Oscar 2013: Producers Guild Nominations for Best Picture

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has selected:

“12 Years a Slave,” “American Hustle,” “Blue Jasmine,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Gravity,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Saving Mr. Banks” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” as nominees for its Darryl F. Zanuck award.

The winner will be announced Jan. 19 at PGA’s 25th anniversary awards show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel following voting by the PGA’s 6,000 members. The guild decided in 2011 to stick to 10 nominees for its top feature award rather than follow the revised voting procedures of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

“Fruitvale Station and “Inside Llewyn Davis” were probably the most notable exclusions among the leading contenders.

Others passed over included “All Is Lost,” “August: Osage County,” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Lone Survivor,” “Philomena” and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”

Of the 10 nominees, Warner Bros.’ “Gravity” is by far the biggest box office grosser, with more than $650 million worldwide.

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The PGA’s Zanuck award has become a strong indicator of Oscar sentiment in recent years, matching the Oscar for best picture in 17 of its 24 years — including the last six, with “Argo,” “The Artist,” “The King’s Speech,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Slumdog Millionaire” and “No Country for Old Men.”

The PGA winner last diverged from the Oscar best picture for the 2006 award when “Little Miss Sunshine” won while the Academy opted for “The Departed.”

The match between PGA nominations and Oscar Best Picture nominees has been about 80%. Eight of the 10 PGA nominees received Oscar nod last year; “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Skyfall” were nommed by the PGA but neither received an Oscar nod while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences included one non-PGA selection in “Amour” among its nine nominations.

The producers branch of AMPAS has about 8%, or about 500, of the voting membership.

The Zanuck award noms listed a total of 29 producers including notables such as Megan Ellison and Charles Roven for “American Hustle,” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum for “Blue Jasmine,” Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Scott Rudin for “Captain Phillips,” Alfonso Cuaron and David Heyman for “Gravity,” Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa for “Nebraska” and Brad Pitt for “12 Years a Slave.”

Eight PGA films have been listed in the AFI’s Top Ten: “12 Years a Slave,” “American Hustle,””Captain Phillips,” “Gravity,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Saving Mr. Banks” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” SAG ensemble nominations matched the PGA nods for only “12 Years a Slave” and “American Hustle” with the other SAG selections going to “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Dallas Buyers Club” and “August: Osage County.”

Disney scored a pair of nods for the PGA’s animation awards with “Frozen” and “Monsters University” with the other nominations going to DreamWorks’ “The Croods,” Universal’s “Despicable Me 2″ and Fox’s “Epic.”

The next major awards announcement comes Friday with the Writers Guild of America disclosing its screenplay nominees. The Directors Guild of America follows on Jan. 7 with its five feature film nominations.

The complete list of honorees is below.

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: Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner

Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures) Producers: Riza Aziz, Emma Koskoff, Joey McFarland

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:

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.

In late 2013, the Producers Guild of America announced the Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture, Television Series and Non-Fiction Television Nominations; the following list includes complete producer credits.

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:

A PLACE AT THE TABLE (Magnolia Pictures) Producers: Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush

FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY (First Run Features) Producers: Brad Bernstein, Rick Cikowski

LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM (HBO Documentary Films) Producers: Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine, Miriam Weintraub

WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS (Focus Features) Producers: Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger

WHICH WAY IS THE FRONT LINE FROM HERE? THE LIFE AND TIME OF TIM HETHERINGTON (HBO Documentary Films) Producers: James Brabazon, Nick Quested

Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:

Breaking Bad (AMC) Producers: Melissa Bernstein, Sam Catlin, Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Mark Johnson, Stewart Lyons, Michelle MacLaren, George Mastras, Diane Mercer, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett

Downton Abbey (ITV – United Kingdom; PBS – United States) Producers: Julian Fellowes, Nigel Marchant, Gareth Neame, Liz Trubridge

