The 35th Producers Guild of America Awards have awarded Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures to Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Nolan.
With the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Critics Choice and SAG Award in hand (as well as a DGA win for Nolan), Oppenheimer is the overwhelming favorite for Oscar’s Best Picture in two weeks. Since the expanded Best Picture lineup only 2012’s Argo had accomplished that level of a precursor sweep.
The ceremony was held tonight at the Fairmount Century Plaza in Los Angeles, honoring the best produced film and television of 2023.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was the winner for animated film, after securing the Annie Award and Critics Choice.
For the first time in the history of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards, two international titles have been nominated for the top PGA prize – Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest. Also for the first time ever since the expansion of the Oscar Best Picture lineup, both the PGA and the Academy matched up exactly.
In television winner for episodic drama was the fourth and final season of Succession and The Bear‘s second season was the winner for episodic comedy. Beef took the award for limited or anthology series.
Earlier this week, the team for Body of Mine won the PGA Innovation Award, and the team for Succession: Controlling the Narrative won for outstanding shortform program. The guild also awarded the team behind Beckham (season one) with the outstanding sports program award and the Sesame Street (season five, episode three) team with outstanding children’s program.
PGA and Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro presented the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures to Martin Scorsese, a nominee tonight for Killers of the Flower Moon, and recalls an early meeting he had with Scorsese not long after his first film Cronos had come out. “I’m sure Marty does not remember,” del Toro said. Scorsese recalled attending the Screen Producers Guild Milestone Award Dinner from March 7, 1965 where Alfred Hitchcock was receiving the Milestone Award from a dais led by James Stewart and Cary Grant. “One wants to pinch himself to be sure it isn’t being awarded posthumously,” said Hitchcock.
The David O. Selznick award highlights a producer’s outstanding body of work in motion pictures and has gone to directors like Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and George Lucas, as well as producers like Barbara Broccoli, Mary Parent, Brian Grazer, and Kathleen Kennedy.
The Norman Lear Award went to iconic producer Gail Berman, former FOX president of entertainment under the era of American Idol and Malcolm in the Middle and behind CW hits like Roswell and Angel. Berman was introduced by Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of one of Berman’s key productions, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. “When I tell you that not a single person on this Earth wanted to buy this television show I mean not a single person on this Earth wanted to buy this television show,” she said in her speech, regarding Buffy.
Ryan Coogler presented MACRO CEO Charles D. King with the Milestone Award. King has produced such films as Sorry to Bother You, Mudbound, Fences and received a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Judas and the Black Messiah. His documentary series Dear Mama won the Spirit Award earlier today for Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series.
Here is the complete list of winners of the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards.
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television
Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
Previously announced winners:
The PGA Innovation Award
Outstanding Sports Program
Outstanding Children’s Program
Outstanding Short-Form Program
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