Producers Guild and ACE Eddie Awards Crown "La La Land"
Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 2:30PM 
La La Land may officially be unbeatable, 28 days from now when the envelopes are opened on Hollywood's High Holy Night. It's currently the top grossing Best Picture nominee this year (though Hidden Figures is right on its tail) and last night it took the Producers Guild prize for feature film. That award doesn't always correlate to the Best Picture prize but it does more often than not. The musical also won the ACE Eddie Award. The momentum is there for La La Land to at least do a mini-sweep of the Oscars. The question is "how many trophies can it win?"
Full list of prizes from the Editors and Producers Guild as well as pretty gowns from the attending actresses after the jump...
PGA Wins
Feature: La La Land Producers Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
TV Show, Drama: Stranger Things Producers: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Iain Paterson
TV Show, Comedy: Atlanta Producers: Donald Glover, Dianne McGunigle, Paul Simms, Hiro Murai, Alex Orr
The WESTWORLD and LION casts are working hard for exposure this season 
Collins, Malek, Paulson, Peet, and Henson
Janelle Monae -- can't wait to see what she wears to the Oscars!
Documentary Motion Picture: OJ Made in America Producers: Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow
Animated Motion Picture: Zootopia Producer: Clark Spencer
Digital Series: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Season 7& 8)
Sports Program: [tie] Real Sports with Bryant Gumble (S22) and VICE World of Sports (S1)
Children's Program: Sesame Street (S46)
Live Entertainment & Talk Television: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (S3)
Competition Television: The Voice (S9-11) Mark Burnett was not greeted so warmly when he won this...
Some awkward murmurs, a few boos as the original Trump enabler Mark Burnett accepts a PGA Award for THE VOICE pic.twitter.com/xXO5GEBGZx
— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) January 29, 2017
And things got more political, too...
Non-Fiction Television: Making a Murderer (S1)
Long Form Television: People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story (S1)
ACE Eddie Wins
Feature Film Drama: Arrival Joe Walker, ACE
Feature Film Comedy: La La Land Tom Cross, ACE
Feature Film Animated: Zootopia Fabienne Rawley & Jeremy Milton
Feature Film Documentary: OJ Made in America Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Bem Sozanski
Documentary, TV: Everything is Copy Bob Eisenhart
Half-Hour Series, TV: Veep "Morning After" Steve Rasch, ACE
One-Hour Series, Non Commercial: Game of Thrones "Battle of the Bastards" Tim Porter, ACE
One-Hour Series, Commercial: This is Us, "Pilot" - David L Bertman, ACE
Miniseries or Motion PIcture, TV: All the Way, Carol Littleton, ACE
Non-Scripted Series: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Senegal Mustafa Bhagat
Reader Comments (11)
I see people in ugly dresses...
La La Land: ten Oscars! Losing actor, actress, screenplay and costume/production design/ cinematography
Jon - If La La Land loses four categories, that would make 9 Oscars... they have two noms in song, they can't win twice.
Evan.... rocking the suit!
La La Land can win 13 oscars (presuming no tie in best song, which would be insane). I think it's losing sound editing and actor. So we're at 11. And that's where I think it'll be by the end.
I just saw La La Lnd and found it to be a very pleasant pastiche with little soul and 2 solid performances but they shouldn't be anywere near Oscar consideration,the songs were nice,the black guy as Gosling's friend was hopeless as was Simmons.
Chicago is superior over La La Land. Having an urge to watch it last night it stands up better than the very loud backlash against it. I sort of miss the ensemble of that movie being a bigger deal in Hollywood. It feels like a last hurrah for all involved.
Very happy for LA LA LAND. If Gosling wins tonight, it's over. But even if the movie walks home empty handed tonight, it'll be the frontrunner.
"There's a lot of money and power in this room and I hope you will use it for something good." Yes, indeed, Mr. Legend.
/3rthful: I think it's time for a Chicago rewatch as well... And unlike La La Land, Chicago actually has an "in film" reason explain its lead isn't a great singer or dancer. (Renee Zellweger acquits herself just fine, in my opinion, but its clear that Roxy doesn't have the talent to be a big star without the sniff of scandal to make her an attraction.)
I think LA LA LAND loses song x1, sound editing, actor and production design. I thought maybe costumes as well, but with no real extravagant period nominee like Marie Antoinette or The Duchess, I'm thinking Zophrys will take that one, too. Its costumes are certainly memorable.