The Producers Guild Awards film nominations were dominated by blockbusters like “Avatar,” “Top Gun” and “Black Panther”; “Abbott Elementary”, “White Lotus” on the TV list

It’s a big morning for the Producers Guild of America as they announced the film and television nominations for their 34th annual PGA Awards on Thursday.

Follow to make money Avatar: the way of water; Top Gun: Maverick and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever along with commercial hits Elvis, Glass Onion: A Mystery of Knives and Everything, everywhere, all at once all made nominations for the Guild’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Filmmaker. Next to them on the list is Steven Spielberg’s The Fables, The Banshees by Inisherin, Taright and The whale.

As the box office slowly recovers, in some cases reaching or exceeding pre-pandemic levels, the PGA issues a statement with a strong showing for successful films, including as many as four sequels – which could be a record number for the organization’s film awards. The PGA has often favored films that did at the box office, as opposed to, say, critics groups, and the presence of major studios is particularly strong this year, with Walt Disney Co responsible for Marvel’s Black Panther The eagerly anticipated 20th century sequel avatar follow up and searchlight Banshees; Universal with mythical creatures and focus functions’ Tar; Paramount repeats throughout the 36 years to wait for Top Gun sequel; and Warners elvis

This amazing show for the studios didn’t leave much room for the indies, but as expected, A24 delivered the out-of-the-box sensation everything everywhere at once and perhaps also with the most surprising candidate of the bunch The whale, an intimate drama widely talked about for Brendan Fraser’s SAG Awards-nominated and Oscar-winning portrayal of a 600-pound man desperately trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter. Netflix just made the list with Rian Johnson’s sequel to his smash hit knife out which had an unorthodox full week of “sneak previews” over the Thanksgiving holiday at the big three exhibition chains where it did very well and is now climbing the charts for the best movies to play on the streamer as it airs just before Christmas with Netflix started.

Netflix also has a lead among the animated PGA nominees Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro. Also nominated are Pixar/Disney’s Blush; dream job’ Puss in Boots: The Last Wish; A24 is once again playing in the big boys’ sandbox Marcel the shell with shoes on; and in keeping with the PGA’s love affair with money, Universal/Illumination’s biggest animated blockbuster of 2022 Minions: The Rise of Gruwho won a major prize here for the first time.

Failed to make the PGA list of top 10 films Babylon, triangle of sorrow, and titles in foreign languages No news from the western front and that of India RRR – The latter two have major Oscars for best picture, but the PGA rarely nominates foreign language films. Also missing are all the 2022 films directed by women, including the award-winning Talking Women, The Woman King, Till and she said, an unfortunate course on Wednesday with the DGA notice.

The PGA has a strong track record of matching the Oscars, as both have a string of 10 best picture nominees. Last year, PGA got eight out of ten at the Oscars (for which they also vote eligible producers), and both groups decided on the best picture winner. KODA. They also agreed last year land of the nomadsand for 2018 with Green Book. However, the PGA has decided for 2019 1917, while the academy went along Parasite.

On the TV side, with last year’s drama (successor) and comedy (Teddy Lasso) winners not in the mix, the marquee categories are up for grabs. The nominees for the Norman Felton Award for Drama are all newcomers to the race: The Final Seasons of AMC’s You better call Saul and that of Netflix osark along with that of Disney+ AndorApple TV+s dismissal and that of HBO Max The White Lotus. The latter participated in the limited series category a year ago.

of white lotus has been postponed, the nominations for the limited series are those of Netflix Dahmer – Monsters: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer and Anna found outHulu The Fallout and pam and tommyand that of Disney+ Obi Wan Kenobi.

ABC’s are among the nominees in the running for the Danny Thomas Award for Comedy Abbot Primary School which won with HBO Max at the Golden Globes earlier this week barry and CapFXing The bear and that of Hulu Only dead in the building.

Two winners from a year ago are back in their respective categories: HBO’s Emmy champion Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returns with a live entertainment/variety/sketch/stand-up/talk television nomination while RuPaul’s Drag Race is back to defend itself in the leading producers of games and competitive television, where it faces, among others, Prime Videos Lizzo’s Beware of the big grrrls which made it into the Emmy competition show in September.

Below is the full list of nominees for the 2023 PGA Awards, including the Documentary, Sports, Children’s and Short Form categories, announced last month.

PGA Awards 2023

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Best Film Producer

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Banshees by Inisherin

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

elvis

Everything everywhere at once

The Fables

Glass Onion: A Mystery of Blades

tar

Top Gun: Maverick

The whale

Outstanding producer of animated feature films

Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro

Marcel wears the shell with shoes

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Blush

Norman Felton Award for Best Producer, Episodic Television – Drama

Andor

You better call Saul

osark

dismissal

The White Lotus

Danny Thomas Award for Best Producer, Episodic Television – Comedy

Abbot Primary School

barry

The bear

Cap

Only dead in the building

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer or Limited of Anthology Series Television

Dahmer – Monsters: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer

The Fallout

Anna found out

Obi Wan Kenobi

pam and tommy

Outstanding producer of television or streaming films

fire island

Hocus Pocus 2

Pinocchio

prey

Strange: The Story of Al Yankovic

Excellent non-fiction maker

30 for 30

60 minutes

George Carlin’s American Dream

Lucie and Desi

Stanley Tucci: Looking for Italy

Outstanding producer of live entertainment, variety, sketch, stand-up and talk television

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Jimmy KimmelLive!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Saturday night live

Outstanding producer of gaming and competition television

The great race

Lizzo’s Beware of the big grrrls

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars

top chef

The voice

Excellent producer of documentaries

Anything that breathes

descendant

fire of love

Navalny

Incomparable

decrease

the territory

Excellent sports program

Formula 1: fight for survival

Hard Knocks: Training camp with the Detroit Lions

Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers

McEnroe

Tony Hawk: Till the Wheels Fall Off

Excellent children’s program

Fraggle Rock: Back to the rock

Green eggs and ham

Sesame street

Snoopy presents: It’s the little things, Charlie Brown

Waffles + Mochis Restaurant

Excellent short program

You better call Saul: Filmmaker Training

Love, Death + Robots

Only dead in the building: A killer question

#Saamkom Word of the day Sesame Street

Tales of the Jedi