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PGA Announces Nods
Large studio fare takes control of the six film nominations from the Producers
Guild.
Tuesday, January 6, 2004
By Claire Runitz
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As the Producers Guild of America announced their nominees for the best fare
of 2003, the organization opted for more large studio and epic films rather
than comedies and more independent work. This year's list of nominees, announced
yesterday afternoon, also includes six films this year - the second year in
a row the PGA included six rather than five films.
The finalists for this year's Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the year award include:
Miramax's Cold Mountain, Warner Bros.' The Last Samurai, New Line's
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 20th Century Fox's Master
and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Warner's Mystic River and Universal's Seabiscuit.
All of this year's finalists have fared well at the box office, led by Return
of the King which has made $290 million domestically to date. Of the other
nominees, Seabiscuit has raced to $120 million, Samurai has brought
on $90.1 million, Master and Commander has commanded $83.1 million and
Cold Mountain has picked up $43.9 million after two weeks.
As the votes rolled in from the 2,000 members of the PGA, two films tied for
the fifth position allowing the org to nominate six films once again this year.
The PGA awards will be closely followed as many voters for the PGA are also
voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which votes
on Oscar winners.
In the past 14 year, 10 of the PGA's Zanuck winners have gone on to win the
best picture Oscar, including last year's double winner Chicago. Others
that have gone two for two include Driving Miss Daisy, Dances With
Wolves, The Silence of the Lambs, Schindler's List, Forrest
Gump, The English Patient, Titanic, American Beauty
and Gladiator.
In 2002, Moulin Rouge took the Zanuck Award, but A Beautiful Mind
walked away with the best picture honors from the Academy. Saving Private
Ryan, Apollo 13 and The Crying Game also won the Zanuck award,
while the Oscar went to Shakespeare in Love, Braveheart and Unforgiven
in their respective years.
On the television side, HBO and CBS led the way in the nominations race as
the two nets took 11 nods out of 21. HBO won recognition for Six Feet Under
as drama series and Sex and the City in the comedy category. And Starring
Pancho Villa as Himself, My House in Umbria and Normal all
received longfrom nominations, and Project Greenlight was mentioned in
the reality/game/informational series category. Sex and the City won
the Danny Thomas award for comedy in both 2001 and 2002.
| The Amazing Race 4 and Survivor: Pearl Islands helped CBS as
both series earned reality nods, while the net's staple Everybody Loves Raymond
took a comedy series nomination. The network's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
was noted in the drama category, and Hitler: The Rise of Evil took a
longform nod.
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Fox's 24, last year's winner of the Norman Felton drama award, was once
again nominated, as was the network's Malcolm in the Middle for comedy
and American Idol for reality. NBC also garnered three mentions for Scrubs
and Will & Grace in comedy and for The West Wing in drama.
Nets receiving one nod include: ABC for the drama series with Alias,
A&E for Biography as a reality series, Bravo for the reality series
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and FX for the longform The Pentagon
Papers.
Marg Helgenberger and Sean Astin emceed the announcement ceremony held yesterday
at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. The winners of this year's PGA awards
will be announced at a ceremony to be held on January 17th at the Century Plaza.
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