Producers Guild: ‘Billy on the Street,’ ‘Sesame Street’ among specialty category nominees

Erik Anderson December 19, 2019

(l-r) Chris Evans with Billy Eichner on BILLY ON THE STREET

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today nominations in its television specialty categories for the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards.

Additionally, the PGA announced the nominees for the inaugural Innovation Award, which will honor an outstanding entertainment endeavor across the emerging mediums of VR, AR, experiential and more. The winner of the Innovation Award and the winner in the Short-Form category will be announced at a PGA nominees event on January 16 at the Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles. The winners in the Children’s and Sports categories will be announced in New York at a nominees celebration on January 13 at Ascent Lounge.

The 2020 Producers Guild Awards nominations out today are listed below in alphabetical order by category. The PGA does not vet the individual producers of Short-Form programs, Sports programs, Children’s programs or the New Media projects submitted in the Innovation Award category.

The Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program

Billy on the Street with Billy Eichner
Born This Way (S5)
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (S11)
Creating Saturday Night Live (S3)
Under a Rock with Tig Notaro (S1)

The Award for Outstanding Sports Program

Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Oakland Raiders (S14)
Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (S25)
SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt (S5)
What’s My Name | Muhammad Ali

The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program

Carmen Sandiego (S1, S2)
Green Eggs and Ham (S1)
Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (S1)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (S3)
Sesame Street (S49)

The PGA Innovation Award

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: An Interactive Adventure
Artificial
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Bonfire
Cosmos Within Us
Eleven Eleven
First Man VR
How to Train Your Dragon: Fly with Toothless VR
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Virtual Tour
Interactive Play at Sesame Street Land, SeaWorld, Orlando
Mesmerica
Tree VR
Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode I
You vs. Wild

The remaining nominations for Theatrical Motion Pictures, Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, Television Series/Specials, Limited Series Television and Streamed/ Televised Motion Pictures will be announced January 7, 2020. Winners of these categories will be announced at the Producers Guild Awards ceremony on January 18 at the Hollywood Palladium.

At the Producers Guild Awards ceremony in January, the Producers Guild will also present special honors to powerhouse producers and leaders who have left their undeniable marks on the industry. This includes Ted Sarandos (Milestone Award); Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures); Marta Kauffman (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television); Octavia Spencer (Visionary Award); as well as the Lionsgate film Bombshell (The Stanley Kramer Award).

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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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.