer: Lindsey Collins
Kubo and the Two Strings
Producers: Arianne Sutner, Travis Knight
Moana
Producer: Osnat Shurer
The Secret Life of Pets
Producers: Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy
Zootopia – WINNER
Producer: Clark Spencer
The Award Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:
Dancer
The Eagle Huntress
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America – WINNER
Tower
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The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:
Black Mirror (Season 3)
The Night Manager (Season 1)
The Night Of
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (Season 1) – WINNER
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:
Better Call Saul (Season 2)
Game of Thrones (Season 6)
House of Cards (Season 4)
Stranger Things (Season 1) – WINNER
Westworld (Season 1)
The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:
Atlanta (Season 1) – WINNER
black-ish (Season 2)
Modern Family (Season 7)
Silicon Valley (Season 3)
Veep (Season 5)
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:
30 for 30 (Season 7)
60 Minutes (Season 48, Season 49)
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown (Season 5-8)
Hamilton’s America
Making a Murderer (Season 1) – WINNER
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:
The Amazing Race (Season 27, Season 28)
American Ninja Warrior (Season 7, Season 8)
Lip Sync Battle (Season 1, Season 2)
Top Chef (Season 13)
The Voice (Season 9-11) – WINNER
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (Season 1)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Season 3) – WINNER
The Late Late Show with James Corden (Season 2)
Real Time with Bill Maher (Season 14)
Saturday Night Live (Season 42)
The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program:
Girl Meets World (Season 2, Season 3)
Octonauts (Season 4)
School of Rock (Season 1)
Sesame Street (Season 46) – WINNER
SpongeBob SquarePants (Season 9)
The Award for Outstanding Sports Program: (tie)
E:60 (2016)
The Fight Game with Jim Lampley: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Los Angeles Rams (Season 11)
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Season 22) – WINNER
VICE World of Sports (Season 1) – WINNER
The Award for Outstanding Digital Series:
30 for 30 Shorts (Season 5)
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Season 7, Season 8) – WINNER
Epic Rap Battles of History (Season 5)
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: ACADEMY (Season 1)
National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts
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