PGA Awards nominations: How many will make the cut for Best Picture at the Oscars?
The Producers Guild of America Awards announced its nominees for Best Picture on Friday (January 12), just a day after Oscar nominations voting began. The 10 contenders are: “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Barbie,” “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Oppenheimer,” “Past Lives,” “Poor Things,” and “The Zone of Interest.” These match our predicted line-up for Best Picture at the Oscars.
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When the Oscars expanded to 10 nominees in 2010, the Producers Guild of America followed suit. While the academy shifted to a sliding scale in 2012, the PGA Awards stuck with 10 contenders. That leeway has helped it maintain a staggering success rate at previewing the eventual Oscars roster.
Indeed, the guild has predicted 109 of the 126 (i.e., 87%) of the Best Picture nominees over the past 14 years. In the 34-year history of the awards, its pick for best pic has gone on to take home the top Academy Award a whopping 23 times.
The five Best Animated Feature nominees at the PGA Awards include four of our predicted Oscar contenders: “The Boy and the Heron,” “Elemental,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” While we have “Nimona” getting in at the Oscars, the producers preferred the blockbuster hit “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
The PGA Awards will be handed out on Feb. 25. That is right in the middle of the abbreviated voting window for the Oscar winners. The 96th Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 10.
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