Precursor: 23rd Producers Guild of America Nominations (2011)

The big news here is that War Horse in spite of lukewarm reviews managed to stay in the race with Bridesmaids making the expected "populist" slot that seldom carries over to the Oscars. Films whose chances have diminished or disappeared entirely: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (vanished), Harry Potter (vanished) and Drive (diminished). The Ides of March gets a tremendous boost, but will likely be one of the films jettisoned in the jump to the Oscars. The same could be said for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it has more support than I would have expected, so could still carry forward. As for The Tree of Life? Terrence Malick isn't a PGA kind of guy. The Thin Red Line was ignored by the PGA back in 1998, but an appearance at the DGA helped secure a nomination for Malick in both Best Picture and Best Director that year. So, I'm definitely not counting him out.

In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we're giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.

As promised, I have posted the history of this particular guild on my website. You can find it by following this link: Producers Guild of America.

The Nominations

Best Picture

The Artist
Bridesmaids
The Descendants
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
War Horse

Best Animated Feature

The Adventures of Tintin
Cars 2
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango

Best Documentary

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
Bill Cunningham New York
Project Nim
Senna
The Union

Producers Guild of America Data

Year Founded: 1950 Film; 1957 TV; 1962 Unified
First Awards: 1989 (23)

Precursor Accuracy

KEY:

Nominee was nominated for the corresponding Oscar
Nominee was not nominated for a corresponding Oscar
Total (2010-2009-2008-2007-2006)

Picture: 29 (9-8-4-4-4) N / 6 (1-2-1-1-1) I
Animated Feature: 13 (2-4-3-1-3) N / 6 (1-1-0-2-2) I
Documentary: 7 (2-2-2-1-N) N / 11 (4-2-1-4-N) I

Written by: Wesley Lovell - Jan 3, 2012 (12:18 pm) | Filed under: Precursors ( Leave a comment )

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Reza Said
January 4th, 2012 - 06:43

The Academy will not nominate Dragon Tattoo. Don’t know why so many were predicting this film in major categories. It sounded dicey the minute the American remake was announced. I think David Fincher’s involvement led many to believe that it was an Oscar film in the making. And the less said about Bridesmaids the better.

I have a feeling The Separation may well make it to the list of Best Picture.

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Peter J Patrick
January 3rd, 2012 - 18:08

Any list of “bests” that includes garbage like Bridesmaid can’t be taken seriously.

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- Almasy
  January 3rd, 2012 - 18:59
  
  +100000 UP
  
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- Wesley Lovell
  January 4th, 2012 - 06:14
  
  Just because it isn’t your cuppa, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have its value or place in the spectrum of things. I don’t think it’s top 10 material, no, but I did enjoy the film on a non-critical level.
  
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Almasy
January 3rd, 2012 - 14:18

Bridesmaids and The Ides of March are ridiculous nominations.

The ides of march is well written and acted, but it’s so unoriginal, too many movies with the same message have been made.

And Bridesmaids is one of the most overrated movies of the year, it’s got nice scenes and a interesting leading character, but is full of stupid and some disgusting jokes for the academy to take seriously.

I hope the oscar substitute these two with either The Tree of Life, Harry Potter, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close or even Drive.

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