On Friday, January 12th, The Producers Guild of America revealed its nominees for the 35th Producers Guild of America Awards ceremony. The winners will be announced on Sunday, February 25th. After a week of the Screen Actors Guild and the Directors Guild organizations announcing their nominees, the PGAs are the last major guild in this awards season, as voting for the 96th Academy Awards is underway. 

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) secured its last guild nomination, as it’s now the one film that has hit every guild precursor nomination, on top of winning Best Drama at the Golden Globes ceremony. For the first time in the guild’s history, two international films were nominated: Neon’s Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and A24’s The Zone of Interest (2023). The nominations bolster their awards dominance that began at their worldwide premiers at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the top two prizes, the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix, respectively. 

This also comes in the aftermath of the Academy expanding their voters, which saw the inclusion of other notable international films that missed the PGAs, such as All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Triangle of Sadness (2022), and Drive My Car (2021) in recent years. 

Since both the guild and the Academy expanded their list of ten in 2009, every year, they find films that show up with the guild but fail to cross over into the Academy Best Picture lineup. It usually varies between eight and nine films that make it in the Academy lineup, but this could be the first time that all ten films cross over, as they are the heavily predicted ten films by many awards pundits. 

The ten nominees for the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, also known as the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, are as follows: 

The guild’s Animation Theatrical Motion Picture nominees are The Boy and the Heron (2023), Elemental (2023), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023).

Source: Producer’s Guild of America

Feature Image from ‘American Fiction’ (2023); credit to MGM Amazon Studios via NPR