2017 Awards Season: PGA Nominations

January 5, 2018

The Producers Guild of America finally finished announcing their nominations. (They spread out their announcements for reasons I’ve never quite understood.) It is a strange year for the PGAs, as there was a tie resulting in 11 films being nominated for the top prize.

The categories and nominees are...

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

• The Big Sick
• Call Me by Your Name
• Dunkirk
• Get Out
• I, Tonya
• Lady Bird
• Molly’s Game
• The Post
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Wonder Woman

• The Boss Baby
• Coco
• Despicable Me 3
• Ferdinand
• The Lego Batman Movie

• Chasing Coral
• City of Ghosts
• Cries from Syria
• Earth: One Amazing Day
• Jane
• Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
• The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

• With 11 nominations for the top prize, it’s not surprising that there is no big snub to talk about. I have my favorite, The Big Sick, but none of these really look out of place.
• For the second year in a row, there is a comic book movie included in the list of nominations. It was Deadpool last year and Wonder Woman this year. Frankly, I thought Logan would have had a better shot at the nomination, but I’m still pleasantly surprised.
• The animation list is a mess. There’s no The Breadwinner or Loving Vincent. If Coco doesn’t win, then they need to retire this category, because the people voting on it don’t know what they are doing.
• Jane has to be seen as the overwhelming Oscar favorite for best documentary at this point.

- C.S.Strowbridge

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