The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced nominations in the motion pictures and television categories for the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards to be held on Saturday, March 19, 2022 at the Fairmont Century Plaza.
The Producers Guild Awards are often a bellwether for the Oscars. Since its inception, the PGA has predicted 22 of the past 32 winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture. This time around the nominees for the marquee Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures are: Being the Ricardos, Belfast, CODA, Don’t Look Up, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, The Power of the Dog, tick, tick…Boom! and West Side Story.
Here’s a full rundown of the nominees across all categories:
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Being the Ricardos
Producer: Todd Black, p.g.a.
Belfast
Producers: Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
CODA
Producers: Philippe Rousselet, p.g.a., Fabrice Gianfermi, p.g.a., Patrick Wachsberger, p.g.a.
Don’t Look Up
Producers: Adam McKay, p.g.a., Kevin Messick, p.g.a.
Dune
Producers: Mary Parent, p.g.a., Cale Boyter, p.g.a., Denis Villeneuve, p.g.a.
King Richard
Producers: Tim White, p.g.a., Trevor White, p.g.a., Will Smith, p.g.a.
Licorice Pizza
Producers: Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner
The Power of the Dog
Producers: Jane Campion, p.g.a., Tanya Seghatchian, p.g.a., Emile Sherman, p.g.a. & Iain Canning, p.g.a., Roger Frappier, p.g.a.
tick, tick…BOOM!
Producers: Julie Oh, p.g.a., Lin-Manuel Miranda, p.g.a.
West Side Story
Producers: Steven Spielberg, p.g.a., Kristie Macosko Krieger, p.g.a.
Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Encanto
Producers: Yvett Merino, p.g.a., Clark Spencer, p.g.a.
Luca
Producers: Andrea Warren, p.g.a.
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Producers: Phil Lord, p.g.a. & Christopher Miller, p.g.a., Kurt Albrecht, p.g.a.
Raya and the Last Dragon
Producers: Osnat Shurer, p.g.a., Peter Del Vecho, p.g.a.
Sing 2
Producers: Chris Meledandri, p.g.a., Janet Healy, p.g.a.
Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 4)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
The Morning Show (Season 2)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Squid Game (Season 1)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Succession (Season 3)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Yellowstone (Season 4)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
Cobra Kai (Seasons 3 & 4)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 11)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Hacks (Season 1)
Producers: Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Michael Schur, David Miner, Morgan Sackett, Joanna Calo, Andrew Law, David Hyman, Joe Mande, Jessica Chaffin
Only Murders in the Building (Season 1)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Ted Lasso (Season 2)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television
Dopesick
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Mare of Easttown
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
​​The Underground Railroad
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
WandaVision
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
The White Lotus
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures
8-Bit Christmas
Producers: Tim White, p.g.a. & Trevor White, p.g.a., Allan Mandelbaum, p.g.a.
Come From Away
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Oslo
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Single All The Way
Producer: Joel S. Rice, p.g.a.
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
60 Minutes (Season 54)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Allen v. Farrow (Season 1)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
The Beatles: Get Back (Season 1)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Queer Eye (Season 6)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (Season 1)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Season 27)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Dave Chappelle: The Closer
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Season 8)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Season 7)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Saturday Night Live (Season 47)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
America’s Got Talent (Season 16)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Nailed It! (Seasons 5 & 6)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 13)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Top Chef (Season 18)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
The Voice (Season 20)
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
The PGA previously announced the nominations in this category on December 10, 2021.
Ascension
Producers: Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell
The First Wave
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Flee
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
In The Same Breath
Producers: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman & Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn
The Rescue
*Eligibility Determination Pending*
Simple As Water
Producers: Robin Hessman, Megan Mylan
Summer Of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Producers: Joseph Patel, p.g.a., David Dinerstein, p.g.a., Robert Fyvolent, p.g.a.
Writing With Fire
Producers: Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
Final ballots for TV (Comedy, Drama, Limited/Anthology Series, Televised/Streamed Motion Pictures, Non-Fiction, Game/Competition, Live Entertainment/Variety/Sketch/Talk Series) and Film (Theatrical Motion Picture, Animated Motion Picture, and Documentary) will now close on March 8. Winners of these categories will be announced at the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards on March 19, 2022.
Final ballots for Children’s, Short Form and Sports Programs will close on February 10. Winners of the Sports, Children’s and Short Form categories, as well the PGA Innovation Award, will be announced in Los Angeles and New York at the Guild’s Nominee’s Events the week of March 15th. Exact event dates and locations will be announced soon.
In time for Oct. 7 Anniversary, “We Will Dance Again” Documents Hamas’ Attack On Israel Music Festival
Horror came with sunrise following an all-night rave near the Gaza border on Oct. 7, 2023, the Hamas attack presaged by rockets that some young people mistakenly thought were fireworks.
A new documentary shows the attack unfold over the next hours in stomach-churning detail: Gunmen mowing down passengers in cars that try to escape. Hiding in a garbage dumpster, or a refrigerator, to avoid detection. Live grenades tossed into a bunker, then thrown out seconds before exploding. Terrified hostages carried away to an uncertain fate.
Veteran news producer Susan Zirinsky calls "We Will Dance Again" the most significant project she's ever worked on, notable praise considering her "9/11" film is arguably the best video document of that day.
How much it is seen, however, may depend as much on context as content.
The film is now streaming on the Paramount+ service and debuted last weekend on Showtime, in advance of the attack's one-year anniversary. Distributors acknowledge, however, that it has been a hard sell in markets across the world: many potential outlets and film festivals did not want to wade into a hot-button political issue with war in the Mideast grinding on.
Different openings were made for different markets
A message at the film's beginning acknowledges that the human cost of the Oct. 7 massacre and the war that followed in Gaza "has been catastrophic for both Israelis and Palestinians" and lists the death toll on both sides. "This film cannot tell everyone's story," it says.
The message does not appear, however, when "We Will Dance Again" is screened in Israel.
"We are documenting a moment in history," Zirinsky said. "This is not a political film. This happened."
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