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The Producers Guild of America on Monday revealed the 10 scripted producers and producing teams that will participate in its inaugural PGA Create, a lab for emerging and mid-career creative producers from underrepresented backgrounds. The lab will be held October 25-28, during which time participants will be able to…

The Producers Guild of America has revealed the 10 producers and producing teams set to take part in PGA Create, its inaugural lab for emerging and midcareer creative producers that focuses on supporting producers from underrepresented backgrounds. Set to run October 25-28, PGA Create will showcase creative producers…

The Producers Guild of America has finalized its 2021-22 awards-season plans, and there’s nothing virtual about it. The group has set its 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards for Saturday, February 26, at the Fairmont Century Plaza, and its film and marquee television nominations will be revealed on Thursday, January…

Emerging and mid-career producers from underrepresented backgrounds in the industry are being targeted by a new program, PGA Create, announced today by the Producers Guild of America. The immersive lab is designed for producers in active development, financing, or packaging of a feature or series and is led by the…

UPDATE, with Equity statement The Producers Guild of America is expanding its Independent Production Safety Initiative to include anti-bullying trainings "with the goal of eliminating workplace violence and aggression." The move comes in the wake of bullying accusations against Broadway and Oscar-winning movie…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. I always say the precursor awards that really count if you want to figure out who is going to turn out to be an Oscar winner are the various guild awards, which got underway in earnest this week. Their membership inevitably overlaps with that of the…

The Producers Guild of America’s 32nd annual PGA Awards handed Searchlight Pictures’ Nomadland its marquee honor tonight, bestowing the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures on the Chloé Zhao film that has been on a roll since taking the top awards at Venice and Toronto when it…

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s Oscar nominees Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Sacha Baron Cohen, Carey Mulligan, Steven Yeun, Amanda Seyfried and Paul Raci are among those who have been added as presenters for the the Producers Guild’s 32nd annual PGA Awards, which will take place later this week in a virtual ceremony. Others…

Nominees for the Producers Guild of America Darryl F. Zanuck award each had challenges financing their nominated films. They detailed their stories in a PGA panel on Saturday. Sound of Metal producer Sacha Ben Harroche said financing fell through multiple times. Harroche said many financiers were promising…

Producers of One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman, and Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm spoke about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their films at a panel staged by the Producers Guild. Miami producer Jess Wu Calder, Woman producer Ashley Fox and Borat producer Monica Levinson participated in a Producers Guild of…

Monica Levinson, producer of Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, said the film's infamous Rudy Giuliani scene was even more harrowing for the filmmakers after the former mayor left the hotel room. The film features a scene in which Giuliani goes to the hotel bedroom with Maria Bakalova after an interview, appearing to expect…

When the American Film Institute released their AFI Top 10 Films of the Year list last month, five of the top 10 were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts, a breakthrough for diversity in the Black filmmaking community on a par with nothing else I can remember when it comes to year-end awards…