Awards Season 2026: Producers Guild Awards (PGA), and Actor Award Winners

We are getting to the sharp end of the 2026 awards season, my loves. Over this weekend, two major guilds have handed out their awards, which are definitely cementing a couple of films and performers as this year's Oscar winners in my mind. 

So, as they say in Mulan, let's get down to business!

PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS (PGA)

The 37th Producers Guild Awards (PGA) were handed out on Saturday 28th February. The film winners are:

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: One Battle After Another

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures: My Mom Jayne 

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: KPop Demon Hunters

I don't think, at this stage in proceedings, One Battle After Another's win is going to surprise anyone. Maybe the win for KPop Demon Hunters over Zootopia 2 might be considered a surprise, but honestly I'm not that sure. It's been an absolute cultural juggernaut since it debuted, and it's pretty much guaranteed for some Oscars love in two weeks' time (it's almost definitely going to win Best Original Song). 

If you're wondering, My Mom Jayne is a documentary by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress Mariska Hargitay about her mother, the iconic Jayne Mansfield (who tragically died when Mariska was only three years old). 

* * *

ACTOR AWARDS

The 32nd Actors Awards were held last night (Sunday 1st March) in a ceremony which streamed live on Netflix, hosted by Kristen Bell for the third time. 

Here are the film winners:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Sinners

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Amy Madigan (Weapons)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning

Well, now, this is interesting. Apart from Jessie Buckley, not what I expected to see from SAG at all. That said, last year, Timothée Chalamet won the Best Actor award for A Complete Unknown, throwing a bit of a curveball - although the Oscar ended up going to Adrien Brody. I'd say the momentum is still in Chalamet's corner but who can say? Academy voting is still open, however, closing on Thurday (5th March) so will these results sway those still on the fence? The supporting acting categories are still wide open, which might make for some interesting results come Oscar night. 

Ryan Coogler becomes the first director to direct two separate Best Cast-winning ensembles (Black Panther took the top prize in 2019) and Harrison Ford received the Life Achievement Award. 

Congratulations to all winners!

So where does that leave us? The only other major award I'll be covering before the 98th Academy Awards will be the Razzies, which will be handed out on Saturday 14th March.

Awards Season 2026: Directors Guild Awards (DGA), and Producers Guild Awards (PGA) Nominations

So the last little bit of catch-up admin I wanted to do before I do my Oscar nominations predictions was to detail and briefly discuss the nominations from two of the major guilds which came out last week. These will certainly help with my predictions for two major categories, being as they are the nominations from the Directors Guild Awards and the Producers Guild Awards. 

DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS (DGA)

The film nominees for the 78th Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards were announced on Thursday 8th January 2026:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)

Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film

Hasan Hadi (The President's Cake)

Harry Lighton (Pillion)

Charlie Polinger (The Plague)

Alex Russell (Lurker)

Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary 

Mstyslav Chernov (2000 Meters to Andriivka)

Geeta Gandbhir (The Perfect Neighbor)

Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni (Cutting Through Rocks)

Elizabeth Lo (Mistress Dispeller)

Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus (Cover-Up)

In my mind, Anderson, Coogler, del Toro, and Zhao are virtually confirmed for the Oscar nod; the sticking point is going to be whether Safdie joins them or whether the fifth place will go to Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value. Whilst Trier misses out here, he has received Best Director nods at the Critics' Choice and the Golden Globes. Safdie also received a nod at the Critics' Choice. Either way, it feels a bit superfluous to be worrying: it's almost certainly going to be Paul Thomas Anderson who wins in the end. 

The DGA Awards ceremony is on Saturday 7th February 2026.

* * *

PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS (PGA)

The film nominees for the 37th Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards were announced on Friday 9th January 2026:

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Bugonia

F1

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Train Dreams

Weapons

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

The Bad Guys 2

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle 

Elio

KPop Demon Hunters

Zootopia 2

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures 

(previously announced)

The Alabama Solution

Cover-Up

Mr Nobody Against Putin

My Mom Jayne

Ocean with David Attenborough

The Perfect Neighbor

The Tale of Silyan

So the surprises here are F1 and Weapons; for the rest of awards season, the latter has been flagged up for Amy Madigan's performance whilst the former has been recognised in many below-the-line technical awards (usually sound and editing). It's the first either film has received a Best Picture equivalent nod. I don't know if the Academy will necessarily follow suit but we have less than a week to find out. 

