By Steve Pond
TheWrap
“Gravity,” “American Hustle” and “12 Years a Slave” are among the films nominated for the top feature-film award by the Producers Guild of America.
The other nominees: “Blue Jasmine,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Saving Mr. Banks,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
Although the nominations included most of the films considered prime contenders for the Oscars, the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” were both was surprisingly left off the list.
In the feature-film category, the Producers Guild Award is one of the most reliable predictors of the Oscars.
PGA and Oscar Best Picture winners have coincided 17 times in the 24-year existence of the Producers Guild Awards, including the last six years in a row.
Since the Academy moved from five to 10 Best Picture nominees and the Producers Guild followed suit, 32 of the 40 PGA nominees have gone on to receive Oscar nominations.
In those four years, the only Oscar nominees not to receive PGA nominations were “The Blind Side,” “A Serious Man,” “Winter’s Bone,” “Extremely Loud Incredibly Close,” “The Tree of Life” and “Amour.”
The Producers Guild stuck with a full slate of 10 nominees when the Academy moved in 2011 to a variable system that produces anywhere between five and 10. In the past two years, the PGA has had 10 nominees to the Academy’s nine.
When it comes to final voting, the PGA is the one awards body that uses the same preferential system to count final ballots as the Academy. Its awards for “The Hurt Locker,” “The King’s Speech,” “The Artist” and “Argo” were crucial indicators that those films would triumph with the Academy as well.
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The Producers Guild Awards will take place on Jan. 19 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Lori McCreary and Michael DeLuca will serve as co-chairs for the non-televised show.
The nominees:
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:
“American Hustle” (Columbia Pictures)
Producers: Megan Ellison, Jon Gordon, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle
“Blue Jasmine” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Producers: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum
“Captain Phillips” (Columbia Pictures)
Producers: Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin
“Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features)
Producers: Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter
“Gravity” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
“Her” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Producers: Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay
“Nebraska” (paramount Pictures)
Producers: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
“Saving Mr. Banks” (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Producers: Ian Collie, Alison Owen, Philip Steuer
“12 Years a Slave” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producers:Â Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt Dede Gardner
“Wolf of Wall Street” (paramount Pictures)
Producers: Riza Aziz, Emma Koskoff, Joey McFarland
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
“The Croods” (DreamWorks Animation)
Producers: Kristine Belson, Jane Hartwell
“Despicable Me 2” (Universal Pictures)
Producers: Janet Healy, Chris Meledandri
“Epic” (Twentieth Century Fox)
Producers: Jerry Davis, Lori Forte
“Frozen” (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Producer: Peter Del Vecho
“Monsters University” (Pixar Animation)
Producer: Kori Rae
The television nominees are:
The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:
“American Horror Story: Asylum” (FX)
Producers: Brad Buecker, Dante Di Loreto, Brad Falchuk, Alexis Martin Woodall, Ryan Murphy, Chip Vucelich
“Behind the Candelabra” (HBO)
Producers: Susan Ekins, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Polaire, Jerry Weintraub
“Killing Kennedy” (National Geographic Channel)
Producers: Mary Lisio, Larry Rapaport, Ridley Scott, Teri Weinberg, David W. Zucker
“Phil Spector” (HBO)
Producers: Michael Hausman, Barry Levinson
“Top of the Lake” (Sundance Channel)
Producers: Philippa Campbell, Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman
The Long-Form Television category encompasses both movies of the week and mini-series.
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