There’s merely no stopping “Oppenheimer.”
On Sunday evening, the Producers Guild of America gave its prime movie award to Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic in regards to the father of the atomic bomb, finishing a clear sweep of main business prizes that implies “Oppenheimer” will cruise to a best-picture victory on the Oscars subsequent month.
“We’ve never won this before,” Nolan famous in his acceptance speech, although the PGA had beforehand nominated his movies “Dunkirk,” “Inception” and “The Dark Knight.” Nolan, who produced the movie with Emma Thomas, his spouse, and Charles Roven, continued, “Every time we found ourselves invited into this room, we felt such support for whatever leaps we’ve taken or whatever risks we’ve taken from a group of people who understand how difficult it is to get anything made.”
The PGA Awards are sometimes thought-about a dry run for the Oscars’ greatest image race because the guild shares vital member overlap with the academy and makes use of the identical preferential poll to select its winner. (This yr the PGA nominees matched precisely the Oscar best-picture checklist.) Since 2009, when each teams expanded the variety of best-film nominees from 5, the PGA winner has repeated on the Oscars all however thrice.
Can “Oppenheimer” be beat? Just one movie has ever taken prime prizes from the producers, administrators and actors guilds, as “Oppenheimer” has performed, and nonetheless misplaced the best-picture Oscar, “Apollo 13” (1995). Nolan’s movie is much better located than that one was with two appearing wins potential for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. So the query now isn’t whether or not “Oppenheimer” will triumph on the Oscars, it’s what number of statuettes it is going to earn earlier than taking the highest prize.
Elsewhere on the PGA Awards, which have been held on the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, the documentary prize went to “American Symphony,” whereas “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” was named one of the best animated movie. The highest TV prizes went to season-long sweepers “Succession” (greatest episodic drama), “The Bear” (greatest episodic comedy) and “Beef” (greatest restricted sequence).
Right here’s the entire checklist of winners:
Movie
Function Movie
“Oppenheimer”
Animated Function
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Documentary
“American Symphony”
Tv
Episodic Drama
“Succession”
Episodic Comedy
“The Bear”
Restricted or Anthology Sequence
“Beef”
Tv Film or Streamed Film
“Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea”
Nonfiction Tv
“Welcome to Wrexham”
Reside, Selection, Sketch, Stand-up or Speak Present
“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver”
Recreation or Competitors Present
“RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Sports activities Program
“Beckham”
Kids’s Program
“Sesame Street”
Quick-Type Program
“Succession: Controlling the Narrative”
New Media
Innovation Award
“Body of Mine”
