Paul Thomas Anderson’s new dark comedy One Battle After Another nabbed the best picture prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards.
Hollywood heavy hitters flooded into the Fairmont Century Plaza in Beverly Hills on Saturday to await the news of the winners with breathless suspense.
The most hotly anticipated category, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, is filled with acclaimed movies that have emerged as contenders for the upcoming Oscars.
In 17 of the past 22 years, the winner of the Zanuck award has gone onto triumph in the best picture category at the Academy Awards.
Oscars victory inched that much closer Saturday night for One Battle After Another, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor and Regina Hall.
Taylor and Hall had taken the stage together earlier that evening, joining a star-studded lineup of showbiz luminaries who presented at the fete.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s new dark comedy One Battle After Another, in which Leonardo DiCaprio is pictured, nabbed the best picture prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards
Its stars Teyana Taylor (left) and Regina Hall (right) had taken the stage together earlier that evening, joining a star-studded lineup of showbiz luminaries who presented at the fete
One Battle After Another triumphed over a category including the Brad Pitt vehicle F1, and the Timothee Chalamet starrer Marty Supreme helmed by Josh Safdie.
Bugonia – the latest collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and his muse Emma Stone, both of whom were producers – was also a competitor in that field.
Chloe Zhao’s biopic Hamnet starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley was also in contention, as is Guillermo Del Toro‘s Frankenstein, the Norwegian film Sentimental Value, the buzzy mystery Weapons and the rugged historical picture Train Dreams.
Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie Sinners, which has achieved a record as the most Oscar-nominated film of all time, rounded out the theatrical motion picture category.
Meanwhile the coveted Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama was given to the medical drama The Pitt, led by ER heartthrob Noah Wyle in a thunderous career comeback.
Facing off against it were the Keri Russell starrer The Comeback, the Star Wars spin-off Andor and The White Lotus, as well as Severance and Pluribus.
The wildly popular KPop Demon Hunters won Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, against Elio, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle and a brace of sequels, The Bad Guys 2 and Zootopia 2.
The now-canceled Late Show with Stephen Colbert won Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! had also been in contention for that prize, after both it host and Colbert’s widely publicized scuffles with the Trump administration.
Also nominated were The Daily Show – with its original host Jon Stewart restored – as well as SNL50: The Anniversary Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
