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The Producers Guild of America is changing how it awards distinguished producing for longform TV and movies at its PGA Awards. The guild’s David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer in Long-Form Television has been renamed The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television, while a new…

Will this be the year of the recessive movie male? It's much too early to tell with any certainty, as it only takes a few powerful contenders to set what seems to be a mood for an awards season. In the last round, it only became clear with the Producers Guild of America nominations in early January that, Dunkirk and Da…

The Producers Guild said its 30th annual PGA Awards are set for Saturday, January 19, 2019 at the Beverly Hilton. Donald De Line and Amy Pascal return as awards chairs for a third consecutive year. Submissions are now open in all categories — Motion Pictures, Television Series/Specials, Long and Short Form Television…

The Producers Guild of America honored Ryan Murphy with its Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television at this year’s PGA Awards. Accepting from his friend and frequent collaborator Gwyneth Paltrow, Murphy hat-tipped the award’s namesake. "That's what I want to do – I want to touch people,” said Murphy, recalling the…

UPDATED with final results: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water solidified its status as an Oscar Best Picture frontrunner in a season where there are several, taking home the top honor at the 29th annual PGA Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton. On the TV side, a pair of streaming series rookies — Amazon’s comedy…

Ava DuVernay was presented with the Visionary Award tonight at the PGA Awards by her Wrinkle in Time star Reese Witherspoon, but when taking the stage she shifted the focus off of her and used the opportunity to talk about social awareness, inclusion, and to remember the late Allison Shearmur. “I was excited to come…

The Producers Guild of America honored Charles Roven tonight with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award. “I’ve had many great experiences in this room, starting with my bar mitzvah,” Roven said after Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins introduced him. “I literally became a man on this stage.” He continues, “I…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Charles Roven was honored by his peers tonight at the Producers Guild of America Awards with the 2018 David O. Selznick Achievement Award bestowed for his body of work — a long career that began about 34 years ago with his first film Heart Like A Wheel. His resume now includes everything from 12 Mo…

Hollywood legend Norman Lear took the stage to present the 2018 Producers Guild Stanley Kramer Award to Jordan Peele’s Get Out tonight at the PGA Awards, calling the film “terrifying and groundbreaking.” He added, “It’s a horror movie where a black guy isn’t the first one killed.” “Ummm…alright, that’s cool,” said…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. With the all-important, and perhaps foretelling, Producers Guild Awards on Saturday followed by the SAG Awards on Sunday the Oscar race is at boiling point. But of course the really big event is Tuesday morning, when nominations are revealed for the…

UPDATED, 12:35 PM: The Producers Guild just announced the eligible feature documentary and TV producers who are nominated for its 29th annual PGA Awards. The list below has been updated with the added names; look for program nominees marked with an asterisk (*). PREVIOUSLY, January 5: The Producers Guild of America…

Reuben, I have long been thinking, what a good world this might be, if the men were all transported far beyond the Northern Sea. That's from "Reuben and Rachel" (music by William Gooch, lyrics by Harry Birch, 1871), a song the nuns used to teach us about a thousand years ago. But it also pretty much describes what…