The Big Short takes home the big prize at the Producers Guild Awards
The Producers Guild Of America Awards ceremony was held Saturday night, affording the hardworking, behind-the-scenes stiffs a chance to be front and center along with A-list presenters and performers like Michael B. Jordan and Golden Globe winner Lady Gaga. The PGA Awards are also notable (especially in the last decade or so) for their ability to predict the subsequent winner of the Best Picture Oscar. So the Golden Globes can keep their celebrity-led shenanigans, and the critics and people their choices, because the PGA Awards are the real arbiters of (another awards body’s) taste.
Although the PGA recognized far more producing efforts of the small screen, the winner of the guild’s top movie prize was the biggest news to come out of the event, as the PGA awarded the Darryl F. Zanuck Award to Adam McKay’s mortgage-crisis comedy, The Big Short. The PGA has successfully “predicted” the Best Picture Oscar winner over the last eight years, which means its preference for The Big Short has probably shifted the film’s place in the Oscar race. So although The Revenant cleaned up at the Golden Globes recently, we could see some very bad wigs take home the coveted statuette next month.
The other film-producing award winners were Inside Out for outstanding animated film and Amy for outstanding documentary. And in TV, Game Of Thrones was recognized in the episodic drama-producing category, while Fargo won the David L. Wolper Award for outstanding (producing of) long-form television. The complete list of winners is below, which should serve to whet your appetite for the Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 30, not to mention the Academy Awards on February 28.
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Big Short
Straight Outta Compton
The Martian
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
Brooklyn
Ex Machina
Sicario
Bridge of Spies
Spotlight
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Inside Out
Minions
The Peanuts Movie
The Good Dinosaur
Anomalisa
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
Amy
Something Better to Come
The Look of Silence
Meru
The Hunting Ground
Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama
Game of Thrones
Mad Men
Homeland
House of Cards
Better Call Saul
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy
Transparent
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Inside Amy Schumer
Veep
The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
Fargo
American Crime
True Detective
A Very Murray Christmas
American Horror Story: Hotel