36th Producers Guild (PGA) Awards Nominations: ‘Anora,’ ‘Emilia Pérez’ Make the Cut, ‘Nickel Boys’ Snubbed, and the ‘September 5’ Surprise

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Today, the Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced the nominees in the Motion Pictures and Television categories for the 36th Annual Producers Guild Awards where top Oscar contenders like Anora (NEON), Emilia Pérez (Netflix), Conclave (Focus Features) and The Brutalist (A24), but also found room for the little-seen September 5 (Paramount Pictures) over the likes of Sing Sing (A24), Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM) and Challengers (Amazon MGM).

Joining those five films as this year’s PGA nominees are A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures), Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros), A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures), The Substance (MUBI) and Wicked (Universal Pictures). All 10 films received Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture, where The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez triumphed. At Critics Choice, which has delayed their live televised show twice due to the Los Angeles fires, have 8/10 crossover with PGA, opting for Nickel Boys and Sing Sing over A Real Pain and September 5. Just yesterday, BAFTA spoke and nominated Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave and Emilia Pérez.

Last year, PGA and Oscar’s Best Picture went 10/10 for the first time ever. When the Academy expanded its best picture lineup from five to 10 nominees in 2009, the PGA followed suit. Only three times have the PGA and the Oscars matched were during the sliding scale years between 2011-2021 when the Oscars nominated either eight or nine movies: 2016, 2018, and 2019. In the years of a solid 10, they missed two or more. Two years prior saw three PGA titles – Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverGlass Onion: A Knives Out Story, and The Whale – miss out on Best Picture to All Quiet on the Western FrontTriangle of Sadness and Women Talking.

The Latvian Oscar entry Flow earned a spot among the animated nominees, becoming only the second non-English/foreign production to be nominated here since the inception of the category in 2005. Last year’s eventual The Boy and the Heron was the first and while bested by the sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the Studio Ghibli film won the Oscar.

In television drama the nominees are Bad Sisters (AppleTV+), The Diplomat (Netflix), Fallout (Prime Video), Shōgun (FX) and Slow Horses (AppleTV+) while comedy made room for Abbott Elementary (ABC), The Bear (FX), Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO), Hacks (MAX) and Only Murders in the Building (Hulu).

Earlier this week, the Producers Guild announced a partnership with the Entertainment Community Fund to establish a dedicated fund supporting producers of film, television and emerging media affected by the fires. The Guild is contributing a portion of the net proceeds from the Producers Guild Awards to the fund. In addition to the Guild’s contribution, members are also donating. Together, $300,000 has already been committed.

If there is a producer in need of financial assistance from the devastation caused by the fires, they can provide their contact information and eligibility criteria will be sent: https://producersguild.tfaforms.net/5133847  

For anyone able to contribute to supporting producers who are struggling financially due to the fires, a donation site has been started here: entertainmentcommunity.org/2025CAfiresPGA 

Producers will come together to raise awareness for the fund, celebrate our nominees and announce winners at the PGA Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.

Nominees for Theatrical Motion Pictures, Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, Television Series/Specials, Limited/Anthology Series Television, Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures and Documentary Motion Picture are as follows:

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

A Real Pain

September 5

The Substance

Wicked

Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

Flow

Inside Out 2

Moana 2

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama

Bad Sisters

The Diplomat

Fallout

Shōgun

Slow Horses

Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy

Abbott Elementary

The Bear

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Hacks

Only Murders in the Building

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television

Baby Reindeer

FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans

The Penguin

Ripley

True Detective: Night Country

Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures

Carry On

The Greatest Night in Pop

The Killer

Rebel Ridge

Unfrosted

Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television

30 for 30

Conan O’Brien Must Go

The Jinx – Part Two

STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces

Welcome to Wrexham

Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television

Ali Wong: Single Lady

The Daily Show

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Saturday Night Live

Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television

The Amazing Race

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Top Chef

The Traitors

The Voice

The following nominees were previously announced.

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture

Gaucho Gaucho

Mediha 

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

Porcelain War

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 

We Will Dance Again 

The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program

Avatar: The Last Airbender 

Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock 

Percy Jackson and the Olympians 

Sesame Street 

SpongeBob SquarePants 

The Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program

The Crown: Farewell To A Royal Epic 

Hacks: Bit By Bit

The Penguin: Inside Gotham

Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime 

Shōgun – The Making of Shōgun 

The Award for Outstanding Sports Program

Formula 1: Drive to Survive 

Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants 

Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend

Simone Biles Rising 

Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics 

The PGA Innovation Award

Critterz

Emperor

Impulse: Playing with Reality

Orbital

The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu

What If…? – An Immersive Story

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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