Producers Guild Nominates ‘Life, Animated,’ ‘OJ: Made in America’
“Dancer,” “The Eagle Huntress,” “Live, Animated,” “O.J.: Made in America” and “Tower” have been nominated by the Producers Guild of America as the best-produced documentaries of 2016, the PGA announced on Tuesday.
While the Producers Guild Awards are typically one of the most reliable predictors of Oscar success for narrative features, they are notably idiosyncratic and unreliable at predicting the Academy’s documentary category. Over the past five years, only five of the 26 PGA doc nominees have gone on to receive Oscar nominations, with three of those (“Amy,” “Searching for Sugar Man” and “Inside Job”) winning the Oscar.
The documentaries that have fared well with the two main bodies that award nonfiction filmmaking, the International Documentary Association and the Cinema Eye Honors, are “Cameraperson,” “Fire at Sea,” “I Am Not Your Negro,” “O.J.: Made in America,” “13th,” and “Weiner.”
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Other Producers Guild Awards nominations will be announced on January 5 for television and digital categories, and January 10 for film categories. The 28th Annual Producers Guild Awards will take place on January 28 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
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