Producers Guild of America Awards: 'Oppenheimer', 'The Bear' continue winning spree

'Oppenheimer' continued to steamroll its path to Oscar glory on Sunday night, claiming the top prize at the 2024 Producers Guild of America Awards.

Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Chuck Roven and their producing team took home the Darryl F. Zanuck Award, which recognises excellence in producing for a theatrical feature film.

Thomas, told the crowd that many may not know that Nolan, the film's writer and director (and her husband), excelled most in his role as producer: "He's absolutely brilliant, we've worked on 12 films now."



'The Bear', another unstoppable awards force that won big at this weekend's Screen Actors Guild Awards, got the PGA's Danny Thomas Award for best episodic comedy series.

The ceremony also saw several career achievement awards. Sarah Michelle Gellar stepped out to present super-producer Gail Berman, who made the former a star with 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', with a trophy named for Norman Lear.



"When I say that not a single person on this earth was interested in buying that television show, I mean not a single person on earth was interested in buying that television show," Berman told the crowd at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood.

She persisted and wound up creating an iconic character that empowered young women around the world. Berman dedicated her award to her husband and children -- the people who "lift me up when there's barely any air left in the punching bag".

At the evening's end, Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro gave a moving tribute to Martin Scorsese, the 2024 recipient of the David O. Selznick Achievement Award. While celebrating his defining works such as 'Taxi Driver' and 'Goodfellas', del Toro said Scorsese is now living one of the more transformative moments in his professional life.

"An artist's spirit cannot be tamed," del Toro said. "It will remain vital, savage and even undomesticated -- even in the fourth or fifth decade of a prestigious career."

Scorsese brought the ballroom to its feet with a standing ovation. He recalled meeting a previous winner of the Selznick award, director Alfred Hitchcock, who had advice for producers in his own PGA acceptance speech.

The 'Psycho' director lectured filmmakers on "runaway productions", or films that ran too long and over budget. And he advised the crowd, per Scorsese, "Make producers and directors more faithful to their wives."

Check out the complete winners' list below:

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (WINNER)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony (WINNER)
Beyond Utopia
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
The Mother of All Lies
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
The Morning Show
Succession (WINNER)

Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
Barry
The Bear (WINNER)
Jury Duty
Only Murders in the Building
Ted Lasso

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television
All the Light We Cannot See
Beef (WINNER)
Daisy Jones and the Six
Fargo
Lessons in Chemistry

Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion PicturesBlack Mirror: Beyond the Sea (WINNER)
Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
Quiz Lady
Reality
Red, White & Royal Blue

Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
60 Minutes
The 1619 Project
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Being Mary Tyler Moore
Welcome to Wrexham (WINNER)Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
Carol Burnett: 90 Years Of Laughter + Love
Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (WINNER)
Saturday Night Live

Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
The Amazing Race
RuPaul’s Drag Race (WINNER)
Squid Game: The Challenge
Top Chef
The Voice

Award for Outstanding Sports Program
100 Foot Wave (S2)
Beckham (S1) (WINNER)
Formula 1: Drive to Survive (S5)
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the New York Jets (S18)
Shaun White: The Last Run (S1)

Award for Outstanding Children’s Program
Goosebumps (S1)
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (S1)
Sesame Street (S53) (WINNER)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (S2)
The Velveteen Rabbit

Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program
Carpool Karaoke (S5C)
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (S3)
The Last of Us: Inside the Episode (S1)
Only Murders in the Building: One Killer Question (S3)
Succession: Controlling the Narrative (S4) (WINNER)PGA Innovation Award
Body of Mine (WINNER)
The Eye and I
JFK Memento
Letters From Drancy
MLK: Now Is the Time
Ocean of Light: Dolphins VR
Our Ocean Our Future
Out of Scale, A Kurzgesagt Adventure
Reimagined
Space Explorers: Blue Marble Trilogy
Wallace & Gromit in The Grand Getaway
The World’s Largest Tailgate