PGA Nominations: Wa Wa Wee Wa! "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" made the list.
Monday, March 8, 2021 at 2:01PM
NATHANIEL R in Borat, PGA, Punditry, precursor awards

The Producers Guild of America has spoken and has named these ten pictures as nominees for its top category.

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

This is great news for Judas and the Black Messiah as a late breaking contender as well as Sound of Metal which has had a lot of buzz for Riz Ahmed but less so for other awards categories.  The PGA choices are a tough break for News of the World and The Father. But all is not lost for the latter two hopefuls as Oscar does often change things up a bit. Stats and more PGA nominations after the jump...

Differences in PGA to Oscar in recent Best Picture years. Oscar will usually dump at last one or two of the PGA titles and replace one. In the last five years though the choices have had less variety with Oscar voters usually only selecting from the PGA titles and not adding any of their own. Generally speaking Oscar has better taste if you look at omissions and substitutions but there have been a few outlier years where the PGA was wiser. 

2019: (PGA only): Knives Out
  Oscar replaced with: All other nominations matched

Difference of opinion: PGA chose 1917 for its top prize and Oscar went with Parasite.

2018: (PGA only) Crazy Rich Asians and A Quiet Place
          Oscar replaced with: All other nominations matched

2017: (PGA only) The Big Sick, I Tonya, Molly's Game, and Wonder Woman
          Oscar replaced with: Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread

2016: (PGA only) Deadpool
          Oscar replaced with: All other nominations matched.

  Difference of opinion: PGA chose La La Land for its top prize and Oscar went with Moonlight

2015: (PGA only) Ex Machina, Sicario and Straight Outta Compton
          Oscar replaced with: Room 

Difference of opinion: PGA chose The Big Short for its top prize and Oscar went with Spotlight

2014: (PGA only) Foxcatcher, Gone Girl and Nightcrawler
          Oscar replaced with: Selma

2013: (PGA only) Blue Jasmine and Saving Mr Banks
          Oscar replaced with: Philomena

Difference of opinion: NOT REALLY given Oscar outcomes but there was a tie and the PGA chose both Gravity (which won the most Oscars) for its top prize AND 12 Years a Slave which won Best Picture at the Oscars.

2012: (PGA only) Moonrise Kingdom and Skyfall
          Oscar replaced with: Amour

2011: (PGA only) Bridesmaids, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Ides of March
          Oscar replaced with: The Tree of Life and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2010: (PGA only) The Town
          Oscar replaced with: Winter's Bone

2009: (PGA only) Invictus and Star Trek
          Oscar replaced with: The Blind Side and A Serious Man

BEFORE 2009 BOTH BOTH OSCAR AND PGA HAD 5 NOMINATIONS FOR THE TOP CATEGORY (though PGA allows ties so sometimes there were 6).

AFTERWARDS OSCAR HAD BETWEEN 8-10 NOMINEES DEPENDING ON THE YEAR AND PGA STAYED WITH A TOP TEN EACH YEAR (unless there was a tie in which case they had 11)

2008: (PGA only) The Dark Knight
Oscar replaced with: The Reader

2007: (PGA only) The Diving Bell and Butterfly
Oscar replaced with: Atonement

2006: (PGA only) Dreamgirls
Oscar replaced with: Letters from Iwo Jima

Difference of opinion: PGA chose Little Miss Sunshine for its top prize and Oscar went with The Departed

2005: (PGA only) Walk the Line
Oscar replaced with: Munich

Difference of opinion: PGA chose Brokeback Mountain for its top prize and Oscar went with Crash

2004: (PGA only) The Incredibles
Oscar replaced with: Ray

Difference of opinion: PGA chose The Aviator for its top prize and Oscar went with Million Dollar Baby

2003: (PGA only) Cold Mountain and The Last Samurai (6 nominees that year)
Oscar replaced with: Lost in Translation

2002: (PGA only) Adaptation, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Road to Perdition (6 nominees that year)
Oscar replaced with: The Hours and The Pianist 

2001: (PGA only) Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, Shrek
 Oscar replaced with: Gosford Park and In the Bedroom

Difference of opinion: PGA chose Moulin Rouge! (which shocked and delighted awards-fanatics) for its top prize and Oscar went with A Beautiful Mindzzz

2000: (PGA only) Almost Famous and Billy Elliott
Oscar replaced with: Chocolat and Traffic

We could go back further but let's stop at just the last twenty years of stats since there are still more PGA nominations to discuss.

BACK TO THE NEW PGA NOMINATIONS


Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

 

 

It's interesting that PGA went with Over the Moon which missed the top category at the Annie Awards. The Annies preferred both The Willoughbys and Trolls World Tour  to Over the Moon  when it came to the American pictures. 

Dont ink anything in beyond Soul and Wolfwalkers with Oscar as these nomination fields almost never exactly match. It's happened just once and it was in a year with only three nominees: 2008's nominees WALL•E, Bolt, and Kung Fu Panda.  There was one other year where every PGA nominee was also nominated for the Oscar category but that was a year (2006) wherein the PGA chose 5 nominees and Oscar had only 3. Generally speaking PGA will only nominate American pictures for this prize whereas Oscar will often select one or two overseas entries as nominees. So hope is not lost yet for Annie nominees from overseas: Shaun the Sheep Farmageddon, Calamity, Ride Your Wave, or On-Gaku. 

Otherwise it's most common to only match 60%. Years with PGA/Oscar 4/5 matches: 2018, 2012, 2009; Years with PGA/Oscar 3/5 matches: 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011; Years with PGA/Oscar 2/5 matches: 2015;  Years with PGA/Oscar 2/3 matches: 2010, 2005; Years of PGA/Oscar matches 1/3: 2007

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama

 

 

Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy

 

 

Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television


 

 

Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures


 

 

Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television

 

 

Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television

 

 

Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television

 

 

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures (previously announced)


 

Dick Johnson, Time, My Octopus Teacher and Truffle Hunters ar still possibilities for the Oscar nomination but the rest are no longer in contention or were never eligible. 

 

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