Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
{{Short description|Honor awarded to film producers}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
| awarded_for = Outstanding Production of Theatrical Motion Pictures
| presenter = Producers Guild of America
| country = United States
| year = 1989
| holder = Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker for Anora (2024)
}}
The Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, also known as the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, is one of the annual awards given by the Producers Guild of America from 1989.
Predicting the Oscar's outcome
Since its inception the award has predicted the winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture on all but ten occasions:
- 1992 – The Crying Game; lost to Unforgiven
- 1995 – Apollo 13; lost to Braveheart
- 1998 – Saving Private Ryan; lost to Shakespeare in Love
- 2001 – Moulin Rouge!; lost to A Beautiful Mind
- 2004 – The Aviator; lost to Million Dollar Baby
- 2005 – Brokeback Mountain; lost to Crash
- 2006 – Little Miss Sunshine; lost to The Departed
- 2015 – The Big Short; lost to Spotlight
- 2016 – La La Land; lost to Moonlight
- 2019 – 1917; lost to Parasite
Winners and nominees
=1980s=
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! width="25%" | Film ! width="40%" | Producer(s) ! width="1%" | {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
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| style="text-align:center;" | 1989 (1st) | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Driving Miss Daisy || style="background:#FAEB86;" | Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck | style="text-align:center;"|{{cite news |last1=Snow |first1=Shauna |title=Movies |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-30-ca-35-story.html |access-date=June 28, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 30, 1990}}{{cite web |title=PGA Award Winners 1990–2010 |url=https://www.producersguild.org/page/PGA_Award_19902010 |publisher=Producers Guild of America |access-date=June 23, 2019}} |
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Multiple nominations and wins
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| class="wikitable sortable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" background: #f6e39c;
|+ Producers with at least one win and at least two nominations |
| scope="col" style="width:55px;"|Wins
!scope="col" style="text-align:center;"|Nominations !scope="col" style="text-align:center;"|Name (Year) |
|---|
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | 2
| 9 | Steven Spielberg (1993, 1997, 1998, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022) |
| 4
| Jeremy Kleiner (2013, 2015, 2016, 2018) |
| 4
| Dede Gardner (2013, 2015, 2016, 2018) |
| 3
| Brad Pitt (2011, 2013, 2015) |
| 2
| Branko Lustig (1993, 2000) |
| rowspan=38 style="text-align:center" | 1
| 9 | Scott Rudin (2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017) |
| 5
| Graham King (2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2018) |
| 4
| David Heyman (2001, 2013, 2019) |
| 4
| Peter Jackson (2001, 2002, 2003, 2009) |
| 4
| Christopher Nolan (2008, 2010, 2017, 2023) |
| 4
| Emma Thomas (2008, 2010, 2017, 2023) |
| 4
| Charles Roven (2008, 2013, 2017, 2023) |
| 4
| Marc Platt (2015, 2016, 2020, 2024) |
| 3
| Brian Grazer (1995, 2001, 2008) |
| 3
| James Cameron (1997, 2009, 2022) |
| 3
| Jon Landau (1997, 2009, 2022) |
| 3
| Ethan Coen (1996, 2007, 2010) |
| 3
| Bruce Cohen (1999, 2008, 2012) |
| 3
| Barrie M. Osborne (2001, 2002, 2003) |
| 3
| Fran Walsh (2001, 2002, 2003) |
| 3
| Albert Berger (2003, 2006, 2013) |
| 3
| Grant Heslov (2005, 2011, 2012) |
| 3
| Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2006, 2014, 2015) |
| 3
| Iain Canning (2010, 2016, 2021) |
| 3
| Emile Sherman (2010, 2016, 2021) |
| 2
| Richard D. Zanuck (1989, 2002) |
| 2
| Saul Zaentz (1991, 1996) |