The PGA Awards will be handed out on Saturday 28th February 2026.

Before I forget, there's one last stop we will be making on the awards season trail before we get to the Oscar nominations, and that will be the nominations for this year's Razzies which- as is tradition- are due out the day before the Oscar nominations (so the cinematic crocks of crap they're dishonouring will be revealed on Wednesday 21st January 2026). 

As I now have all the information I will have to do my Oscar nomination predictions, I might do them early next week rather than waiting til Wednesday. Keep your eyes out for them.  

Awards Season 2025: Producers Guild Awards (PGA), and Directors Guild Awards (DGA) Winners

It's a two-for-one on guild awards nonsense today, folks, and it means we are a bit closer to working out what might get Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars in just over three weeks' time. So let's get on with it!

DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS

On Saturday 8th February 2025, the Directors' Guild Awards (DGA) were handed out. The film winners are:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Films: Sean Baker (Anora)

Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film: RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev (Porcelain War)

Cat, meet pigeons... this is a bit of a surprise for me, as- if you read the last post- you'll know I was fully expecting Brady Corbet to win for The Brutalist (following on from his Golden Globes win and cementing his place as frontrunner for the Little Naked Gold Man). Now this has made things a bit more interesting. Always fun when awards season feels more like a contest and less like a coronation. But surely that's where the surprises end, right?

--------------

PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS (PGA)

The 36th Producers Guild Awards (PGA) were also handed out on Saturday 8th February. The film winners are:

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: Anora

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: The Wild Robot

Wrong! For both major guilds, whose membership body aligns very closely with the voting members of the Academy, to pick Anora as their winner has shaken things up a bit. Whilst neither guild has a 100% record of going with the Academy's eventual winner, it's telling and gives a bit of pause to those prognosticators and psephologists who may have assumed this was all a done deal. It isn't over until the presenter says "And the Oscar goes to..."

Congratulations to all winners!

Up next this awards season, we have the Writers Guild Awards (WGA) next Saturday (15th February 2025) and the BAFTA Film Awards next Sunday (16th February 2025).  

Awards Season 2025: Writers' Guild Awards (WGA), and Producers Guild Awards (PGA) Nominations

As I noted at the end of the blogpost yesterday, there were still a couple of the guild award nominations due to be announced, having been postponed from their original announcement dates due to the LA wildfires. Well, with little fanfare, they have both now been announced. 

WRITERS GUILD AWARDS (WGA)

This year's nominees for the WGA Awards were announced yesterday afternoon (15th January). Here they are:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

A Real Pain

Anora

Challengers

Civil War

My Old Ass

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

A Complete Unknown

Dune: Part Two

Hit Man

Nickel Boys

Wicked

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY

Jim Henson: Idea Man

Kiss The Future

Martha

War Game

I don't ever try to predict any of the nominees for the screenplay categories, but I do have an interest on which scripts get nominated. Last year, the WGA announced their nominees and winners outside of the usual awards season window, so I didn't end up including them in my countdown (for anyone interested, the winners were The Holdovers for Original Screenplay, American Fiction for Adapted Screenplay, and The Pigeon Tunnel [about John le Carré] for Documentary)

However, the WGA Awards aren't as good a predictor as some other guild awards because of the eligibility criteria to be nominated for one. Eligibility for the Writers Guild Awards is restricted to screenplays that were written under the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement or under related agreements from affiliated international guilds.

This does mean that many screenplays that are eligible to be nominated for the Oscars aren't eligible for the WGA Awards. So, for instance, the screenplays for a lot of movies that have featured heavily in other awards ceremonies won't get a WGA nod: these include (deep breath) The Brutalist, The Substance, Hard Truths, September 5, All We Imagine As Light, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Sing Sing, I’m Still Here, The Piano Lesson, Inside Out 2, The Outrun, Nosferatu, Nightbitch, Saturday Night, Babygirl, and Heretic. Given that there are only five slots in each category (Original and Adapted), there's a lot of these movie that won't get a look-in. But it'll be interesting to see how the Academy goes with it. 

The Writers Guild Awards will take place on Saturday 15th February 2025. 

