Producers Guild Awards 2010 Articles
THE HURT LOCKER's Upset Win Over AVATAR: PGA Awards 2010
Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) Their film's Producers Guild win was great news for the Hurt Locker team. Just yesterday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Jeremy Renner lost the best actor award to Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart — admittedly, no big surprise — but much more damning, the film's cast lost SAG's ensemble award to Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious [...]
THE HURT LOCKER, THE COVE, UP: Producers Guild Awards 2010
Following James Cameron's best director upset at the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild of America one-upped the Hollywood Foreign Press Association by choosing not the blockbuster Avatar, but Kathryn Bigelow's independently made Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker (above, top photo) as the best film (or best producers) of the year. Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal, Nicholas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro are the film's credited producers. [...]
AVATAR In, Oprah Out: PGA Awards 2010
Sam Worthington in Avatar (WETA / 20th Century Fox) The Academy is probably hoping that Oscar voters will follow the Producers Guild of America' lead, as their top-ten list features one mega-blockbuster, James Cameron's Avatar (more than $1 billion worldwide), and no less than four blockbusters: J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, Pete Docter's Up, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Neill Blomkamp's District 9. The rationale is [...]
AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER, STAR TREK: Producers Guild 2010 Nominations
Stephen Lang, Sam Worthington in Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) (top); Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton in Precious (Anne Marie Fox / Lionsgate) (middle); George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) (bottom) James Cameron's Avatar, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, and Neill Blomkamp's sleeper hit District 9 are three science-fiction films included in the Producers Guild of America's list of nominees [...]