With all of the shock and disgust awe of the Oscar nominations I’d completely forgotten about the PGA. Tom O’Neil has cornered the market on gathering predictions for these big awards – but we have our little rag tag group of pals anyway. If you are interested in what the Gold Derby folks are predicting, here is the way it’s going down. As I recall, these awards come late, like 11pm or something like that.
Most are predicting Slumdog to take it, but a few are predicting Benjamin Button (which I think is astute, considering its producers).
PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS: PREDICTIONS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” David Carr, Carpetbagger
“The Dark Knight” - Sasha Stone, Kris Tapley
“Frost/Nixon”
“Milk”
“Slumdog Millionaire” – (expected winner), Damien Bona (Inside Oscar) Steve Mason, (Big Hollywood)
Curiously, no one is predicting The Dark Knight. Why? Because it was just given the old heave-ho by the Academy. Could that have really impacted how the PGA voted? If The Dark Knight had been in I can guarantee you more people would be predicting it for this honor and I think I might predict it just to be obstinate because sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to (psst. Slumdog will probably win). Hell, Milk might win. One never knows these things.
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From now on in the season, I will be surprised everytime Slumdog misses somewhere where it was nominated for the big prize.
Gonna have to predict SLUMDOG here …
Should it even be close? The production value on CCOBB, bigger name producers, 150 million budget grossing 110 million by the end of the weekend. Slumdog can’t even match half of CCOBB’s box office gross.
Love Slumdog but let CCOBB reign supreme.
Hell, Milk might win. One never knows these things.
-Yeah, we know Slumdog’s going to win. The thing is, I was lucky enough to see all the ones nominated, and if I had a vote, I WOULD vote for “Milk.” I thought it was the best film of the year.
no slumdog!
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button would please me immensely.
PREDICTION: The Dark Knight would put a smile on my face.
Frost/Nixon would not be the end of the world.
Milk would move me deeply.
Slumdog Millionaire would be acceptable.
I’m hoping for a Dark Knight win here, so the guild can send out a collective Fuck You to the Academy.
I actually think TDK is still gonna take this one.
the oscar really made a huge mistake by not nominating the dark knight every person i talked to are angry and are planning to boycott the oscar, and ever website is pised, even peter travers (rolling stone critic) is pissed that the reader get in over the dark knight. At In contention they’re trying to cool off. Even the variety are a little puzzled by this. Hell even E! are trying to fiqure out this one . I think the oscar really did it this time! I hope they get the messege when they see their rating.
I really hope the guilds flip the bird to AMPAS and give TDK the PGA and DGA. At least the DGA gave Spielberg and Howard the awards after they were snubbed for BD in 85 and 95, so there’s some precedent here at least for Nolan winning (though granted, both their films were BP nominees).
the natural pick would be The Dark Knight, from a producer’s point of view. However the momentum of Slumdog Millionaire makes it the frontrunner.
I’m going with the caped crusader, but I’m really torn here.
If Benjamin Buttom wins this and then gets the DGA, game over.
I’m saying Slumdog.
If it’s Button, I promise a spectacular meltdown.
The PGAs got it right
TDK is probably not being predicted to win PGA because it didn’t win BP at GG or CC and it’s not the frontrunner for any other guild awards. I think PGA is the best shot TDK has at a guild win. Though if the guild was to go with a big production they can reward BB. My guess is they will give the PGA to “Slumdog Millionaire”.
A.M.J.:
Sign me up. I’ve been boycotting the Oscars since they snubbed Brokeback, not because it was the year’s best picture (it was), and not because they chose a lousy instead, but because they broke every precedent in their 77 year history in order to snub it because, as members Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine and “all their friends” (in the Academy) openly, unapologetically said, they wouldn’t even watch the overwhelming frontrunner because “John Wayne would roll over in his grave”. I suspect at least one member of the Academy would have been outraged had they said they wouldn’t watch Dreamgirls or Do the Right Thing because George Wallace or some KKK member would roll over in his grave, but not a peepfrom the Academy on the gay film. Brokeback is the only film to win the Directors, Producers and Writers Guild awards and to lose the Oscar. It is the only film with the most nominations, New York and Los Angeles to lose the Oscar. There are numerous additional permutations and combinations along these lines with Brokeback also winning the Globe, Broadcast crix, most crix Picture/Director prizes ever from Boston to Utah and almost everywhere else to lose the Oscar. It had the highest box office of the nominees too, was the boxofficemojo.com story of the year, and a cultural zeitgeist. I can go on. I’m glad that many are no longer watching on account of The Dark Knight snub – and you should be equally angry by the Wall-E snub – but you should be most outraged by the Brokeback loss whether you likd the film or not, because there is OJ-style overwhelming evidence that Brokeback lost on account of California Prop 8 style prejudice (and/or fear of being perceived as gay-friendly, equally bad and cowardly), which is unacceptable.
I’m saying Slumdog.
If it’s Button, I promise a spectacular meltdown.
Benj, I’d hate to have my vindication at your expense.
So, for your sake, I hope Milk wins the PGA.
It´s Button ou Slumdog.
I vote for Button victory.
I think Sasha is being subjective without being realistic again, it is obvious that she thinks TDK is the best film of all this year, but to predict TDK as the winner of PGA is a bit of a stretch tonight, I would still say Slumdog will be the winner tonight, but if there was a dark horse, I have a feeling it could be milk, but if TDK gets it, that will be fine too, at least that will stop the tears of the TDK fan boys for a little bit and let them have a chance to continue bashing AMPAS. Oh well
A@ #7, Nick K.,
I absolutely agree. Other than sending a message (the Joker would be proud!), the film honestly deserves it.
Why TDK should win?