PRODUCERS' GUILD AWARDS (PGA)

This year's PGA Awards nominees were announced today (16th January). The film nominees are as follows:

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Anora

A Complete Unknown

A Real Pain

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

September 5

The Substance

Wicked

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

Flow

Inside Out 2

Moana 2

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures 

(previously announced)

Gaucho Gaucho

Mediha

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

Porcelain War

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

We Will Dance Again

The inclusion of September 5 and A Real Pain is a bit of a surprise in the "Theatrical Motion Picture" category, as (in terms of Best Picture nods) they only featured as nominees at the Golden Globes but have been absent elsewhere, whereas films such as Sing Sing and Nickel Boys have appeared more frequently (with both garnering Critics' Choice and Independent Spirit Award noms).

However, with the exception of last year, the ten PGA and ten Oscar Best Picture nominees aren't always 100% identical. There's usually around an 80% crossover, which I see potentially happening here. 

Chuffed to see both Inside Out 2 and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl included in the "Animated Theatrical Motion Picture" category; I thoroughly enjoyed both films. I am intrigued to try and see Flow if I can as it sounds very interesting. 

The PGA Awards ceremony is due to take place on Saturday 8th February 2025.

Congratulations to all nominees!

I think, if all is up-to-date, our next Awards Season stop is going to be the announcement of the Razzie Awards nominations on Wednesday (22nd January). I'm fully expecting to see Joker: Folie à Deux, Madame Web, and Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II (yep, they made a sequel) getting dishonoured. Should provide a bit of levity if nothing else. 

Awards Season 2024: Awards Winners Round-Up

Due to a combination of factors (don't you just hate it when life gets in the way?), I've not been up to updating the awards season tracker. But time stands still for no nerd, which means that in the meantime, no less than five (yes, five) of the major awards bodies have handed out their gold/silver/glassware. 

So brace yourself for a positive deluge of awards results, and get ready to see a lot of the same names over and over again. Let's begin!

DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS

On Saturday 10th February 2024, the Directors' Guild Awards (DGA) were handed out. The film winners are:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Films: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director: Celine Song (Past Lives) 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: Mstyslav Chernov (20 Days In Mariupol)

--------------

BAFTA FILM AWARDS

On Sunday 18th February 2024, the 77th British Academy Film Awards were given out in a star-studded ceremony, hosted for the first time by David Tennant (who made for a very affable and enjoyable host). 

Here's a full list of BAFTA winners.

Best Film: Oppenheimer

Outstanding British Film: The Zone Of Interest

Leading Actor: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Leading Actress: Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Director: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Original Screenplay: Anatomy Of A Fall

Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer: Savanah Leaf (writer/director/producer), Shirley O’Connor (producer), Medb Riordan (producer) (Earth Mama)

Animated Film: The Boy And The Heron

Documentary: 20 Days In Mariupol

Film Not In The English Language: The Zone Of Interest

Cinematography: Oppenheimer

Costume Design: Poor Things

Editing: Oppenheimer

Make Up And Hair: Poor Things

Original Music: Oppenheimer

Production Design: Poor Things

Sound: The Zone Of Interest

Special Visual Effects: Poor Things

Casting: The Holdovers

Short Animation: Crab Day

Short Film: Jellyfish And Lobster

Rising Star: Mia McKenna-Bruce

Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema: June Givanni

BAFTA Fellowship: Samantha Morton

Oppenheimer took home the most awards, winning seven; Poor Things wins five, and The Zone Of Interest wins three. 

--------------

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG) AWARDS

The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards were held on Saturday 24th February in a ceremony which streamed live on Netflix and hosted by Idris Elba.

Here are the film winners:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Oppenheimer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Three awards for Oppenheimer, including the SAG-equivalent of Best Picture, makes them the big winner of the night. Lily Gladstone's win here will be very welcome in keeping her Oscar hopes alive. 

--------------

PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS (PGA)

The 35th Producers Guild Awards (PGA) were handed out on Sunday 25th February. The film winners are:

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: Oppenheimer

Documentary Film: American Symphony

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

--------------

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

Also on Sunday 25th February, the 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards- recognising films made wholly or partly outside the traditional studio system- took place.

Here's a full list of film winners. 

Best Feature: Past Lives

Best Lead Performance: Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Best Supporting Performance: Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best Breakthrough Performance: Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers)

Best Director: Celine Song (Past Lives)

Best Screenplay: Cord Jefferson (American Fiction)

Best First Screenplay: Samy Burch (screenplay); Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik (story) (May December)

Best Cinematography: The Holdovers

Best Editing: How To Blow Up A Pipeline

Best First Feature: A Thousand And One

Best International Film: Anatomy Of A Fall

Best Documentary: Four Daughters

John Cassavetes Award: Fremont

Robert Altman Award: Showing Up

The John Cassavetes Award is given to the creative team of a film budgeted at less than $1 million, whilst the Robert Altman Award is presented to the ensemble cast of the movie, its director, and its casting director(s). 

