Nominations for this years Producers Guild Awards were released on Friday, giving prognosticators perhaps the most solid look yet at which films could make up this years best-picture race. The usual front-runners are all in contention, including Black Panther, A Star Is Born, and Roma. However, there are also a few surprises among the selections, including crowd-pleasers A Quiet Place and Crazy Rich Asians—both of which cleaned up at the box office and are spending the afterglow lapping up awards-season accolades.
Other film nominees for this years PGAs, which are set to take place in January 19 in Los Angeles, include Vice (a late, but subsequently relentless entry into the awards season conversation), Green Book, BlacKkKlansman, and The Favourite. Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic starring Rami Malek as the late Freddie Mercury, also landed a nod. That musical film received lukewarm reception from critics upon its release, but it has been rapturously successful at the box office, recently becoming the highest-grossing music biopic of all time. Malek has received the lions share of awards and nominations in these last few months, including a Golden Globe nomination for best actor. While the PGAs arent a foolproof guide to which films will make it all the way to the Oscars, they are a pretty useful measure, particularly because the voting pool overlaps with Academy voters. The usual front-runners, plus some hopeful wild cards always make the cut; last years hopeful titles included Wonder Woman, which was ultimately snubbed by the Oscars.
This years PGAs will also hand out special honors to Toby Emmerich (the Milestone Award), Kevin Feige (the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), Kenya Barris (Visionary Award), and Jane Fonda (Stanley Kramer Award).
The Producers Guilds TV nominations were also announced Friday, handing out nods to shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Good Place, Atlanta, and Barry. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was also nominated in the best nonfiction category, continuing the shows bittersweet success this awards cycle.
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