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). 

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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: Actor Awards Nominations

In my attempt to catch up on some awards season nonsense before the Oscar nominations next week, here are this year's nominations for the Actor Awards. 

But what are the Actor Awards, you may ask? Is this a new award added to what could be considered an already bloated season? Nope - the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) have decided to change the name of their awards. The statuette that winners receive is called "The Actor" so they decided that, from this year, they are The Actor Awards. Fair enough.  

"The Actor" award - you can see where they got the name from

Anyway, here are this year's nominations, which were announced on Wednesday 7th January 2026:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)

Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)

Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

Jesse Plemons (Bugonia)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You)

Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)

Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

Emma Stone (Bugonia)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Miles Caton (Sinners)

Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another)

Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Odessa A'zion (Marty Supreme)

Ariana Grande-Butera (Wicked: For Good)

Amy Madigan (Weapons)

Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners)

Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

F1

Frankenstein

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

One Battle After Another

Sinners

One Battle After Another cements itself as a 2026 Awards Season juggernaut by become the most-nominated film in the history of the Actor Awards with seven nods covering all six categories (the first film to do this since the Stunt Ensemble award was introduced in 2007). Sinners has a perfectly respectable five nominations, with Frankenstein, Hamnet and Marty Supreme joint third with three apiece.

Couple of things to discuss here. The major elephant in the room is the complete and utter shutout of any foreign-language/international films. The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value, two of the most high profile international movies of the year, nowhere to be seen despite strong showing for both in other award nominations. I don't necessarily think the Oscars will repeat this; the last couple of years have seen films like Emilia Pérez, Anatomy Of A Fall, Past Lives, Drive My Car, Parallel Mothers and Minari all major contenders, so I think we'll see them mentioned there. 

However, with the absence of these films, in each of the solo acting categories, there was one pleasant "oh really?" nominations. It was good to see Jesse Plemons, Kate Hudson, Miles Caton, and Odessa A'zion included in the awards conversation. Whilst both Plemons and Hudson received Golden Globe (Musical/Comedy) nods for their lead performances in Bugonia and Song Sung Blue respectively, this is the first major awards recognition for both Caton (in his film debut) and A'Zion. 

 

The 32nd Actor Awards will be handed out on Sunday 1st March 2026, with the ceremony broadcasting on Netflix for the third year running. 

Next with my catch-up will be the Directors Guild Awards (DGA) and Producers Guild Awards (PGA) nominations. This will probably be at some point over the weekend.