2010 Producers Guild Nominations

From Awards Daily, here are the nominees:

Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures:

AVATAR – Producers: James Cameron, Jon Landau
DISTRICT 9 – Producers: Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson
AN EDUCATION – Producers: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
THE HURT LOCKER – Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS – Producer: Lawrence Bender
INVICTUS – Producers: Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Lori McCreary , Mace Neufeld
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE – Producers: Lee Daniels, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness
STAR TREK – Producers: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof
UP – Producer: Jonas Rivera
UP IN THE AIR – Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination.

PGA Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:

9 – Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination.
CORALINE – Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination.
FANTASTIC MR. FOX – Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination.
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG – Producer: Peter Del Vecho
UP – Producer: Jonas Rivera

PGA Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:

BURMA VJ
Producer: Lise Lense-Moller

THE COVE
Producers: Paula DuPre Pesman, Fisher Stevens

SERGIO
Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination.

SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION
Producer(s): Awaiting final credit determination

Most of the  10 films nominated by the PGA this morning will most likely be vying for the Academy Award on March 7th and the Best Picture  race is coming into focus.  The Oscar and the PGA have matched up 13 times over the 20 years. 3 Sci-Fi films make the cut! It’s great to see STAR TREK and DISTRICT 9 in the mix.  Will Neill Blomkamp see a Director’s nod from the Director’s Guild later this week??  A double nomination for UP is Huge! With a snub of NINE, I think its pretty safe to say it’s D.O.A. Overall, I’m very pleased with all the nominations and glad to see both big and small budget films throughout the list.

After AMPAS announced in June that there’d be 10 Best Picture nominees,  the Producers Guild of America decided to be a buncha copycats. Heaven forbid that they be left out, the PGA announced that the 2010 PGA Awards nominations in the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures Category would go from five to ten films.

The 21st Annual PGA Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, January 24, 2010, and will be held once again at the Hollywood Palladium.