The Oscar race is heating up with nominations announced tomorrow morning and the winner at the PGA Awards could indicate which film may take home top honors.
Green Book took home top honors at the PGA’s with a Best Picture win. For those keeping a tally, Green Book has won the People’s Choice prize at the Toronto Film Festival, Best Picture at the National Board Of Review, and the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Comedy/Musical). The odds seem in its favor to nab the Academy Award for Best Picture but this season has been very interesting, to say the least, and there have been many frontrunners for the top prize. A Star Is Born started out as an early favorite then Roma took some of its heat. Bohemian Rhapsody, though not as loved by critics, took home Best Picture (Drama) at the Golden Globes and apparently members of the Academy LOVE the movie. Needless to say, it’s a wide-open race but the wins for Green Book are very significant.
Green Book, directed by Peter Farrelly, prevailed over a widely diverse array of nominees that included Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Rich Asians, The Favourite, A Quiet Place, Roma, A Star Is Born and Vice. Farrelly, who also produced the film, shared the PGA Award with his fellow producers Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, and Nick Vallelonga.
In other categories, Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse fended off competition from animation powerhouses Pixar, fielding Incredibles 2, and Disney Animation, with its Ralph Wrecks the Internet. Spider-verse now seems like the likely frontrunner to take home the Best Animated Feature Oscar. The documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? took home Best Documentary honors and while this field has been pretty varied, the doc does seem poised for a win at the Oscars as well if it’s nominated.
On the TV side, the PGA Award winner for outstanding producer of episodic TV, drama, was FX’s The Americans, and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel took the prize for episodic TV comedy. The newly named David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television was given to FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, while the newly created award for Outstanding Produced of Streamed or Television Movies went to HBO’s Fahrenheit 451.
