The Producers Guild of America Awards were originally established in 1990 by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) as the Golden Laurel Awards, created by PGA Treasurer Joel Freeman with the support of Guild President Leonard Stern, in order to honor the visionaries who produce and execute motion picture and television product. The ceremony has been hosted each year by celebrity host/presenters, including Nick Clooney, Michael Douglas, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Garry Marshall, Walter Matthau, Ronald Reagan, Marlo Thomas, Grant Tinker, Ted Turner, and Karen S. Kramer among others.

Ceremonies

Producers of the Year Awards

* Denotes a film that also won a corresponding Academy Award

Film winners

Best Theatrical Motion Picture

• 1989: Driving Miss Daisy *

by producers Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck

• 1990: Dances with Wolves *

by producers Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner

• 1991: The Silence of the Lambs *

by producers Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, and Ron Bozman

• 1992: The Crying Game

by producer Stephen Woolley

• 1993: Schindler's List *

by producers Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, and Steven Spielberg

• 1994: Forrest Gump *

by producers Wendy Finerman, Charles Newirth, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch

• 1995: Apollo 13

by producers Brian Grazer and Todd Hallowell

• 1996: The English Patient *

by producer Saul Zaentz

• 1997: Titanic *

by producers James Cameron and Jon Landau

• 1998: Saving Private Ryan

by producers Steven Spielberg, Allison Lyon Segan, Bonnie Curtis, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn

• 1999: American Beauty *

by producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks

• 2000: Gladiator *

by producers Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick

• 2001: Moulin Rouge!

by producers Fred Baron, Martin Brown, and Baz Luhrmann

• 2002: Chicago *

by producers Martin Richards

• 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King *

by producers Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh

• 2004: The Aviator

by producers Graham King and Michael Mann

• 2005: Brokeback Mountain

by producers Diana Ossana and James Schamus

• 2006: Little Miss Sunshine

by producers Albert Berger, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, and Ron Yerxa

• 2007: No Country for Old Men *

by producers Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen

• 2008: Slumdog Millionaire *

by producer Christian Colson

• 2009: The Hurt Locker *

by producers Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro

• 2010: The King's Speech *

by producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin

• 2011: The Artist *

by producer Thomas Langmann

• 2012: Argo *

by producers Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney

• 2013: 12 Years a Slave * (TIE)

by producers Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, and Dede Gardner

Gravity (TIE)

by producers Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman

• 2014: Birdman *

by producers Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole

• 2015: The Big Short

by producers Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner

• 2016: La La Land

by producers Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt

• 2017: The Shape of Water *

by producers Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale

• 2018: Green Book *

by producers Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga

• 2019: 1917

by producers Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall

• 2020: Nomadland *

by producers Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Jenvey, Chloé Zhao

• 2021: CODA *

by producers Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger

• 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once *

by producers Jonathan Wang, Dan Kwan, and Daniel Scheinert

• 2023: Oppenheimer

by producers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas

Best Animated Motion Picture

• 2005: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit *

by producers Claire Jennings and Nick Park

• 2006: Cars

by producer Darla K. Anderson

• 2007: Ratatouille *

by producer Brad Lewis

• 2008: WALL-E *

by producer Jim Morris

• 2009: Up *

by producer Jonas Rivera

• 2010: Toy Story 3 *

by producer Darla K. Anderson

• 2011: The Adventures of Tintin

by producers Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy

• 2012: Wreck-It Ralph

by producer Clark Spencer

• 2013: Frozen *

by producer Peter Del Vecho

• 2014: The Lego Movie

by producer Dan Lin

• 2015: Inside Out *

by producer Jonas Rivera

• 2016: Zootopia *

by producer Clark Spencer

• 2017: Coco *

by producer Darla K. Anderson

• 2018: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse *

by producers Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

• 2019: Toy Story 4 *

by producers Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera

• 2020: Soul *

by producer Dana Murray

• 2021: Encanto *

by producers Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer

• 2022: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio *

by producers Guillermo del Toro, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley

• 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

by producers Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Christina Steinberg

Stanley Kramer Award

Since 2002, this award has been given for films that "illuminate provocative social issues"

• 2002: I Am Sam

by producers Jessie Nelson, Barbara Hall, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Richard Solomon

• 2003: Antwone Fisher

by producers Todd Black, Randa Haines, and Denzel Washington

• 2004: In America

by producers Jim Sheridan and Arthur Lappin

• 2005: Hotel Rwanda (TIE)

by producer Terry George

Voces inocentes (Innocent Voices) (TIE)

by producer Lawrence Bender

• 2006: Good Night, and Good Luck.

by producer Grant Heslov

• 2007: An Inconvenient Truth

by producers Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, and Laurie David

• 2008: The Great Debaters

by producers Todd Black, Kate Forte, Joe Roth, and Oprah Winfrey

• 2009: Milk

by producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen

• 2010: Precious

by producers Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness

• 2011: Sean Penn

first person to receive a Stanley Kramer Award

• 2012: In the Land of Blood and Honey

by producers Angelina Jolie, Graham King, and Timothy Headington

• 2013: Bully (2011, released in the US in 2012)

by producers Cynthia Lowen, Lee Hirsch, and Cindy Waitt

• 2014: Fruitvale Station

by producers Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi

• 2015: The Normal Heart

by producers Scott Ferguson and Alexis Martin Woodall

• 2016: The Hunting Ground

by producer Amy Ziering

• 2017: Loving

by producers Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, et al.

• 2018: Get Out

by producers Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., and Jordan Peele

• 2019: Bombshell

by producers Aaron L. Glibert, Jay Roach, et al.

Television winners

Best Episodic Comedy

Best Episodic Drama

Best Long-Form Television

Best Limited Series Television

Best Streamed or Televised Movie

References

External links

• Official PGA website
• TheHollywoodReporter: 2008 Nominees