37th Producers Guild Awards (PGA): ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes Top Film Prize
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has won the top prize at the 37th Annual Producers Guild Awards, adding to its wins at Critics Choice, the Golden Globes and BAFTA.
It’s been a much-debated race so far between One Battle and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, with some people thinking the latter could pull out a win tonight during the middle of Oscar voting. PGA winner voting ended all the way back on February 3, the same crossover as DGA, where Anderson also won. Tomorrow, the two will have their final head to head at SAG before the Oscars in two weeks.
Since the expansion of Oscars’ Best Picture in 2009, where the PGA also expanded their lineup, the two have matched up all but three times: 2015’s The Big Short, 2016’s La La Land and 2019’s 1917.
In his acceptance speech, One Battle director Anderson talked about the recent Paramount hostile takeover of Warner Bros, which housed and distributed his PGA winner.
“Whatever the road lies ahead — your work this year is so spectacular. I share this with you. Long may you wave, whatever the future holds. It is one battle after another,” Anderson said. He praised producers Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy for championing original material, including fellow Warner Bros PGA nominees Coogler and Zach Cregger (Weapons).
De Luca and Abdy deserve “to get an award for enduring a lot — a lot — on the road to get these films made,” Anderson said. “You kept your head down and you protected me. You protected Ryan. You protected Zach. That’s real producing. Letting us do our work and leading us here.”
Susan Sprung, CEO of the PGA, opened the event mentioning the U.S. military action that has unfolded over the past day.
“The events of the past 24 hours have us all concerned,” Sprung told the crowd at the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel. “Even as we go about our lives, even as we celebrate, forever, we pray for peace.”
The Pitt, The Studio and Adolescence continued their dominance which began at the Primetime Emmy Awards last September with wins for episodic drama, comedy and limited series, respectively.
From Jayne Mansfield to John Candy to Pee-Wee Herman celebrity docs swept the TV wins tonight and some in true upset fashion. John Candy: I Like Me won Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures over the likes of HBO’s Mountainhead and Peacock’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy while Mariska Hargitay’s My Mom Jayne, about her ill-fated actress mother Jayne Mansfield, toppled documentary feature Oscar nominees The Perfect Neighbor and Mr Nobody Against Putin.
Mara Brock Akil (The Game, Girlfriends, Being Mary Jane) received the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television. Blumhouse horror producer Jason Blum (Get Out, M3GAN, The Black Phone) received the Milestone Award. Amy Pascal received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. Pascal’s films have include the Tom Holland era of Spider-Man live action films, the Spider-Verse animated trilogy, The Post, Little Women, Challengers and Jay Kelly.
The Children’s, Sports, Shortform and Innovation categories were announced on Thursday, where Sesame Street, Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence and Formula 1: Drive to Survive were the winners, along with the PGA Innovation Award going to The Wizard of Oz at Sphere, the AI-ification of the the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz.
Also on Thursday, Lydia Dean Pilcher received the Vance Van Petten Entrepreneurial Spirit Producing Award, and Jessica Li was announced as the recipient of the Debra Hill Fellowship supporting emerging producers.
Here is the complete list of winners.
THEATRICAL
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Nominees: Bugonia (Focus Features), F1 (Apple Original Films), Frankenstein (Netflix), Hamnet, (Focus Features) Marty Supreme, (A24), Sentimental Value (NEON), Sinners (Warner Bros), Train Dreams, (Netflix) Weapons (Warner Bros)
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures: My Mom Jayne (HBO Max)
Other nominees: The Alabama Solution (HBO Max), Cover-Up (Netflix), Mr Nobody Against Putin (Kino Lorber), Ocean with David Attenborough (NatGeo), The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix), The Tale of Silyan (NatGeo)
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
Other nominees: The Bad Guys 2 (Universal Pictures), Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (Crunchyroll/Sony Pictures), Elio (Pixar), Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney)
TELEVISION
Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama: The Pitt (HBO Max)
Other nominees: Andor (Disney+); The Diplomat (Netflix); The Pitt (HBO Max); Pluribus (AppleTV) Severance (AppleTV); The White Lotus (HBO)
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy: The Studio (AppleTV)
Other nominees: The Bear (FX); Hacks (HBO Max), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu); South Park (Comedy Central)
David L. Solder Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television: Adolescence (Netflix)
Other nominees: The Beast in Me (Netflix); Black Mirror (Netflix); Black Rabbit (Netflix); Dying for Sex (FX)
Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures: John Candy: I Like Me (Prime Video)
Nominees: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock); The Gorge (AppleTV); Mountainhead (HBO); Nonnas (Netflix)
Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
Other nominees: The Daily Show (Comedy Central); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC); Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) ; SNL 50: The Anniversary Special (NBC)
Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television: The Traitors (Peacock)
Other nominees: The Amazing Race (CBS); Jeopardy! (CBS/Sony Pictures); RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV); Top Chef (Bravo)
Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television: Pee-Wee as Himself
Other nominees: aka Charlie Sheen, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, Mr. Scorsese, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Award for Outstanding Sports Program: Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Other nominees: 100 Foot Wave, Big Dreams: The Little League World Series 2024, Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills, Surf Girls: International
Award for Outstanding Children’s Program: Sesame Street
Other nominees: LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past, Phineas and Ferb, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical, SpongeBob SquarePants
Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program: Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence
Other nominees: The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains, Hacks: Bit By Bit, Overtime with Bill Maher, The White Lotus: Unpacking the Episode
PGA Innovation Award: The Wizard of Oz at Sphere
Other nominees: ASTEROID, Big Wave: No Room for Error, D-Day: The Camera Soldier, territory
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