Nominations arrived this morning for the 2017 Producers Guild Awards (PGA) for the year’s best achievement in motion pictures, as decided upon by producers. The PGA is a fairly important guild too. Typically, their choices are fairly well aligned with the eventual Best Picture slate at the Oscars – with the caveat that PGA nominates an even 10 films per year versus the 5-10 nominated at the Oscars. Their eventual winners typically align as well – particularly in recent years as both the PGA and the Oscar’s Best Picture category are measured similarly (last year was a strange year when PGA picked Adam McKay’s The Big Short as their winner while the Oscars selected Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight).
This year’s slate includes many of the key awards favorites including frontrunner La La Land and hopeful spoilers Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight. The big surprise of this year’s line-up is undoubtedly the inclusion of Deadpool, Fox’s blockbuster origin tale of the titular (and anarchic) superhero played by Ryan Reynolds, himself nominated this morning as a producer of the film. The question, inevitably, may be if this heavily R-rated comic book adaptation could possibly find favor with the Academy. With two Golden Globe nominations and a Writer’s Guild nomination before this morning’s announcement, Deadpool – strange as it is to say – is looking stronger than expected.
Check out the nominees below:
DARRYL F. ZANUCK AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PRODUCER OF THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
- Arrival – Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, Aaron Ryder, DAvid Linde
- Deadpool – Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Schuler Donner
- Fences – Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, Todd Black
- Hacksaw Ridge – Bill Mechanic, David Permut
- Hell or High Water – Carla Hacken, Julie Yorn
- Hidden Figures – Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, Theodore Melfi
- La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
- Lion – Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Angie Fielder
- Manchester by the Sea – Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin Walsh
- Moonlight – Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
OUTSTANDING PRODUCER OF ANIMATED THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
- Finding Dory – Lindsey Collins
- Kubo and the Two Strings – Arianne Sutner, Travis Knight
- Moana – Osnat Shurer
- The Secret Life of Pets – Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy
- Zootopia – Clark Spencer
OUTSTANDING PRODUCER OF DOCUMENTARY THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
- Dancer – Gabrielle Tana
- The Eagle Huntress – Stacey Reiss, Otto Bell
- Life, Animated – Julie Goldman, Roger Ross Williams
- O.J.: Made in America – Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow
- Tower – Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, Megan Gilbride
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