Producers Guild of America Awards

The Producers Guild of America Awards were originally established in 1990 by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) as the Golden Laurel Awards,[1] created by PGA Treasurer Joel Freeman with the support of Guild President Leonard Stern, in order to honor the visionaries who produce and execute motion picture and television product. The ceremony has been hosted each year by celebrity host/presenters, including Nick Clooney, Michael Douglas, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Garry Marshall, Walter Matthau, Ronald Reagan, Marlo Thomas, Grant Tinker, Ted Turner, and Karen S. Kramer among others.

Ceremonies

EditionDateLocationBest Theatrical Motion Picture
1st Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 28, 1990Beverly Wilshire HotelDriving Miss Daisy
2nd Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 5, 1991Dances with Wolves
3rd Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 4, 1992The Silence of the Lambs
4th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 1993The Crying Game
5th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 2, 1994Schindler's List
6th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 8, 1995Forrest Gump
7th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 6, 1996Apollo 13
8th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 12, 1997Universal Hilton HotelThe English Patient
9th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 1998The Beverly HiltonTitanic
10th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 1999The Century Plaza HotelSaving Private Ryan
11th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 2, 2000American Beauty
12th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 2001Gladiator
13th Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 3, 2002Moulin Rouge!
14th Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 2, 2003Chicago
15th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 17, 2004The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
16th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 22, 2005Culver StudiosThe Aviator
17th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 22, 2006Universal Hilton HotelBrokeback Mountain
18th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 20, 2007The Century Plaza HotelLittle Miss Sunshine
19th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 2, 2008The Beverly HiltonNo Country for Old Men
20th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 24, 2009Hollywood PalladiumSlumdog Millionaire
21st Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 24, 2010The Hurt Locker
22nd Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 22, 2011The Beverly HiltonThe King's Speech
23rd Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 21, 2012The Artist
24th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 26, 2013Argo
25th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 19, 201412 Years a Slave & Gravity
26th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 24, 2015The Century Plaza HotelBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
27th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 23, 2016The Big Short
28th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 28, 2017The Beverly HiltonLa La Land
29th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 20, 2018The Shape of Water
30th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 19, 2019Green Book
31st Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 18, 2020Hollywood Palladium1917
32nd Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 24, 2021Virtual ceremonyNomadland
33rd Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 19, 2022The Century Plaza HotelCODA
34th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 25, 2023The Beverly HiltonEverything Everywhere All at Once
35th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 25, 2024Ovation HollywoodOppenheimer
36th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 8, 2025Fairmont Century PlazaAnora
37th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 28, 2026One Battle After Another

Producers of the Year Awards

* Denotes a film that also won a corresponding Academy Award

Film winners

Best Theatrical Motion Picture

by producers Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck
by producers Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner
by producers Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, and Ron Bozman
by producer Stephen Woolley
by producers Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, and Steven Spielberg
by producers Wendy Finerman, Charles Newirth, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch
by producers Brian Grazer and Todd Hallowell
by producer Saul Zaentz
by producers James Cameron and Jon Landau
by producers Steven Spielberg, Allison Lyon Segan, Bonnie Curtis, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn
by producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks
by producers Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick
by producers Fred Baron, Martin Brown, and Baz Luhrmann
by producers Martin Richards
  • 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King *
by producers Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh
by producers Graham King and Michael Mann
by producers Diana Ossana and James Schamus
by producers Albert Berger, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, and Ron Yerxa
by producers Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
by producer Christian Colson
by producers Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro
by producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin
by producer Thomas Langmann
by producers Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney
by producers Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, and Dede Gardner
Gravity (TIE)
by producers Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman
by producers Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
by producers Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
by producers Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt
by producers Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale
by producers Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga
by producers Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall
by producers Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Jenvey, Chloé Zhao
by producers Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger
by producers Jonathan Wang, Dan Kwan, and Daniel Scheinert
by producers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas

Best Animated Motion Picture

  • 2005: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit *
by producers Claire Jennings and Nick Park
by producer Darla K. Anderson
by producer Brad Lewis
by producer Jim Morris
  • 2009: Up *
by producer Jonas Rivera
by producer Darla K. Anderson
by producers Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy
by producer Clark Spencer
by producer Peter Del Vecho
by producer Dan Lin
by producer Jonas Rivera
by producer Clark Spencer
by producer Darla K. Anderson
  • 2018: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse *
by producers Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
by producers Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera
by producer Dana Murray
by producers Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer
by producers Guillermo del Toro, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley
  • 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
by producers Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Christina Steinberg
by producer Jeff Hermann

Stanley Kramer Award

Since 2002, this award has been given for films that "illuminate provocative social issues"

by producers Jessie Nelson, Barbara Hall, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Richard Solomon
by producers Todd Black, Randa Haines, and Denzel Washington
by producers Jim Sheridan and Arthur Lappin
by producer Terry George
Voces inocentes (Innocent Voices) (TIE)
by producer Lawrence Bender
by producer Grant Heslov
by producers Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, and Laurie David
by producers Todd Black, Kate Forte, Joe Roth, and Oprah Winfrey
by producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
by producers Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness
first person to receive a Stanley Kramer Award
by producers Angelina Jolie, Graham King, and Timothy Headington
  • 2013: Bully (2011, released in the US in 2012)
by producers Cynthia Lowen, Lee Hirsch, and Cindy Waitt
by producers Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi
by producers Scott Ferguson and Alexis Martin Woodall
by producer Amy Ziering
by producers Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, et al.
by producers Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., and Jordan Peele
by producers Aaron L. Glibert, Jay Roach, et al.

Television winners

Best Episodic Comedy

Best Episodic Drama

Best Long-Form Television

Best Limited Series Television

Best Streamed or Televised Movie

References