PGA Documentary Awards nominations include the Oscar frontrunners
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced the seven titles nominated for its 2024 Documentary Motion Picture award on December 12. Each of the films will advance to the final round of voting for the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards which will take place on Sunday, February 25.
The films nominated for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures are:
“20 Days in Mariupol”
“American Symphony”
“Beyond Utopia”
“The Disappearance of Shere Hite”
“The Mother of All Lies”
“Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”
“Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)”
Recognition from the PGA is not always a reliable indicator of which direction AMPAS will go in determining the Oscar winner. Though PGA and AMPAS matched on their winners over the last three years with “Navalny,” “Summer of Soul,” and “My Octopus Teacher,” they differed the three years before that when the PGA winners “Apollo 11” (2019), “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (2018), and “Jane” (2017) weren’t even nominated for the Oscar.
Among this year’s PGA nominees are four films that appear to be in a strong position for notice from the academy. “20 Days in Mariupol,” “American Symphony,” “The Disappearance of Shere Hite,” and “The Mother of All Lies” all screened at the DOC NYC film festival, an annual taste-making event for non-fiction hopefuls. “20 Days in Mariupol” was also nominated for top honors by Cinema Eye Honors and the Critics Choice Documentary Awards. “American Symphony” was also a CCDA nominee and “The Mother of All Lies” was nominated by both CEH and the International Documentary Association. “Beyond Utopia” was a CCDA nominee as well and “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” was the non-fiction winner at the European Film Awards.
“Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” is not listed among the documentary films eligible for an Oscar nomination this year. A total of 167 documentaries made the cut for the 96th Academy Awards and all six of the other PGA nominees are on that list. The academy’s shortlist of the 15 non-fiction films that will remain in contention for the Documentary Feature award will be revealed on December 21.
The PGA will continue its roll out of nomination announcements on Friday, December 15 when they name the titles up for Sports, Children’s and Short Form Television Programs. The nominees for Theatrical Motion Pictures, Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, Television Series/Specials, and Televised/Streamed Motion Pictures will be announced on Thursday, January 12.
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