Oppenheimer continued its atomic charge toward Oscar glory by winning the marquee film prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight in Hollywood. Producer-director Christopher Nolan’s box office and awards-season juggernaut went home with the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Ray Dolby Ballroom. Producers Emma Thomas and Charles Roven shared in the prize., The PGA win cemented Oppenheimer’s chances for Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards on March 10. The Zanuck Award long has been considered a strong prognosticator for Best Picture, with 15 of the past 20 going on to triumph at the Academy Awards. Last year followed the trend as the PGA honored Everything Everywhere All at Once, which took the Oscar two weeks later.
, “I think that our tendency is to spend so much time advocating for our projects … we forget to advocate for ourselves,” Thomas said in accepting the award. “This means so much coming from you. This group is full of people whose work we admire enormously. We all know how hard the job can be. We also know how great the job can be. It’s the best job on set.” , , She added: “Thank you, Chris Nolan, for being a fantastic director and writer. What you probably don’t know about him his he’s the best producer. I worked on four films with you now. He is the best producing partner you can possibly hope for. There are a lot of people who worked on the film here tonight. They’re an incredible part of what made this film a success and our cast., Said Nolan: “Thank you, Emma — you said it all. We’ve never won this before. We’ve been nominated before. Every time we found ourselves invited into this room, we felt such support for whatever risks we were taking from a group of people who understand how difficult it is to get a movie made, let alone something that doesn’t fit a preexisting pattern of success.,
, “I want to give a thank-you to Chuck Roven for agreeing to read American Promethus and starting a chain reaction that spread all over the world,” he added., Oppenheimer is vying for the Best Picture Oscar against its summer playmate Barbie, American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest. All of them also were up for the Zanuck Award at the PGAs. , , Meanwhile, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse built on last weekend’s Annie Awards dominance and solidified its front-runner status for the Animated Feature Oscar with a PGA win for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures. Its producers are Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller and Christina Steinberg., The night’s first film prize went to American Symphony, whose producers Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman and Joedan Okun claimed the Documentary Motion Picture award., RELATED: Read The Scripts For All Of The Oscar Best Picture Nominees, The night’s first film prize went to the producers behind American Symphony, who won for Documentary Motion Picture. , The small-screen awards mostly followed last month’s Emmys script, with Succession taking the Drama Series awards and Beef winning for Anthology or Limited Series., The evening started off with the award for TV comedy, and The Bear continued its ursine stranglehold on trophies this year. Following its Emmy and SAG Awards triumphs, the sophomore FX series claimed the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy. , RELATED: 2024 Awards Season Calendar – Dates For Oscars, Guilds, Tonys & More, A little later, the Emmy-laden Last Week with John Oliver went home with the trophy in the mouthful category of Outstanding Producer Of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television., Another Emmy regular, RuPaul’s Drag Race, won the PGA Award for Game & Competition TV, and Welcome to Wrexham went home with the trophy for Nonfiction TV. , The award for Televised or Streaming Movie went to Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea., RELATED: Martin Scorsese Accepts David O. Selznick Award; Shares How Producer’s ‘Duel In The Sun’ Inspired Parts Of ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’, Martin Scorsese was among the evening’s career honorees. Watch his speech here:, RELATED: Gail Berman Remembers Getting “No After No” For ‘B rnrnBuffy The Vampire Slayer’ Before She Got A “Yes”; Producer Talks “Resilience” In Accepting PGA Norman Lear Award, Gail Berman received the PGA’s 2024 Norman Lear Achievement Award tonight, and a highlight of her acceptance speech was describing the hassles of getting TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer greenlighted. “Not a single person was interested in buying that television show,” she said onstage. “I mean not a single person on this Earth was interested in buying that television show. I couldn’t ignore my gut. An empowerment story with a young woman at the center. We got no after no after no. Then one day, we finally got a yes. And I gotta say, it all comes down to resilience.”, Berman, who is CEO of Grimsburg and The Perfect Couple producer The Jackal Group, has produced more than 300 episodes of television during her 38-year career. Her expansive portfolio also includes such hits as American Idol, the Buffy spinoff Angel, The Addams Family films and Netflix’s Wednesday.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Producers: John Oliver, Tim Carvell, Liz Stanton, Jeremy Tchaban, Catherine Owens, Whit Conway, Kaye Foley, Laura L. Griffin, Christopher McDaniel, Kate Mullaney, Matt Passet, Megan Peck Shub, Wynn Van Dusen, Marian Wang, Charles Wilson, 🏆 Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Welcome to Wrexham
Producers: Josh Drisko, Bryan Rowland, Jeff Luini, Alan Bloom, Nicholas Frenkel, George Dewey, Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds, Miloš Balać, Liz Spano, Aaron Lovell, Shannon Owen, Patrick McGarvey, Patrick Gooing, Molly Milstein, 🏆 Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures
Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea
Producers: Charlie Brooker, Jessica Rhoades, Annabel Jones, 🏆 Outstanding Sports Program
Beckham (Season 1), 🏆 Outstanding Children’s Program
Sesame Street (Season 53), 🏆 Outstanding Short Form Program
Succession: Controlling the Narrative, 🏆 PGA Innovation Award
Body of Mine
