Producers Guild Honors Outgoing National Executive Director Vance Van Petten During PGA Awards

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The Producers Guild of America has joined the growing chorus of Hollywood guilds opposed to Georgia’s restrictive new voting laws. “The Producers Guild of America strongly opposes the Georgia voter bill as an attempt to restrict the votes of underrepresented groups, particularly Black Americans,” the PGA tweeted this evening. “Full access to voting is the underpinning of our American Democracy and it is imperative for us to rigorously protect these rights for all Americans.”

Professional relationship pros! Gillian Anderson thanked her ex-boyfriend Peter Morgan during her acceptance speech at the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, April 4.

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Nomadland and Netflix's The Crown topped the 2021Producers Guild of America Awards in a virtual ceremony Wednesday. Nomadland, a frontrunner for the best picture Oscar, took home the outstanding theatrical motion pictures award, with its theme of people finding a community under challenging circumstances feeling particularly resonate given the events of the past year.

A few minutes ago, the Producers Guild Awards concluded, and with that, we can now say with a fair amount of certainty that Nomadland is in the driver’s seat for Best Picture. The Academy Awards could still potentially throw a curveball, but the odds don’t favor that. Rather, it sure seems like this movie is the Oscar pick. Sit tight for the rest of the guilds to chime in, but if you had to pick a film to repeat with the Academy, Nomadland is the one, especially after PGA…

Also Read: While the Oscars Embrace Diversity, the Golden Globes Scramble for RelevanceIn the television categories, the PGA award for drama series went to “The Crown,” while the comedy series award went to “Schitt’s Creek.” “Hamilton” won the award for televised or streamed motion picture, while “The Queen’s Gambit” won for limited-series television.“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” won the award for live entertainment/talk television, while “RuPaul’s Drag Race” won for game and competition

Ellise Shafer administratorThe votes are in, and the winners of the 32nd Producers Guild Awards will be announced tonight.Tonight’s virtual ceremony begins at 5 p.m. PT.

Diane Garrett Producers Guild leaders won’t be hosting their annual awards show in person as hoped mid-pandemic. Instead, they promise a virtual event on March 24 that will give members a chance to celebrate their accomplishments following a year marked by production stoppages and a shattered theatrical marketplace.

Sister, the Elisabeth Murdoch-backed producer behind Chernobyl, is launching an office in the north of England and has recruited The Split executive producer Lucy Dyke to lead the outpost.

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s Oscar nominees Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Sacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan, Steven Yeun, Amanda Seyfried and Paul Raci are among those who have been added as presenters for the the Producers Guild’s 32nd annual PGA Awards, which will take place later this week in a virtual ceremony.

The vast majority of successful fiction films begin with a good script. Often in documentary the opposite is true—the creative breakthrough comes in throwing out the “script” and adjusting as reality unfolds.

National Basketball Assn. legend Michael Jordan was not an easy sell on the docuseries The Last Dance. Producer Mike Tollin told a Producers Guild panel of Non-Scripted Television producers that the NBA had kept 500 hours of footage from Jordan’s final season,1997-1998, pending Jordan’s approval to release it.

Nominees for the Producers Guild of America Darryl F. Zanuck award each had challenges financing their nominated films. They detailed their stories in a PGA panel on Saturday.

Producers of One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman, and Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm spoke about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their films at a panel staged by the Producers Guild.

Monica Levinson, producer of Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, said the film’s infamous Rudy Giuliani scene was even more harrowing for the filmmakers after the former mayor left the hotel room.

The Producers Guild of America on Saturday unveiled winners in four categories for the 32nd annual PGA Awards, the news coming during the guild’s A Day With the PGA Awards Nominees virtual event. The remainder of the awards recognizing the year’s best in producing across film, TV and documentaries will be bestowed during a March 24 ceremony.