January 23rd saw the Producers Guild of America (PGA) announce this year\u2019s winning motion picture, television, and new media productions at the 27th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The Jerry Seinfeld-created web series, \u201cComedians In Cars Getting Coffee\u201d won the Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Digital Series for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
The television program \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d (Season 5) and its producers David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bernadette Caulfield, Frank Doelger, Carolyn Strauss, Bryan Cogman, Lisa McAtackney, Chris Newman, and Greg Spence won the Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama.<\/p>\n
Closing the evening, the film THE BIG SHORT and its producers Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.\u00a0 This category is one of the most eagerly-anticipated of season, as it is widely considered a strong prognosticator for the Best Picture Oscar\u00ae.<\/p>\n
In addition to its competitive awards, the PGA presented special honors to Jim Gianopulos with the Milestone Award; producer David Heyman with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures; Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) with the Visionary Vanguard Award, accepted by Lynwen Brennan and John Knoll; and producer Shonda Rhimes with the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. The Stanley Kramer Award was presented to the feature documentary, THE HUNTING GROUND, accepted by producer Amy Ziering, which included a special performance by Lady Gaga who sang \u201cTil It Happens To You\u201d her Oscar\u00ae-nominated song written for the film by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Big Short The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:<\/strong><\/p>\n Inside Out The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:<\/strong><\/p>\n Amy The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:<\/strong><\/p>\n Fargo (Season 2) The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:<\/strong><\/p>\n Game of Thrones (Season 5) The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:<\/strong><\/p>\n Transparent (Season 1) Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Season 1) Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Voice (Seasons 7 and 8) Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:<\/strong><\/p>\n Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Season 2) Outstanding Sports Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel<\/p>\n Outstanding Children\u2019s Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sesame Street<\/p>\n Outstanding Digital Series:<\/strong><\/p>\n Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 23rd saw the Producers Guild of America (PGA) announce this year\u2019s winning motion picture, television, and new media productions at the 27th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The Jerry Seinfeld-created web series, \u201cComedians In Cars Getting Coffee\u201d won the Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Digital… Continue reading Producers Guild Award Winners 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nProducers: Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner<\/p>\n
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