The Holdovers was the biggest winner of the night, with three awards; Past Lives and American Fiction took home two apiece. 

Congratulations to all winners!

So, after all of this is taken into consideration, where does it look like the awards season is headed, as we get into the home strait with only the Razzies and the Oscars left to announce? From my position, this is what I'm thinking: 

• Oppenheimer looks to be in a strong position to win Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. 

• Da'Vine Joy Randolph is almost certainly going to win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

• It feels like a two-horse race between Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone for Best Actress, but I'd say Gladstone's SAG win puts her slightly ahead.

• Barbie's best chance of any kind of Oscar win is almost certainly Best Original Song, although it may also get several of the technical awards (if they don't go to Poor Things or Oppenheimer)

• There's a couple of films that were low on my radar that I really need to get to watch!

The next- and indeed final- weekend of the 2024 awards season comes on the weekend of 9th/10th March with the Razzies and the Oscars announced that weekend. 

 

Awards Season 2024: Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) Awards, Directors Guild Awards (DGA), and Producers Guild Awards (PGA) Nominations

 

Roll up, roll up, ladies and gents, for not one, not two, but three (yes, three) major bits of awards news as- over the past few days- three of the major guilds have announced their awards nominations for this year. 

So, let's dispense with the faffing around, and let's dive straight in.

DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS (DGA)

Wednesday (10th January 2024) saw the announcement of the nominees for the 76th Directors' Guild Awards. The film nominees are as follows:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film

Greta Gerwig (Barbie)

Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)

Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Alexander Payne (The Holdovers)

Martin Scorsese (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film

Cord Jefferson (American Fiction)

Manuela Martelli (Chile '76)

Noora Niasari (Shayda)

A.V. Rockwell (A Thousand And One)

Celine Song (Past Lives)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary 

(previously announced)

Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp (Bobi Wine: The People's President)

Mstyslav Chernov (20 Days In Mariupol)

Madeleine Gavin (Beyond Utopia)

Davis Guggenheim (Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie)

D. Smith (Kokomo City)

Greta Gerwig becomes the third woman director to receive two DGA nominations (after Kathryn Bigelow and Jane Campion). No real shocks or surprises in the "theatrical feature film" category; I fully expect to see this replicated in the Oscars Best Director category. 

The "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film" has been named for former DGA president and director Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist, The World Is Not Enough) who passed away in 2021.

The 76th Annual DGA Awards will take place on Saturday 10th February 2024

======

SCREEN ACTORS' GUILD (SAG) AWARDS

This afternoon (Friday 12th January), the nominations for the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were announced. Again, they were announced via Instagram Live, with Issa Rae (Insecure, Barbie, American Fiction) and Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick, Eternals, Silicon Valley) hosting. 

Below is the list of film nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

American Fiction

Barbie

The Color Purple

Killers Of The Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper (Maestro)

Colman Domingo (Rustin)

Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)

Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Annette Bening (Nyad)

Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Carey Mulligan (Maestro)

Margot Robbie (Barbie)

Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)

Willem Dafoe (Poor Things)

Robert De Niro (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Ryan Gosling (Barbie)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)

Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)

Penélope Cruz (Ferrari)

Jodie Foster (Nyad)

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Barbie

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Volume 3

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

John Wick: Chapter 4

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Barbie and Oppenheimer lead the field with four nods apiece, while Killers Of The Flower Moon and American Fiction have three. 

A couple of interesting admissions and omissions: this is the first time Penélope Cruz has received any major awards love for Ferrari (and this is one of the first major awards to even recognise Michael Mann's biopic); Leonardo DiCaprio's omission in the Best Actor category has raised a few eyebrows, as has the complete shut-out of Todd Haynes' May December (three of its main cast- Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton- have appeared in many other awards shortlists). I was surprised not to see either Sandra Hüller (for Anatomy Of A Fall) or Greta Lee (for Past Lives) recognised for Best Actress. 

The SAG Awards will be handed out on Saturday 24th February 2024, with the ceremony streaming on Netflix. 

