Producers Guild goes for ‘Amy,’ ‘Meru, ‘The Hunting Ground’ for Top Doc Honors

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From left: Meru, Amy and The Hunting Ground among PGA’s Top Docs

 

The Producers Guild of America has nominated Amy, The Hunting Ground, The Look of Silence, Meru and Something Better to Come for their top Documentary Feature award. This makes the second grab for Amy and The Look of Silence after The International Documentary Association nominated them just under three weeks ago.

Amy, distributed by A24 (who appear to be on their way to a great Oscar season), has grossed over $8M in the U.S. Meru, from Music Box, has grossed $2.3 and The Hunting Ground, from Radius, has grossed just under $400K. It will be aired on CNN tonight.

Last year’s winner, the Roger Ebert bio-doc Life Itself, was snubbed at The Oscars. A high-profile celebrity piece like Amy could also suffer that same fate if the Oscar Doc committee chooses to be the petty brats they’ve shown to be in recent years since the Academy changed their voting rules.

The Producers Guild of America awards will be held on January 23rd, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

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.

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