The Producers Guild of America’s honors, one of awards season’s most significant predictors of the eventual Oscar winner for best picture, has announced its film and television nominees.
The guild’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures includes the producers behind 10 contenders that continue to appear on nominations lists: Amazon Studios’ “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “One Night in Miami,” and “Sound of Metal,” Warner Bros.’ “Judas and the Black Messiah,” A24’s “Minari,” Searchlight Pictures’ “Nomadland,” Focus Features’ “Promising Young Woman,” and Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Mank,” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
While many of the winners in the top category go on to earn the Academy Award for best picture (eight in the last 11 years), reflecting the heavy overlap between voting bodies, last year’s PGA winner “1917” fell to “Parasite” at the Oscars. Also worth noting is the continued dominance of titles from streaming services; six of the 10 slots this year have gone to Netflix and Amazon.
In TV categories, the PGA nominated many scripted series that will be eligible at the 2021 Emmy Awards: dramas including AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” “The Crown,” and “Ozark,” and Disney+’s “The Mandalorian”; comedies including HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” HBO Max’s “The Flight Attendant,” PopTV’s “Schitt’s Creek,” Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso,” and FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows”; and limited series including HBO’s “I May Destroy You” and “The Undoing,” Hulu’s “Normal People,” and Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” and “Unorthodox.”
The 32nd annual PGA Awards will be bestowed in a virtual presentation March 24, one of many ceremonies this season grappling with COVID-19’s ongoing disruption of the industry. For a full list of 2021 PGA Award nominees and more, visit their official website.
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