| 2
| Edward Saxon (1991, 2002) |
| 2
| Ian Bryce (1998, 2000) |
| 2
| Mark Gordon (1998, 2017) |
| 2
| Michael Mann (1999, 2004) |
| 2
| Dan Jinks (1999, 2008) |
| 2
| Baz Luhrmann (2001, 2022) |
| 2
| Ron Yerxa (2006, 2013) |
| 2
| Joel Coen (2007, 2010) |
| 2
| Christian Colson (2008, 2010) |
| 2
| Kathryn Bigelow (2009, 2012) |
| 2
| Mark Boal (2009, 2012) |
| 2
| George Clooney (2011, 2012) |
| 2
| Jim Burke (2011, 2018) |
| 2
| Dan Janvey (2012, 2020) |
| 2
| Alfonso Cuarón (2013, 2018) |
| 2
| Peter Spears (2017, 2020) |
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| class="wikitable sortable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" background: #f6e39c;
|+ Producers with no win and at least two nominations |
| scope="col" style="width:55px;"|Wins
!scope="col"|Nominations !scope="col"|Name (Year) |
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| rowspan=66 style="text-align:center" | 0
| 6 | Clint Eastwood (1992, 1995, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2014) |
| 6
| Kathleen Kennedy (1995, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012) |
| 5
| Ceán Chaffin (2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2020) |
| 4
| Jon Kilik (1995, 2006, 2007, 2014) |
| 4
| Steve Golin (1999, 2006, 2015) |
| 4
| Megan Ellison (2012, 2013, 2014) |
| 4
| Kristie Macosko Krieger (2015, 2017, 2021, 2022) |
| 3
| Lawrence Bender (1994, 1997, 2009) |
| 3
| Donna Gigliotti (1998, 2012, 2016) |
| 3
| Vincent Landay (1999, 2002, 2013) |
| 3
| Robert Lorenz (2003, 2009, 2014) |
| 3
| Eric Fellner (2008, 2012, 2014) |
| 3
| Michael De Luca (2010, 2011, 2013) |
| 3
| Jeremy Dawson (2012, 2014, 2022) |
| 3
| Emma Tillinger Koskoff (2013, 2019) |
| 3
| Jason Blum (2014, 2017, 2018) |
| 3
| Bradley Cooper (2014, 2018, 2019) |
| 3
| Amy Pascal (2017, 2019) |
| 3
| Todd Black (2016, 2020, 2021) |
| 2
| Oliver Stone (1991, 1996) |
| 2
| Ismail Merchant (1992, 1993) |
| 2
| Rob Reiner (1992, 1995) |
| 2
| Arnon Milchan (1997, 2015) |
| 2
| Harvey Weinstein (1998, 2002) |
| 2
| Edward Zwick (1998, 2003) |
| 2
| Richard N. Gladstein (1999, 2004) |
| 2
| Ang Lee (2000, 2012) |
| 2
| Stacey Sher (2000, 2012) |
| 2
| Ron Howard (2001, 2008) |
| 2
| Frank Marshall (2003, 2008) |
| 2
| Tom Cruise (2003, 2022) |
| 2
| Jennifer Fox (2007, 2014) |
| 2
| Paul Thomas Anderson (2007, 2021) |
| 2
| Finola Dwyer (2009, 2015) |
| 2
| Amanda Posey (2009, 2015) |
| 2
| Brian Oliver (2010, 2011) |
| 2
| Dana Brunetti (2010, 2013) |
| 2
| Basil Iwanyk (2010, 2015) |
| 2
| Letty Aronson (2011, 2013) |
| 2
| Stephen Tenenbaum (2011, 2013) |
| 2
| Judd Apatow (2011, 2017) |
| 2
| Barry Mendel (2011, 2017) |
| 2
| Martin Scorsese (2011, 2019) |
| 2
| Jonathan Gordon (2012, 2013) |
| 2
| Tim Bevan (2012, 2014) |
| 2
| Wes Anderson (2012, 2014) |
| 2
| Steven Rales (2012, 2014) |
| 2
| Richard Suckle (2013, 2017) |
| 2
| Simon Kinberg (2015, 2016) |
| 2
| Mary Parent (2015, 2021) |
| 2
| Peter Chernin (2016, 2019) |
| 2
| Jenno Topping (2016, 2019) |
| 2
| Denzel Washington (2016, 2020) |
| 2
| Sean McKittrick (2017, 2018) |
| 2
| Jordan Peele (2017, 2018) |
| 2
| Tom Ackerley (2017, 2020) |
| 2
| Graham Broadbent (2017, 2022) |
| 2
| Pete Czernin (2017, 2022) |
| 2
| Martin McDonagh (2017, 2022) |
| 2
| Adam McKay (2018, 2021) |
| 2
| Kevin Messick (2018, 2021) |
| 2
| Kevin Feige (2018, 2022) |
| 2
| Ram Bergman (2019, 2022) |
| 2
| Rian Johnson (2019, 2022) |
| 2
| Denis Villeneuve (2021, 2024) |
| 2
| James Mangold (2019, 2024) |
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Notes
- Since the inception of the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, four animated films have been nominated:
- 2001 Shrek (lost to Moulin Rouge!)
- 2004 The Incredibles (lost to The Aviator)
- 2009 Up (lost to The Hurt Locker)
- 2010 Toy Story 3 (lost to The King's Speech)
References
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