The Producers Guild of America gave its top motion picture honors to The King's Speech at its 22nd annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony Saturday night, a choice that seriously shakes up this awards seasons developing narrative.While most handicappers bet on both the Weinstein Co.'s Speech and Sony's The Social Network as the two front-runners at the beginning of the season, Social took an early lead last weekend when it best film prizes at both the Broadcast Film Critics Assn.'s Critics Choice Awards and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.'s Golden Globe Awards.
With Speech's PGA victory, the two front-runners now look like as if they are back to running neck-to-neck as they head toward next month's Oscars, especially since the PGA has a good, though not infallible, track record for foreshadowing Oscar winners. Over the past ten years, the PGA winner went on to win the best picture Oscar 60% of the time.
Officially dubbed the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, the PGA prize went to Speech producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin.
At its annual dinner, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the PGA gave its award for animated feature to Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3 and producer Darla K. Anderson.
Producer Lesley Chilcott took home the award for feature documentary for Paramount Vantage's Waiting for 'Superman,' a critical look at America's public school system.
On the TV side, ABC's Modern Family earned its first PGA award, the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television - Comedy. The winning producers were Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Morton, Dan O'Shannon, Jason Winer, Bill Wrubel and Danny Zuker.
For the third year in a row, AMC's Mad Men took the drama series prize, the Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television - Drama. The award went to Lisa Albert, Scott Hornbacher, Andrew Jacquemetton, Marie Jacquemetton, Blake McCormick, Dwayne Shattuck and Matthew Weiner.
HBO's Emmy-winning The Pacific racked up further honors as it received the David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television. Its producing team consisted of Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg as well as Gary Goetzman, Eugene Kelly, Todd London, Cherylanne Martin, Bruce C. McKenna, Steven Shareshian, Tony To, Tim Van Patten and Graham Yost.
In the category of non-fiction television, the PGA singled out Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch and its producers Thom Beers, Jeff Conroy, Sheila McCormack, Ethan Prochnik and Matt Renner.
And in the category of live entertainment and competition television, Comedy Channel's The Colbert Report won for the fourth year in a row, with the prize going to Meredith Bennett, Stephen T. Colbert, Richard Dahm, Tom Purcell, Allison Silverman and Jon Stewart.
The PGA also used the occasion to hand out a number of honorary awards.
James Cameron received the Milstone Award. Hanks and Goetzman were recognized with the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. And Scott Rudin -- who happened to be nominated for both Social and True Grit -- was lauded with the David O. Selznick Award in Motion Pictures.
Additionaly, the Visionary Award was presented to Laura Ziskin. The Stanley Kramer Award was given to Sean Penn. And 3D provider RealD earned the Vanguard Award.
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