‘Borat,’ ‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ ‘Sound of Metal’ score Producers Guild nominations (PGA)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank, Minari, Nomadland, One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman, Sound Of Metal and The Trial of the Chicago 7 are your 2021 Producers Guild of America nominees.
While most on this list were easy to predict, the inclusion of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm over News of the World definitely stumped most of us. The first film did not make the PGA cut but did earn an Oscar nomination for its screenplay. This season, the Borat sequel has heavily over-performed the first film both critically and in the industry, largely with its breakout star Maria Bakalova, who won the Critics Choice for Supporting Actress last night.
The producing team of Judas and the Black Messiah – Charles D. King, Ryan Coogler and Shaka King – mark the first time in PGA history that a film with all-Black producing team was nominated.
Netflix and Amazon took up six of the 10 spots, a show of streaming dominance in a year of little to no theatrical powerhouses from the major studios. One Netflix film that didn’t make the cut was Da 5 Bloods. Although it did very with Screen Actors Guild nominations, the film was snubbed entirely at the Golden Globes and needed a nomination here today to keep its head above water.
For the last two years, the PGA nominees have gone 100% with the eventual Oscar nominees for Best Picture, with the caveat that the PGA is a straight ten and AMPAS has a sliding scale. Here’s how the match-up looks since the expansion of both the PGA and Oscar.
2017 – 7/9 (Phantom Thread, Darkest Hour)
2016 – 9/9
2015 – 7/8 (Room)
2014 – 7/8 (Selma)
2013 – 8/9 (Philomena)
2012 – 8/9 (Amour)
2011 – 7/9 (The Tree of Life, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
2010 – 9/10 (Winter’s Bone)
2009 – 8/10 (The Blind Side, A Serious Man)
We are currently in the middle of Oscar nomination voting, which ends on March 10. Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards will be announced exactly one week from today, March 15.
The Croods: A New Age, Onward, Over the Moon, Soul and Wolfwalkers were the animated feature nominees and in television we have The Crown, The Mandalorian, Ted Lasso, What We Do In the Shadows, I May Destroy You, The Undoing and more.
Here is the full list of nominations of the 32nd Producers Guild of America awards. Winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony on March 24.
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios)
Producers: Sacha Baron Cohen, Monica Levinson, Anthony Hines
Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros)
Producers: Charles D. King, Ryan Coogler, Shaka King
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
Producers: Denzel Washington, Todd Black
Mank (Netflix)
Producers: Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, Douglas Urbanski
Minari (A24)
Producer: Christina Oh
Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
Producers: Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Chloé Zhao
One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios)
Producers: Jess Wu Calder, Keith Calder, Jody Klein
Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
Producers: Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell
Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
Producers: Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
Producers: Marc Platt, Stuart Besser
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
- The Croods: A New Age (DreamWorks Animation)
Producer: Mark Swift - Onward (Pixar)
Producer: Kori Rae - Over the Moon (Netflix)
Producers: Gennie Rim, Peilin Chou - Soul (Pixar)
Producer: Dana Murray - Wolfwalkers (Apple TV Plus/GKIDS)
- Producers: Paul Young, Nora Twomey, Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (Netflix)
Jonnie Hughes, Producer
Dick Johnson Is Dead (Netflix)
Kirsten Johnson, Katy Chevigny, and Marilyn Ness, Producers
My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)
Craig Foster, Producer
Softie (PBS)
Toni Kamau and Sam Soko, Producers
A Thousand Cuts (PBS)
Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, and Carolyn Hepburn, Producers
Time (Amazon Studios)
Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, and Garrett Bradley, Producers
The Truffle Hunters (Sony Pictures Classics)
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, Producers
The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
- Better Call Saul (AMC) – Season 5
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Bridgerton – (Netflix) – Season 1
Producers: eligibility determination pending - The Crown (Netflix) – Season 4
Producers: Peter Morgan, Suzanne Mackie, Stephen Daldry, Andy Harries, Benjamin Caron, Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert Fox, Michael Casey, Andy Stebbing, Martin Harrison, Oona O’Beirn - The Mandalorian (Disney+) – Season 2
Producers: Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, Colin Wilson, Karen Gilchrist, John Bartnicki, Carrie Beck - Ozark (Netflix) – Season 3
Producers: Jason Bateman, Chris Mundy, Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Patrick Markey, John Shiban, Miki Johnson, Matthew Spiegel, Erin Mitchell, Martin Zimmerman, Peter Thorell
The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) – Season 10
Producers: eligibility determination pending - The Flight Attendant (HBO Max) – Season 1
Producers: Greg Berlanti, Kaley Cuoco, Steve Yockey, Meredith Lavender, Marcie Ullin, Sarah Schechter, Suzanne McCormack, Jess Meyer, Raymond Quinlan, Jennifer Lence, Erika Kennair - Schitt’s Creek (Pop TV) – Season 6
Producers: Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy, Andrew Barnsley, Fred Levy, David West Read, Ben Feigin, Michael Short, Kurt Smeaton, Kosta Orfanidis - Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) – Season 1
Producers: Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Jeff Ingold, Bill Wrubel, Liza Katzer, Jane Becker, Jamie Lee, Kip Kroeger, Brendan Hunt, Tina Pawlik, Joe Kelly - What We Do in the Shadows (FX) – Season 2
Producers: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Paul Simms, Scott Rudin, Garrett Basch, Eli Bush, Stefani Robinson, Sam Johnson, Marika Sawyer, Derek S. Rappaport
The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television
- I May Destroy You (HBO)
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Normal People (Hulu)
Producers: Lenny Abrahamson, Sally Rooney, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, Anna Ferguson, Catherine Magee - The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
Producers: William Horberg, Allan Scott, Scott Frank, Marcus Loges, Mick Aniceto - The Undoing (HBO)
Producers: Susanne Bier, David E. Kelley, Per Saari, Nicole Kidman, Bruna Papandrea, Stephen Garrett, Celia Costas, Deb Dyer - Unorthodox (Netflix)
Producers: Anna Winger, Henning Kamm, Alexa Karolinksi
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures
- Bad Education (HBO)
Producers: Fred Berger, Eddie Vaisman - Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square (Netflix)
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Hamilton (Disney Plus)
Producers: Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller - Jane Goodall: The Hope (Disney+)
Producers: eligibility determination pending - What the Constitution Means To Me (Amazon Studios)
Producers: eligibility determination pending
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
- 60 Minutes (CBS) – Season 53
Producer: Bill Owens - The Last Dance (ESPN) – Season 1
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Laurel Canyon (EPIX)
Producers: eligibility determination pending - McMillion$ (HBO) – Season 1
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (Netflix)
Producers: eligibility determination pending
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television
- 8:46 – Dave Chappelle (Special) (Netflix)
Producers: eligibility determination pending - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central) – Season 26
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – Season 7
Producers: eligibility determination pending - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) – Season 6
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Saturday Night Live (NBC) – Season 46
Producers: eligibility determination pending
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
- The Amazing Race (CBS) – Season 32
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri, Mark Vertullo, Phil Keoghan - The Masked Singer (FOX) – Season 3, Season 4
Producers: eligibility determination pending - Nailed It! (Netflix) – Season 4
Producers: eligibility determination pending - RuPaul’s Drag Race ( (Season 12)
Producers: eligibility determination pending - The Voice (NBC) – Season 18, Season 19
Producers: eligibility determination pending
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