The Producers Guild of America, one of the most reliable predictors of success in the Oscars’ Best Picture category, has nominated Oscar favorites “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Perez” and “Wicked” for its best feature film award, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of theatrical Motion Pictures.
Other nominees in the category are “Dune: Part Two,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5” and “The Substance.”
While last year’s PGA nominations included a record three films directed by women and three predominantly not in English, “The Substance” was the year’s only female-directed nominee and “Emilia Perez” its only non-English.
The nominations include most of the top contenders for the Oscar for best picture, with indies “Nickel Boys” and “Sing Sing” the highest-profile films left out. “September 5,” the European-made film about the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Munich Olympics, is the biggest surprise among the nominees after receiving little awards attention from other guilds.
In the television categories, the nominees were “Bad Sisters,” “The Diplomat,” “Shogun,” “Abbott Elementary,” “The Bear,” “Hacks,” “Baby Reindeer” and “The Penguin.”
Since the Academy and Producers Guild both expanded to 10 nominees for Best Picture in 2009, nearly 90% of Oscar nominees have first been nominated by the PGA. When the Academy moved to a variable number of nominees in 10 of those years, there has been only one instance where the two groups matched up exactly — and that came last year, when the 10 PGA nominees all went on to receive Oscar nods.
Since the Producers Guild began announcing a list of nominees in 1991, “Braveheart” is the only film to win best picture at the Academy Awards without first being nominated by the guild.
The announcement of the nomination had been delayed for six days due to the wildfires in LA. The delay made the PGA the last of the four major guilds to announce its nominations.
The results made “Anora” and “A Complete Unknown” the only films nominated by the Directors Guild, Producers Guild and Writers Guild to receive an ensemble nomination from the Screen Actors Guild. “Conclave” and “Emilia Perez” received SAG, DGA and PGA nominations and were not eligible for a WGA nomination, while “The Brutalist” received an individual acting nomination at SAG, DGA and PGA nods and was not eligible for the WGA.
The Producers Guild Awards will take place on February 8 in Los Angeles.
The nominations:
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Anora
The Brutalist
A complete unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
A real pain
September 5
The subject
Evil
Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Films
Flow
Inside out 2
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The wild robot
Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic TV – Drama
Bad sisters
The Diplomat
Fall-out
Shogun
Slow horses
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic TV – Comedy
Abbott Elementary
The bear
Curb your enthusiasm
Hacks
Only murders in the building
David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited Television or Anthology Series
Baby clean
FEUD: Capote Vs. The swans
The penguin
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country
Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Films
Continue
The biggest night in pop
The killer
Rebel Ridge
Unfrosted
Award for Outstanding Producer of Nonfiction Television
30 for 30
Conan O’Brien must go
The Jinx – Part Two
STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 parts
Welcome to Wrexham
Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
Ali Wong: Single lady
The Daily Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live
Game & Competition Television Outstanding Producer Award
The Amazing Race
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top chef
The traitors
The voice
The following nominees were previously announced.
The award for outstanding documentary film producer
Gaucho Gaucho
Mediha
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Porcelain war
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
We will dance again
The award for outstanding children’s programming
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Sesame Street
Spongebob Squarepants
The award for outstanding short form program
The Crown: Farewell to a royal epic
Hacks: Bit by bit
The Penguin: Inside Gotham
Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime
Shōgun – The Making of Shōgun
The award for outstanding sports programming
Formula 1: Drive to survive
Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants
Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend
Simone Biles gets up
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
PGA Innovation Award
Critterz
Emperor
Impulse: Playing with reality
Orbital
The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu
What if…? – An immersive story
