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The big win by “Green Book" at the 30th
Producers Guild Awards set up the film, which stars Mahershala
Ali and Viggo Mortensen as an African-American pianist and his
white driver in the early 1960s Deep South, as a major contender
for next month's Oscars.
In many past years, PGA best film winners have gone on to win
the best picture Oscar, Hollywood’s top prize.
The PGA's best film had been predicted to be a contest between
"A Star is Born" and "Roma". Earlier this month "Green Book" won
the Golden Globe as best musical or comedy.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA), among the leading industry
organizations representing makers of movies and TV shows, also
named its best animated film which went to “Spider-Man: Into the
Spider-Verse", favorite documentary, won by “Won't You Be My
Neighbor?", and honored FX's “The Americans” as the top
television drama in its final season.
FX scored again when Ryan Murphy's "The Assassination of Gianni
Versace: American Crime Story" won the award for limited series.
Among other honors for television productions, Amazon Video's
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” won the comedy series award and
HBO's "Fahrenheit 451" prevailed as best television movie.
CNN's "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", starring the late
celebrity chef who killed himself last year, won for non-fiction
television, while "RuPaul’s Drag Race" on VH1 took home the
prize for reality competition series.
PBS’ “Sesame Street", which debuted nearly 50 years ago, won for
children’s program. The live entertainment/talk award went to
"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver", while "Being Serena" took
best sports program.
The Academy Awards will be given on Feb. 24 to producers,
directors, actors and actresses by the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
(Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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