The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures is usually a strong sign of who might win best picture at the Oscars.
This is because both the Producers Guild and the Academy have similar numbers of members and both use the same type of voting system called the weighted preferential ballot. The nominees for this award were Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Train Dreams, and Weapons. One Battle After Another won the award.
In his acceptance speech, he said, “You’ve heard their names over and over again.
They should get an award for enduring a lot on the road to get these films made. You kept your head down and you protected me; Ryan [Coogler], I’ll speak for you, protected Ryan, protected Zach [Creggar]. You’ve done an incredible job protecting us.” He continued, “That’s real producing too — getting us out of the gate, letting us do our work, protecting us through the distribution and leading us here. And so whatever the road lies ahead, your work this year is so spectacular. I share this with you. None of us could have done this without the two of you guys and the entire team that you have around you. Long may you wave, whatever the future holds. It is one battle after another.”
A total of 10 categories were announced, along with awards for animated movies and a wide range of TV programs.
KPop Demon Hunters, The Pitt, The Studio, My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert are among those who also won trophies.
Four awards were given out before the ceremony on Saturday night.
These included Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Sesame Street, Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence, and The Wizard of Oz as earlier winners. In addition to the competitive awards, three special honors were given: Amy Pascal received the David O. Selznick Award, Jason Blum got the Milestone Award, and Mara Brock Akil was honored with the Norman Lear Award.
Presenters at this year’s awards included Amy Madigan, Delroy Lindo, Elle Fanning, Emily V. Gordon, Greta Gerwig, Ike Barinholtz, Jacob Elordi, Jason Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Joachim Trier, Kate Hudson, Kerry Condon, Kumail Nanjiani, Lisa Gilroy, Mariska Hargitay, Michael Keaton, Odessa A’zion, Paul Mescal, Ralph Farquhar, Regina Hall, Seth Rogen, Teyana Taylor, Thomas Lennon, Vinny Thomas, Wagner Moura, William H. Macy, and Wumni Mosaku.
PGA executive director Susan Sprung started the evening by acknowledging the recent events in the Middle East and “praying for peace.”
She also mentioned the recent deal for Paramount to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, saying, “I know all of us are also thinking about the future of one of our most storied studios and its implications for our industry more broadly. Please note that the guild’s position has not changed. We will continue to call on regulators for the scrutiny and ultimately the safeguards and protections that producers need, that everyone in this business deserves, and that are the right of those who consume what we create. The vitality of our industry is at stake, and on that, producers will not be silent.”
Ralph Farquhar was on hand to present to Brock Akil, who said, “I have spent over three decades working inside systems that were not built with me in mind — learning them, navigating them, stretching them.
I am deeply grateful to every collaborator, every writer in every writers room, every cast and crew member who trusted me with their talent, their time, and their dreams.”
Later in the show, Barry Diller presented to Blum, as the horror mogul said, “We’re living at this time where machines are very confident that they can pick what will work, that algorithms can tell us everything we’ve ever watched and what we should watch next, and AI can tell us what to stream in the mood we’re in next Tuesday.
But what machines can’t do?” He then brought up the success of Heated Rivalry, noting, “If you would ask an algorithm a few months ago to predict a low-budget gay hockey romance with zero known stars, I promise you the algorithm would have been like, don’t make that show. But that’s why Heated Rivalry needed us. It needed producers.” Blum added that he even invited the hit show’s producers to be his guests at the show, but they were in New York to watch Connor Storrie host SNL.
To close out the night, Greta Gerwig presented Pascal with her special honor, saying, “The person I dreamed I would meet when I came to Hollywood: a gorgeous, wild, genius woman.”
Pascal had the crowd laughing with her speech, especially when she said, “The way I became a producer was pretty fucked, and then I got lucky, and then it was all really hard anyway.” She continued that being a producer is full of challenges, including “knowing that no matter how bad things get, how many mistakes you made, how many failures you have, it’s never really over, no matter what anyone tells you.”
A complete list of this year’s winners follows.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Nominees: TBD
Elio
Nominee: Mary Alice Drumm, p.g.a.
KPop Demon Hunters
Nominee: Michelle L.M. Wong, p.g.a. (WINNER)
Zootopia 2
Nominee: Yvett Merino, p.g.a.
Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
Andor
The Diplomat
The Pitt (WINNER)
Pluribus
Severance
The White Lotus
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
The Bear
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building
South Park
The Studio (WINNER)
David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television
Adolescence (WINNER)
The Beast in Me
Black Mirror
Black Rabbit
Dying for Sex
Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
The Gorge
John Candy: I Like Me (WINNER)
Mountainhead
Nonnas
Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
aka Charlie Sheen
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Mr. Scorsese
Pee-wee as Himself (WINNER)
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (WINNER)
SNL50: The Anniversary Special
Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
The Amazing Race
Jeopardy!
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Traitors (WINNER)
Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
The Alabama Solution (HBO Documentary Films)
Cover-Up (Netflix)
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (Made in Copenhagen)
My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay (HBO Documentary Films) (WINNER)
Ocean with David Attenborough (National Geographic)
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)
The Tale of Silyan (National Geographic)
No comments:
Post a Comment