Producers Guild Upsets the Oscar Race

The Producers Guild of America Awards is one of the most accurate predictors of the Oscar Best Picture winner, with the Guild’s awards falling in step with the Academy’s choice for the best film six out of the last seven years. So, what did we learn from this year’s awards ceremony? That we have no idea which film will be named Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. For the first time in PGA history, two films tied for the top honor.

Producers Guild Awards 2014 Winners

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: (tie)
Gravity (Warner Bros. Pictures) – Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures) – Producers: Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner
 
The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:
Breaking Bad (AMC) – Producers: Melissa Bernstein, Sam Catlin, Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Mark Johnson, Stewart Lyons, Michelle MacLaren, George Mastras, Diane Mercer, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett
 
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (Focus Features) – Producers: Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger
 
The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:
Behind the Candelabra (HBO) – Producers: Susan Ekins, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Polaire, Jerry Weintraub
 
The Award for Outstanding Sports Program:
SportsCenter (ESPN)
 
The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program:
Sesame Street (PBS)
 
The Award for Outstanding Digital Series:
Wired: What’s Inside (http://video.wired.com/series/what-s-inside)
 
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN) – Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig
 
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
Frozen (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) – Producer: Peter Del Vecho
 
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:
The Voice (NBC) – Producers: Stijn Bakkers, Mark Burnett, John de Mol, Chad Hines, Lee Metzger, Audrey Morrissey, Jim Roush, Kyra Thompson, Nicolle Yaron, Mike Yurchuk, Amanda Zucker
 
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment and Talk Television:
The Colbert Report (Comedy Central) – Producers: Meredith Bennett, Stephen T. Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Matt Lappin, Emily Lazar, Tanya Michnevich Bracco, Tom Purcell, Jon Stewart
 
The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:
Modern Family (ABC) – Producers: Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Jeffrey Morton, Dan O’Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Chris Smirnoff, Brad Walsh, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker
 
-Posted by Rebecca Murray

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