CODA wins big as the Producers Guild Awards honors George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Greg Berlanti
To the extent that the Oscars can be predicted, CODA seems like a safe bet
In terms of foreshadowing the Oscars, the rest of awards season is really only as good as you care to make it. Sure, some organizations are historically good at predicting certain categories, but they’re just giving out their own awards and not necessarily trying to predict the Oscars. If there’s one thing that does seem like a good indicator of Oscar success, though, it’s momentum—and few things have as much of it this year as Apple TV+’s CODA.
After some big wins at Sundance, then more wins at the Critics Choice Awards, the BAFTAs, the Film Independent Spirit Awards, and the SAG Awards (though those were mainly for supporting actor Troy Kotsur), CODA seems like the only real competition for Jane Campion’s Power Of The Dog at the Oscars. This weekend, it—or, more accurately, its producers—added another trophy to the collection: The Darryl F. Zanuck Award For Outstanding Producer Of Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Producers Guild Awards.
CODA won the top prize at the PGA Awards, with Succession getting the TV drama equivalent, while Encanto won for animated feature and Ted Lasso won for comedy TV. The PGA also gave out a pair of lifetime achievement awards to some undeniably important producers: The TV-based Norman Lear Achievement Award went to Greg Berlanti, architect of The CW’s Arrowverse and basically every other hit genre show of the last decade. The 2022 Milestone Award, meanwhile, went to Lucasfilm’s George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy, whose contributions to popular culture probably don’t even need to be listed. (A little thing called Strange Magic, anyone?!)
The full list of winners of the normal categories is below, with more information at this Variety link.
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
CODA
Being The Ricardos
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune