Producers Guild of America to honor “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” with the 2010 Stanley Kramer Award

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 26, 2009 under Awards | Comments are off for this article

Mariah Carey (as Mrs. Weiss, left) and Gabourey Sidibe (as Precious, right) in PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE Photo credit : Anne Marie Fox

Mariah Carey (as Mrs. Weiss, left) and Gabourey Sidibe (as Precious, right) in PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE Photo credit : Anne Marie Fox

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced  that PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE will be honored with the 2010 Stanley Kramer Award. The film’s producers will be honored with the award at the 21st Annual PGA Awards ceremony on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium.

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“Slumdog Millionaire” Wins Top PGA Producer of the Year Award

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 25, 2009 under Awards | Comments are off for this article

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“Slumdog Millionaire” on Saturday walked away with the Producers Guild of America Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award. The award went to producer Christian Colson.

Other PGA award winners announced during the ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium:

- For Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Jim Morris, “Wall-E”

- For Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures: Simon Chinn, “Man on Wire”

- For Long-Form Television: David Coatsworth, Frank Doelger, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Steven Sareshian, “John Adams”

- For Television-Drama: Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher, “Mad Men”

- For Television-Comedy: Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey, Marci Klein, Robert Carlock, Jeff Richmond, Jerry Kupfer, David Miner, “30 Rock.”

- For Non-Fiction Television: Jeff Fager, “60 Minutes”

- For Live Entertainment/Competition: Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, Jon Stewart, Allison Silverman, Richard Dahm, Meredith Bennett, Tom Purcell, “The Colbert Report”

The PGA also honored Brian Grazer and Ron Howard with the Milestone Award; Michael Douglas received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures and David Chase earned the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. The Stanley Kramer Award went to “Milk’; MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe were the recipients of the Vanguard Award and producer Jeff Skoll was honored with the Visionary Award.

Note to “Slumdog Millionaire” the PGA Award has also become a reliable bellwether for the best picture Oscar – 12 of the winners over the past 19 years have gone on to win the Academy Award’s top honor, including last year’s recipient “No Country for Old Men.”  [via]

Producers Guild of America Nominees for 2009

Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 6, 2009 under Awards | Comments are off for this article

The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall
Ceán Chaffin

THE DARK KNIGHT
Christopher Nolan
Charles Roven
Emma Thomas

FROST/NIXON
Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
Eric Fellner

MILK
Dan Jinks
Bruce Cohen

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Christian Colson

The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures

MAN ON WIRE
Simon Chinn

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (pictured)
Julie Bilson Ahlberg
Errol Morris

TROUBLE THE WATER
Carl Deal
Tia Lessin

The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

BOLT
Clark Spencer

KUNG FU PANDA
Melissa Cobb

WALL-E
Jim Morris

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