It was surprisingly easy to pick nine out of the ten Best Picture nominees for the Producers Guild, which means we will probably have a lot of winners in our contest. What this means is what it seems to mean every year: our method for finding the popular films in a consensus vote is pretty much right on. If you look at Gurus of Gold, for instance, you’ll see these...
“Argo” (Warner Bros.) Producers: Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Producers: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn “Django Unchained” (The Weinstein Company) Producers: Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone, Stacey Sher “Les Misérables” (Universal Pictures) Producers: Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner,...
Awards Daily’s Predict the Producers Guild contest now open for business! Back in 1994 and before that, the Producers Guild nominees matched the Oscar Best Picture five fairly well. But since 1995 and onward, there has been at least one mismatch. Usually the end of December would represent the earlier part of the race but this year everything is smushed together...
The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama: “Breaking Bad” (AMC) Producers: Melissa Bernstein, Sam Catlin, Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Mark Johnson, Stewart Lyons, Michelle MacLaren, George Mastras, Diane Mercer, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett “Downton Abbey” (PBS) Producers: Julian Fellowes, Gareth Neame,...