“Nomadland” has been named the most effective produced movie of 202o by the Producers Guild of America, giving it one more enhance in an Oscar race the place it was already thought-about the favourite.
In a class the place Chloé Zhao’s understated travelogue was going through off towards seven different Oscar nominees, the Producers Guild supplied a key indicator that the movie has the sort of energy throughout the trade that it already confirmed with critics. In doing so, it took away the prospect that rivals like “Promising Young Woman,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Minari needed to seize momentum at an important second in awards season.
The movie has now picked up a formidable array of awards, together with wins on the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards and the Gotham Awards.
Still, the Producers Guild Award will not be the infallible Oscar predictor it had as soon as gave the impression to be. For a few years, notably after each teams expanded the variety of nominees to 10 and instituted the ranked-choice system of counting votes, the 2 prizes went to the identical movie yr after yr — however over the past 5 years, the PGA winner has solely gone on to win the Oscar twice, with “The Shape of Water” in 2018 and “Green Book” in 2019. The different three years, the Producers Guild winners had been “The Big Short,” “La La Land” and “1917,” whereas the Oscars had been gained by “Spotlight,” “Moonlight” and “Parasite.”
Overall, the Producers Guild winner has additionally gained the Best Picture Oscar 21 occasions in 31 years, together with one yr by which “12 Years a Slave” and “Gravity” tied on the PGA and the previous movie gained on the Oscars.
In the tv classes, the PGA award for drama sequence went to “The Crown,” whereas the comedy sequence award went to “Schitt’s Creek.” “Hamilton” gained the award for televised or streamed movement image, whereas “The Queen’s Gambit” gained for limited-series tv.
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” gained the award for dwell leisure/discuss tv, whereas “RuPaul’s Drag Race” gained for recreation and competitors TV. “The Last Dance” gained for nonfiction tv.
Winners in 4 classes — sports activities program, kids’s program, short-form program and the PGA Innovation Award — had been introduced at a separate occasion on Saturday. Those awards went to “Defying Gravity: The Untold Story of Women’s Gymnastics,” “The Power of We: A Sesame Street Special,” “Carpool Karaoke: The Series” and “BRCvr.”
“My Octopus Teacher” gained the award for documentary movie in a class that included seven movies, together with its fellow Oscar nominee “Time.” The prize for animated characteristic went to Pixar’s “Soul.”
Like the Writers Guild Awards, the Producers Guild ceremony was pre-recorded, with all of the nominees taping acceptance speeches — which, as with the WGA, led to a sure lack of ardour and pleasure in these speeches. At the identical time, that format took what is often a three-hour ceremony and lower it right down to lower than 90 minutes.
Here is the listing of nominees. Winners are indicated by *WINNER.
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Sacha Baron Cohen, Monica Levinson, Anthony Hines
“Judas and the Black Messiah,” Charles D. King, Ryan Coogler, Shaka King
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Denzel Washington, Todd Black
“Mank,” Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth, Douglas Urbanski
“Minari,” Christina Oh
“Nomadland,” Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao *WINNER
“One Night in Miami …,” Jess Wu Calder & Keith Calder, Jody Klein
“Promising Young Woman,” Josey McNamara, Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell
“Sound of Metal,” Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche
“The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Marc Platt, Stuart Besser
Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
“The Croods: A New Age,” Mark Swift
“Onward,” Kori Rae
“Over the…
