Producers Guild Awards Name 'The Artist' Motion Picture of Year; 'Boardwalk Empire' Scores TV Drama: Complete Winners List
Complete rundown of the winners and nominees in all categories.
The 23rd annual Producers Guild Awards were presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Jan. 21.
The producers of ABC's Modern Family took home the first award of the night for outstanding episodic comedy television show
The PGA nominated 10 movies for its top film prize, the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. Of the 10, two comedies (Bridesmaids and Midnight in Paris) and the family-friendly Hugo from Martin Scorsese went up against dramas The Artist, The Descendants and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
In the television category, HBO led the pack with Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Cinema Verite, Mildred Pierce and Too Big to Fail all receiving noms.
MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION AND WEB WINNERS
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
*WINNER The Adventures of Tintin
(Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg)
Cars 2 (Denise Ream)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (Melissa Cobb)
Puss In Boots (Joe M. Aguilar, Latifa Ouaou)
Rango (John B. Carls, Gore Verbinski)
Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:
*WINNER The Amazing Race, CBS (Jerry Bruckheimer, Elise Doganieri, Jonathan Littman, Bertram van Munster, Mark Vertullo)
American Idol, FOX (Charles Boyd, Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Simon Fuller, Patrick Lynn, Nigel Lythgoe, Megan Michaels, Ken Warwick)
Dancing with the Stars, ABC (Ashley Edens Shaffer, Conrad Green, Joe Sungkur, Rob Wade)
Project Runway, Lifetime (Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Colleen Sands)
Top Chef, Bravo (Daniel Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Dan Murphy, Nan Strait)
Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:
*WINNER The Colbert Report, Comedy Central (Meredith Bennett, Stephen T. Colbert, Richard Dahm, Tanya Michnevich Bracco, Tom Purcell, Jon Stewart, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Emily Lazar)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Mary Connelly, Ellen DeGeneres, Melissa Geiger Schrift, Ed Glavin, Andy Lassner, Kevin A. Leman II, Jonathan Norman, Derek Westervelt)
Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO (Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz, Dean Johnsen, Bill Maher, Billy Martin)
Saturday Night Live, NBC (Ken Aymong, Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney)
The 64th Annual Tony Awards, CBS (Ricky Kirshner, Glenn Weiss)
The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:
30 Rock, NBC (Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Marci Klein, Jerry Kupfer, Lorne Michaels, David Miner, Jeff Richmond, John Riggi, Don Scardino)
The Big Bang Theory, CBS (Chuck Lorre, Steve Molaro, Faye Oshima, Bill Prady)
Glee, FOX (Ian Brennan, Dante Di Loreto, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, Kenneth Silverstein)
*WINNER Modern Family, ABC (Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Morton, Jeffrey Richman, Dan O’Shannon, Brad Walsh, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker)
Parks and Recreation, NBC (Greg Daniels, Dan Goor, Howard Klein, Amy Poehler, Morgan Sackett, Michael Schur)
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:
30 for 30, ESPN (John Dahl, Connor Schell, Bill Simmons)
*WINNER American Masters, PBS (Susan Lacy, Julie Sacks)
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Travel Channel (Christopher Collins, Julie Lei, Lydia Tenaglia, Tom Vitale)
Deadliest Catch, Discovery Channel (Thom Beers, Jeff Conroy, John Gray, Sheila McCormack, Ethan Prochnik, Bill Pruitt, Matt Renner)
Undercover Boss, CBS (Chris Carlson, Susan Hoenig, Eli Holzman, Sandi Johnson, Stephen Lambert, Allison Schermerhorn)
News Programs:
Anderson Cooper 360, CNN
BBC World News America, BBC
NBC News with Brian Williams, NBC
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC
*WINNER 60 Minutes, CBS
Sports Programs:
Monday Night Football, ESPN
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, HBO
Sports Center, ESPN
*WINNER 30 for 30, ESPN
2010 FIFA World Cup, ABC / ESPN / ESPN2
U.S. Open Tennis Championship, CBS / ESPN2 / Tennis Channel
Children’s Programs:
Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon
iCarly, Nickelodeon
Phineas and Ferb, Disney Channel
*WINNER Sesame Street, PBS
SpongeBob Squarepants, Nickelodeon
The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:
Cinema Verite, HBO (Zanne Devine, Karyn McCarthy)
*WINNER Downton Abbey, Masterpiece/PBS (Julian Fellowes, Nigel Marchant, Gareth Neame)
The Kennedys, ReelzChannel (Jon Cassar, Jonathan Koch, Stephen Kronish, Steve Michaels, Michael Prupas, Jamie Paul Rock, Joel Surnow)
Mildred Pierce, HBO (Todd Haynes, Pamela Koffler, Ilene S. Landress, Christine Vachon)
Too Big To Fail, HBO (Carol Fenelon, Jeffrey Levine, Paula Weinstein)
Web Series:
Ask a Ninja, blip.tv
The Guild, WatchTheGuild.com
Parks and Recreation Presents: ‘April & Andy’s Road Trip’, NBC.com
*WINNER 30 Rock Presents Jack Donaghy, Executive Superhero, NBC.com
Web Therapy, LStudio.com
The Producers Guild Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:
*WINNER Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (Michael Rapaport, Edward Parks, Frank Mele, Debra Koffler)
Bill Cunningham New York (Philip Gefter)
Project Nim (Simon Chinn)
Senna (James Gay-Rees)
The Union (Cameron Crowe, Michelle Panek)
The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:
*WINNER Boardwalk Empire, HBO (Eugene Kelly, Howard Korder, Stephen Levinson, Martin Scorsese, Rudd Simmons, Tim Van Patten, Terence Winter)
Dexter, Showtime (Sara Colleton, John Goldwyn, Chip Johannessen, Robert Lloyd Lewis)
Game of Thrones, HBO (David Benioff, Frank Doelger, Mark Huffam, Carolyn Strauss, D.B. Weiss)
The Good Wife, CBS (Brooke Kennedy, Michelle King, Robert King, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, David W. Zucker)
Mad Men, AMC (Jonathan Abrahams, Scott Hornbacher, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Blake McCormick, Dwayne Shattuck, Dahvi Waller, Matthew Weiner)
Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:
*WINNER The Artist (Thomas Langmann)
Bridesmaids (Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend)
The Descendants (Jim Burke, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Ceán Chaffin, Scott Rudin)
The Help (Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Brunson Green)
Hugo (Graham King, Martin Scorsese)
The Ides of March (George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver)
Midnight In Paris (Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum)
Moneyball (Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Brad Pitt)
War Horse (Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg)
Special honors were also given to Leslie Moonves (Milestone Award), Steven Spielberg (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), Don Mischer (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), Stan Lee (Vanguard Award), and In the Land of Blood and Honey (The Stanley Kramer Award).