Weapons, F1, Sinners and More

The Producers Guild of America unveiled its nominees for the thirty seventh Annual Producers Guild Awards, setting the stage for the Oscar race for best image.

The guild’s marquee prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, is widely considered one among the strongest predictors of Oscar success. Seventeen of the past 22 Zanuck winners have gone on to win best image at the Academy Awards, underscoring the PGA’s affect as the race enters its final stretch.

This 12 months’s top class lineup at PGA represents a competitive and dynamic area of status auteurs and business successes, with Warner Bros. dominating the lineup with three entries and sharing a fourth with a co-distributor. The nominees are:

Warner Bros. landed anticipated nods for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” each of which have paced nomination tallies throughout the season. The studio also earned recognition for Zach Cregger’s genre-bending “Weapons” and shared in the nomination for Joseph Kosinski’s “F1,” which was produced and financed by Apple Original Films.

The area also delivered notable boosts for Clint Bentley’s indie drama “Train Dreams” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ darkish comedy “Bugonia.” After lacking out at the Actor Awards, Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” stays in competition, joined by Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme” and Chloe Zhao’s literary adaptation “Hamnet.”

Among the notable omissions had been Universal Pictures’ box workplace juggernaut “Wicked: For Good,” following a nomination for its first installment last 12 months. “Sentimental Value” was the only non-English-language movie to make the lower, leaving out Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.” Also lacking had been James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and Craig Brewer’s “Song Sung Blue.”

In animation, the PGA area featured a mixture of studio sequels and daring originals, including “The Bad Guys 2,” “Elio,” “KPop Demon Hunters,” “Zootopia 2” and the anime epic “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle.”

On the tv facet, status drama remained dominant. The Norman Felton Award nominees for episodic drama embody “Andor,” “The Diplomat,” “The Pitt,” “Pluribus,” “Severance” and “The White Lotus.” Comedy contenders for the Danny Thomas Award span buzzy favorites such as “The Bear,” “Hacks” and “Only Murders in the Building,” alongside the long-running “South Park.”

Limited and anthology sequence nominees embody “Adolescence,” “Black Mirror,” “Black Rabbit,” “Dying for Sex” and “The Beast in Me,” highlighting the continued strength of the format across streaming platforms.

The guild also acknowledged producers across televised and streamed movies, non-fiction programming, live and selection tv, and competitors sequence. Nominees in those classes embody “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” “Mr. Scorsese,” “SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night,” “The Daily Show,” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and “The Traitors.”

With Oscar nomination voting starting Monday, the PGA Awards as soon as again loom as a essential bellwether in an more and more crowded and unpredictable awards season. The ceremony will likely be held Feb. 28 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.