We’ve now entered that weird zone between the Oscar nominations and the ceremony itself. Does that mean awards season has slowed down? Quite the contrary! Good luck renting a tux anywhere in Southern California if you haven’t already placed your order.
Saturday night saw the 31st annual Producers Guild Awards at the art deco Hollywood Palladium theater, and A-listers flocked to cheer for the people who actually do the hiring this this town: the producers.
The big winner was Sam Mendes and 1917, suggesting the very real possibility of Oscar glory for the action-packed WWI picture. For the last two years the winner of the top PGA prize, which bears the lofty name of the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, has gone on to win the Academy Award. This year’s contenders for the DFZ mirror those of the Oscars, but with Knives Out thrown in, too, for good measure.
The documentary category significantly differentiated the PGAs from the Oscars, awarding Apollo 11. The marvelous adventure drawn from long-overlooked archival footage, directed and co-produced by Todd Douglas Miller, somehow failed to get an Academy Award nomination. For animated feature, the win went to Toy Story 4, a bump in the road of recent nods for Jérémy Clapin’s I Lost My Body. (The Netflix-released feature was not even nominated by the Producers Guild.)
The PGA ceremony milks the night by having the director or star of each film present their own nominee for the Zanuck award. Greta Gerwig drew cheers with a shout-out to Amy Pascal, whom she said “produced the f***” out of Little Women. Quentin Tarantino joked that he did not personally write the copy about Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood, and read from the teleprompter in a loud, game show host-like demeanor.
With no actors or actresses (or even writers or directors) actually receiving awards (unless they are also producers), the PGAs lean-in to special prizes.
The David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures went to Plan B, better known as Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner. “Spielberg, Grazer, Zanuck, Kennedy. These are just a few of the names I've cheapened tonight by accepting this award,” Pitt joked from the podium. Plan B's titles from the last decade include The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Ad Astra, If Beale Street Could Talk, Okja, Moonlight, The Big Short, 12 Years a Slave, The Tree of Life, and Eat, Pray, Love.
The Visionary Award went to actress and producer Octavia Spencer who spoke through tears, gave a shout-out to longtime pals (and presenters) Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, and remarked “you can't win the race if you're not in it, and that's what people need to remember. You can't just give up on your dreams … even if it takes 20 years to see them realized.”
Winning the Milestone Award, introduced by Jimmy Kimmel, was Netflix head Ted Sarandos who showed off his bonafides by noting that his first ever binge watch was a local television station showing a block of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
The Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television went to Marta Kauffman who was introduced by Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. Kauffman, co-creator of the duo’s Grace and Frankie, plus a little show you may have heard of called Friends, was particularly touched that the award was named for Norman Lear. She said that it was he who gave her her start in the business, getting her out of her “taco-sized” apartment in New York.
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