La La Land continues to impress in the Producers Guild Awards nominations

For those of you keeping track of awards, The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today their nominations for the 28th Annual Producers Guild Awards. The categories, as follows, are The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures and The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures. You can check out the nominations below and place your bets before the winners are announced on Saturday, January 28, 2017!

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:

• Arrival (Producers Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, Aaron Ryder, David Linde)
• Deadpool (Producers Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, Lauren Shuler Donner)
• Fences (Producers Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, Todd Black)
• Hacksaw Ridge (Producers: Bill Mechanic, David Permut)
• Hell or High Water (Producers Carla Hacken, Julie Yorn)
• Hidden Figures (Producers Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin & Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams, Theodore Melfi)
• La La Land (Producers: Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt)
• Lion (Producers Emile Sherman & Iain Canning, Angie Fielder)
• Manchester By the Sea (Producers: Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin Walsh)
• Moonlight (Producers: Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner)

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:

• Finding Dory (Producer Lindsey Collins)
• Kubo and the Two Strings (Producers Arianne Sutner, Travis Knight)
• Moana (Producer Osnat Shurer)
• The Secret Life of Pets (Producers Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy)
• Zootopia (Producer Clark Spencer)

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:

• Dancer (Producer Gabrielle Tana)
• The Eagle Huntress (Producers Stacey Reiss, Otto Bell)
• Life, Animated (Producers Julie Goldman, Roger Ross Williams)
• O.J.: Made in America (Producers Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow)
• Tower (Producers Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, Megan Gilbride)

It’s also worth noting that the Producers Guild will present special honors to Tom Rothman (Milestone Award), James L. Brooks (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), Irwin Winkler (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), the feature film Loving (Stanley Kramer Award), and Megan Ellison (Visionary Award). The role of producer may not be linked to the success of a film as much as directors, writers or actors are, but they serve an integral role to the film process, so they deserve some recognition too!