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September 21, 2009
PGA Goes To 10 Too!
The Press Release...
PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS EXPAND NOMINATIONS IN BEST PRODUCED MOTION PICTURE CATEGORY TO INCLUDE TEN FILMS
LOS ANGELES (September 21, 2009) – The Producers Guild of America announced today that the 2010 PGA Awards nominations in the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures Category will be expanded from five to ten films. The 10 nominees will be announced on Tuesday, January 5, 2010. The 21st Annual PGA Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, January 24, 2010, and will be held once again at the Hollywood Palladium.
“The PGA board approved the expansion of our Best Produced Picture category nominations to support our colleagues at the Academy, but also because we feel it better represents the unprecedented diversity of films being produced today,” said PGA President Marshall Herskovitz.
“We’re excited to involve even more industry members in this year’s event, as having 10 Best Produced Picture nominees allows us to recognize even more extraordinary films,” said David Friendly and Laurence Mark, co-chairs of the PGA Awards. “The PGA Awards ceremony is the only night of the year that celebrates the meaningful contributions of producers across all mediums.”
So much for pretending that it's not all about The Oscars.
So what does this mean?
Not a lot.
PGA is kind of putting itself in an interesting spot by doing this. The long-standing tradition of PGA has been that their nominees almost always represent 4 of the 5 Oscar nominees... and that if you aren't PGA nominated, winning Oscar is highly unlikely, even though the PGA winner and the Oscar winner often do not match.
PGA started giving a movie award in 1990 and didn't start having 5 nominees until 1998, so the history is brief. In those first 8 years, PGA just gave the award, sometimes with one other nominee, and was 7 of 8 in predicting the Oscar BP winner. In the 12 years since, no film has won the Oscar BO without being PGA nominated, even as the PGA track record vs Oscar BP became just 7 of 12 (58%).
Interesting cases include no PGA nods for Oscar nominees that many felt might have been dark horse Oscar winners like Atonement, Letters From Iwo Jima, Ray, Lost In Translation, The Pianist, The Sixth Sense, and Elizabeth.
Going to 10 along with the AMPAS seems to be a bid to maintain that status as the "must get nominated by" guild if you want to win Oscar. PGA will give out its awards the night AFTER the Oscar nomination voting closes. That's kinda interesting. But as noted, the winner doesn't have that much influence. It's the nominations that Hollywood worries about.
So now there will be 10 nominees. PGA is much less likely to miss a late season shift in status. The guild has already shown itself to be willing to make leaps to animation or foreign language, so their nods are often interesting. I suspect that we may see 2 PGA nominees in animation and at least one foreign language film in their 10 this year... and all 5 front-runners as perceived at the top of the year.
Posted by dpoland at September 21, 2009 11:41 AM
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“The PGA board approved the expansion of our Best Produced Picture category nominations to support our colleagues at the Academy, but also because we feel it better represents the unprecedented diversity of films being produced today"
Then why not more than one winner, eh diversity?
Posted by: Hallick ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 21, 2009 05:21 PM
Who will be the first to go up to 11?
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Posted by: Foamy Squirrel at September 22, 2009 02:52 AM
"Who will be the first to go up to 11?"
(from a future New York Film Critics Circle press release)
"...So, in tribute a modern film classic, the NYFCC will be going 'one louder' than other film critic group awards with the addition of an 11TH BEST PICTURE NOMINEE TO ITS BALLOT..."
Posted by: Hallick at September 22, 2009 06:44 AM
"I suspect that we may see 2 PGA nominees in animation and at least one foreign language film in their 10 this year..."
hearing waves that Frog Princess is BP good? or do you expect Fox to get awards love?
Posted by: movielocke at September 23, 2009 01:36 PM
I nominate MEGAN FOX for my TOP FIVE.
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
I'd like to be inside her PGA if you know what I mean.
THAT WAS GREAT.
Posted by: LexG at September 24, 2009 04:03 AM
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