For the same reasons it should have gotten a Best Picture nomination. Not only is it a successful blockbuster, but it is film that has surpassed its genre in unexpectedly brilliant ways. To make a film on such a grand scale as The Dark Knight is, for one thing, daring. For said film to make millions and to be critically well received is another. TDK has more praise from critics than any other film on the list (save Slumdog), and has made more than quadruple the amount of the second highest grosser (Button’s $103).
The PGA awards are for film productions. If The Dark Knight doesn’t win, I would think Benjamin Button would be the second logical choice. Of course, it depends. They could have seen Slumdog as a small, independent film (which it is) that has grown into a huge mammoth with critics and audiences (which it has), and therefore feel inclined to award it instead of the aforementioned, which are quite lavish in comparison.
I liked Slumdog Millionaire. I liked it, I didn’t love it. I don’t resent its’ success – I’m so glad to see Danny Boyle getting all this attention, at least!
But I don’t mind who wins this…except Slumdog. Now is the time that the guilds have the opportunity to really shake things up. All eyes turn to them, and that is ALL eyes, with only the BAFTA wins to wait upon before the Oscars themselves, and there’s ages to wait for the BAFTAs. Please, please, please, please, please, PGA, anything but Slumdog. I might cry with happiness if it’s either TDK or Milk.
I can’t find the answer on there site, so i’ll ask here…
when will the winner be revelead?
I’m with Nick, here’s to TDK for the win at PGA– not only because I think it’s the best of the five — but an UP YOURS to the Academy!
Deniz, Sasha said that the announcement will probably come late tonight, perhaps around 11pm.
The producers don’t want to say “up yours” to the Academy, quite the contrary. For some reason their taste is still considered the highest in the land. At any rate, Slumdog will win this and go on to win the DGA and then the Oscar. It is a done deal.
Not if Harvey Weinstein has anything to say about it!
The announcement would be around 11pm on the West coast? Is that correct?
I wouldn’t mind any of these five winning, actually. I agree with Paul Outlaw’s lineup. There isn’t one that would enrage me and make me think it didn’t deserve it. I can’t think of a year when that happened.
I still think Button is the frontrunner.
After it, Slumdog.
But, whoo knows?
In the end.. Nobody knows anything.
I think that the winner would be Benjamin Button, the production of the film is espectacular and none of the others deserves more then BB!
Slumdog Millionaire at the PGAs.
At the SAGs, Double win for Kate Winslet, Mickey Rourke for lead actor, Heath Ledger for supporting actor, Doubt for ensemble.
Hey, where’s predict the SAGs contest? This is my last log for today, I won’t be able to join.
Definitely Slumdog will and should win. It’s quite a cinematic achievement, telling what on the surface seems to be a ridiculous story into a masterpiece. I would also be happy if Milk won, but I don’t think it deserves it as much.
TDK is good, and it is also quite a cinematic achievement. I wouldn’t mind if it won, but honestly, do people on here feel it should win because it’s the best or just because the academy didn’t nominate it? And what’s with all the “and it made more money than any other movie this year” crap. I don’t even want to go into what kind of movies would have been up for best picture over the years if that was the criteria.
You’re gonna bitch about The Dark Knight in all of your posts from now on right? As someone writing in a so called serious website, you should respect the fact that not everyone is as disgusted as you by The Dark Knight being snubbed.
If you slap a troll named “Hebrew,” is it a hate crime?
Yeah troll… I don’t really give a shit if you get worked up over what I posted, sorry to break it to you.
I kinda agree with Hebrew. TDK didnt make it at the Oscars, youve had your dummy spits and time to move on…
…to another website!
So basically you’re saying that everything but Frost/Nixon might win?
Well, I know not everyone is as outraged at TDK missing out. That’s fine. That’s only half, maybe even a fourth, of why I’m so angry. I’m livid because I saw THE READER last weekend, and it is beyond me why it was nominated for either Picture or Director, not to mention both.
There are a good ten films that are better than this. Winslet was great, so was the (snubbed) makeup. But the movie and the direction were forgettable. And when you compare it to TDK, yeah, people, myself included, will continue to bitch about this for a while, because it’s just so damn stupid.
Geez, when are these things announced?
Oscar snubs for your favorite films and actors hurt. Doubly so when it appears something as eh as The Reader is what kept a fav out. I’m not even a TDK fan and I feel the Academy played it ridiculously safe to the point of noticeability. Similar to how I felt after BBM lost to Crash, even though I thought BBM was tremendously overrated. The Academy will do what the Academy will do, but believing that isn’t the same as accepting what they do uncoditionally.
As someone writing in a so called serious website, you should respect the fact that not everyone is as disgusted as you by The Dark Knight being snubbed.
I never claimed this was a serious website. Did I? Serious is not a word I would use to describe Oscar blogging. I can think of a lot of masturbation metaphors though.
” I can think of a lot of masturbation metaphors though.”
I’m listening…
Someone informed Oscar Buzz that Wall*E, John Adams, and 30 Rock won so far!!!!!!
Is this anything?
If I’m reading the trophy right, that’s the award we’re interested in. Not sure if that’s Christian Colson, but Slumdog Millionaire is the only nominee with just one credited producer.
But I can’t read the date! I don’t even know if it’s the right year.
Okay, I’m pretty sure that’s not him. Must be another year.
Thank you Waltizzle!
I don’t know Benj. Could be. Looks weird though. Nomination plaque?
That shot IS dated.
That’s Doug Wick when he won for Gladiator.
Remember when the DGA spazzed us out with the photos of nomination plaques, that one year? As I recall, a lot of us flew into a tizzy thinking P. Jackson had won for FOTR. What a letdown that was.
@ Craig: Oh, wow. I was going through old winners, looking up photos to compare, but I didn’t even go back that far. Thanks for the info.
so theyre on NOW?? Is there a live blog or webcast???
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