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).
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