Producers Guild Goes with 'Slumdog', 'WALL-E' and 'Man on Wire'
Are the awards getting too easy to predict?
The Producers Guild of America handed out their awards Saturday night and it's a lot more of the same-old, same-old as Slumdog Millionaire wins the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award, WALL•E wins the Animated award and Man on Wire wins the Documentary Award.
Slumdog Millionaire beat out the likes of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon and Milk and thankfully my Slumdog prediction over at Gold Derby held up, but will my prediction of David Fincher taking the Directors Guild of America Award next Saturday, January 31, hold up?
Tom O'Neil at Gold Derby hasn't posted the rest of the pundits' picks for the DGAs just yet so I will have to wait to see just how my prediction on that one stacks up to everyone else, but 12 of the 17 picking the PGAs went with Slumdog while the other five went with Button.
We'll have to wait and see on that one, but for now here is the complete list from Saturday's PGAs.
The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award Theatrical Motion Pictures
Slumdog Millionaire
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
WALL•E
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
Man on Wire
The David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television
"John Adams"
The Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Television – Drama
"Mad Men" (AMC)
The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television – Comedy
"30 Rock" (NBC)
Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television
"60 Minutes" (CBS)
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Live Entertainment/Competition
"The Colbert Report" (Comedy Central)
Showing 5 Comments
~ PLEASE NOTE ~
If, in any way, your comment is an attack on the author of this post or a previous commenter, your comment will be deleted without question.
Add a New CommentNOTE: The Facebook login option has been disabled. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
Click to Read Our Commenting Rules & Guidelines
The PGA has an animated category too? Well, I guess that will also keep an animated film from also being in the running for the Darryl F. Zanuck theatrical motion picture award.
I will be really, really surprised if your DGA prediction holds up. In spite of its 13 Oscar nods, there doesn't seem to be a lot of passion for CCBB rather an aknowledgement it was a well made movie (evident by its nominations total). I think a lot of the people who would have considered voting for Fincher might decide to be a bit rebelleous and vote for Nolan instead after his Oscar snub which further hurts his chances. I think it will definitely go to Danny Boyle and if it does, yes you're right, it will mean this awards season has been cut and dry (a.k.a. over) for quite some time.
The point of the Academy Awards is that it rewards (or should) the best achievements in filmmaking. It's not a popularity contest and whether you "liked" one film over another. And, although I thought "Slumdog" was a nice little movie, there is no comparison to the extraordinary work done by Fincher on"Benjamin Button" and any other director. He should win the DGA and Academy, and if you really look at what it took to make that movie, it should win most of the rest of it's nominations, including Best Picture…
@Tom:
Movies shouldn't be awarded for the effort that goes into them, they should be awarded for the end result of what ends up on screen (at least in terms of direction and production). The fact that Button was a bigger project than Slumdog says nothing (and I'm not entirely sure that's even true).
I personally thought Slumdog was leaps and bounds a better film than Button, so I will be cheering for Boyle & crew to keep going everywhere and picking up awards. Boyle is doing this with such class (probably because he's never really felt any of this attention before), and Fincher, whose work I have loved in the past, has always seemed like a bit of a prick to me. That's not a good enough reason not to vote for him in my opinion, but I still really want Slumdog to win, and think it will.
Boyle has really done a good job with this movie. While the movie deals with the gory details of the underbelly of Mumbai, it doesnt really leave you with a sick feeling. The story feels like a commentary and at the end you just feel good about the whole movie. Very well done I must say.
The music score by Rehman is amazing, the actors who played junior Jamal and Salim were the real stars. They were simply too good.
I thought Freida was overhyped. She had just 15 mins of screen presence.