The Producers Guild has announced the nominees for its annual documentary award, throwing another curveball into an already unexpected race. None of the PGA’s nominees are in the top ten of expected Oscar doc nominees according to the latest Feinberg Forecast.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The PGA’s six nominees for outstanding producer of documentary motion pictures are:
Gaucho Gaucho
Mediha
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Porcelain War
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
We Will Dance Again
The PGA does have a history of deviating from the Oscars; last year only one of its nominees, 20 Days in Mariupol, also made the Academy grouping. Still, the highest-ranked of the PGA docs on the projected Oscar list is Super/Man, at No. 12.
Notably the No. 2 movie on the Forecast, the left-minded Occupied Territories documentary No Other Land, did not make the PGA cut while We Will Dance Again, Yariv Mozer’s look at Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel’s Nova festival that is being distributed by Paramount+, did. No Other Land, which centers on the displacement of a West Bank town by the Israeli Defense Forces and does not have distribution, was recently named best documentary by the New York Film Critics Circle. The Oscars will announce its 15-film doc shortlist on Dec. 17.
Also missing on the PGA nominations list was Will & Harper, Will Ferrell and Harper Steele’s road movie that last month tied with Super/Man for best doc at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, as well as Canadian Indian school system inquiry Sugarcane, a pundit favorite that recently won best doc at the National Board of Review.
Winners will be announced at the PGA ceremony on Feb. 8 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
2024-12-10 18:47:15