Game of Thrones (HBO) Producers: David Benioff, Bernadette Caulfield, Frank Doelger, D.B. Weiss, Christopher Newman, Greg Spence, Carolyn Strauss

Homeland (Showtime) Producers: Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Michael Cuesta, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Michael Klick, Meredith Stiehm

House of Cards (Netflix) Producers: Joshua Donen, David Fincher, Karyn McCarthy, John Melfi, Eric Roth, Kevin Spacey, Beau Willimon

Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:

30 Rock (NBC) Producers: Jack Burditt, Robert Carlock, Luke Del Tredici , Tina Fey, Matt Hubbard , Marci Klein, Jerry Kupfer , Colleen McGuinness, Lorne Michaels, David Miner, Dylan Morgan , Jeff Richmond , Josh Siegal, Tracey Wigfield

Arrested Development (Netflix) Producers: John Foy, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Troy Miller, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely

Big Bang Theory, The (CBS) Producers: Bill Prady, Chucke Lorre, Steve Molaro, Faye Oshima Belyeu

Modern Family (ABC) Producers: Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Jeffrey Morton, Dan O’Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Chris Smirnoff, Brad Walsh, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker

VEEP (HBO) Producers: Simon Blackwell, Christopher Godsick, Armando Iannucci, Stephanie Laing, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Frank Rich, Tony Roche

Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:

30 for 30 (ESPN) Producers: Bill Simmons, John Dahl, Erin Leyden, Connor Schell

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN) Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig

Duck Dynasty (A&E Networks) Producers: Deirdre Gurney, Scott Gurney, Mike Odair, Hugh Peterson, Adam Saltzberg, Charlie Van Vleet

Inside The Actors Studio (Bravo) Producers: James Lipton, Shawn Tesser, Jeff Wurtz

Shark Tank (ABC) Producers: Mark Burnett, Becky Blitz, Bill Gaudsmith, Yun Lingner, Clay Newbill, Jim Roush, Laura Skowlund, Max Swedlow

Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:

Colbert Report, The (Comedy Central) Producers: Meredith Bennett, Stephen T. Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Matt Lappin, Emily Lazar, Tanya Michnevich Bracco, Tom Purcell, Jon Stewart

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) Producers: David Craig, Ken Crosby, Doug DeLuca, Gary Greenberg, Erin Irwin, Jimmy Kimmel, Jill Leiderman, Molly McNearney, Tony Romero, Jason Shrift, Jennifer Sharron, Josh Weintraub

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC) Producers: Hillary Hunn, Lorne Michaels, Gavin Purcell, Michael Shoemaker

Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) Producers: Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz, Dean Johnsen, Bill Maher, Billy Martin, Matt Wood

Saturday Night Live (NBC) Producers: Ken Aymong, Erin Doyle, Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward, Lorne Michaels, Lindsay Shookus

Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:

Amazing Race, The (CBS) Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Elise Doganieri, Jonathan Littman, Bertram van Munster, Mark Vertullo

Dancing With The Stars (ABC) Producers: Ashley Edens-Shaffer, Conrad Green, Joe Sungkur

Project Runway (Lifetime) Producers: Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Colleen Sands

Top Chef (Bravo) Producers: Tom Colicchio, Daniel Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Erica Ross, Nan Strait, Andrew Wallace

Voice, The (NBC) Producers: Stijn Bakkers, Mark Burnett, John de Mol, Chad Hines, Lee Metzger, Audrey Morrissey, Jim Roush, Kyra Thompson, Nicolle Yaron, Mike Yurchuk, Amanda Zucker

The following programs were not vetted for producer eligibility this year, but winners in these categories will be announced at the official ceremony on January 19:

Award for Outstanding Sports Program:

24/7 (HBO)

Hard Knocks (HBO)

Monday Night Football (ESPN)

Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

SportsCenter (ESPN)

The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program:

Dora the Explorer (Nickelodeon)

iCarly (Nickelodeon)

Phineas and Ferb (Disney Channel)

Sesame Street (Sprout)

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