=======

PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS (PGA)

Today (Friday 12th January 2024) also saw the nominations for the 35th Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards. The nominated films are:

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

American Fiction

Anatomy Of A Fall

Barbie

The Holdovers

Killers Of The Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

The Zone Of Interest

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

The Boy And The Heron

Elemental

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures 

(previously announced)

20 Days In Mariupol

American Symphony

Beyond Utopia

The Disappearance Of Shere Hite

The Mother Of All Lies

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis)

There's been some comment made that the PGA has included two international features in the "Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures" categories, with French courtroom drama Anatomy Of A Fall and Holocaust drama The Zone Of Interest both included. I think it just goes to show the depth and breadth of international film, and it's always good to see when films break out of their own narrowly-defined categories to reach wider acclaim. I do feel that the Academy is going to follow suit, although I think it may be the former rather than the latter. But who knows?

The PGA Awards are due to be handed out on Sunday 25th February 2024.

Congratulations to all nominees!

Coming up next for awards season: the Critics' Choice Awards will be given out on Sunday (14th January)

Awards Season 2023: Producers Guild Awards (PGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Winners

Another two-for-one offer on awards news today, as this most recent weekend has seen two of the major guilds give out their awards, both of which are seen as bellwethers for the Oscars (which is in a couple of weeks).

So, let's find out who needs to make some room on the shelf for some shiny new silverware (well, glass and bronzewear to be more precise)

PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS (PGA)

The Producers Guild Awards (PGA) were handed out on Saturday (25th February). The film winners are:

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Documentary Film: Navalny

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

The final round of Oscar voting is still to come (it's happening between 2nd-7th March), but it's looking likely that we've found this year's Best Picture Oscar winner. The other guild awards that happened this weekend also point towards this.  

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG) AWARDS

The 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards were held last night (Sunday 26th February) in a ceremony which was not televised, but was streamed live via Netflix's YouTube channel (ahead of the streaming service broadcasting it from next year).

Here are the film winners:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

Top Gun: Maverick

Everything Everywhere All At Once has become the most-awarded film in SAG history, with four awards. It's always been a bit of a two-horse race between Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett for Best Actress, and it's still wide open (especially as both of them are nominated for Best Lead Performance at the Independent Spirits).

I think Ke Huy Quan has pretty much tied on Best Supporting Actor, and it's now between Brendan Fraser and Austin Butler for Best Actor. 

The icon that is Sally Field received the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award, after Helen Mirren last year. 

Congratulations to all winners!

Next weekend (Saturday 4th March) sees the Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, with everything coming to a head the following weekend (Sunday 12th March) with the 95th Academy Awards.

Awards Season 2021: Producers' Guild Awards (PGA) Winners and Writers' Guild Awards (WGA) Winners

It's Oscars week! 

Yep, the annual parade of self-congratulatory flim-flam ends on Sunday (who said "hooray!"?) with the 94th Academy Awards. There are a few more awards bodies to still give out their trophies, and two of the major guilds did just that this past weekend. 

PRODUCERS' GUILD AWARDS

The Producers Guild Awards (PGA) were handed out on Saturday (19th March). The film winners are:

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: CODA

Documentary Film: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Encanto

This makes things interesting. CODA's win has taken a lot of people by surprise, and it's potentially a sign that Academy voters are perhaps not as enamoured with The Power Of The Dog as they once were. Crucially, final voting for the Oscars is still open (it closes on March 22nd) so this might make a difference. 

As previous years have shown, a PGA win doesn't automatically equate to a Best Picture Oscar win, but there's a great deal of overlap between the two. The Documentary and Animated Feature winners were not surprises.

WRITERS' GUILD AWARDS

The Writers' Guild Awards (WGA) were given out yesterday (Sunday 20th March). The film winners were:

Original Screenplay: Don't Look Up

Adapted Screenplay: CODA

Documentary Screenplay: Exposing Muybridge

Both Don't Look Up and CODA are nominated in their respective categories for the Oscars, so they may well repeat this success this weekend. However, CODA may face competition from The Lost Daughter and The Power Of The Dog (both of which weren't eligible for WGA consideration but were for the Oscars). Likewise, Don't Look Up could potentially lose out to Belfast.  

And, for anyone who's interested, Exposing Muybridge (written and directed by Marc Shaffer) is about trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge (crazy spelling, crazy guy), who was the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see: Leland Stanford's galloping horses. 

Congratulations to all winners!

So it's the Razzies that are next to be announced; that'll be on Saturday 26th March (back to their traditional "Oscar Eve" date).