There’s merely no stopping “Oppenheimer.”
On Sunday evening, the Producers Guild of America gave its high movie award to Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic in regards to the father of the atomic bomb, finishing a clear sweep of main business prizes that means “Oppenheimer” will cruise to a best-picture victory on the Oscars subsequent month.
“We’ve by no means gained this earlier than,” Nolan famous in his acceptance speech, although the PGA had beforehand nominated his movies “Dunkirk,” “Inception” and “The Darkish Knight.” Nolan, who produced the movie with Emma Thomas, his spouse, and Charles Roven, continued, “Each time we discovered ourselves invited into this room, we felt such help for no matter leaps we’ve taken or no matter dangers we’ve taken from a bunch of people that perceive how tough it’s to get something made.”
The PGA Awards are sometimes thought-about a dry run for the Oscars’ greatest image race for the reason that guild shares important member overlap with the academy and makes use of the identical preferential poll to choose its winner. (This yr the PGA nominees matched precisely the Oscar best-picture checklist.) Since 2009, when each teams expanded the variety of best-film nominees from 5, the PGA winner has repeated on the Oscars all however thrice.
Can “Oppenheimer” be beat? Just one movie has ever taken high prizes from the producers, administrators and actors guilds, as “Oppenheimer” has accomplished, and nonetheless misplaced the best-picture Oscar, “Apollo 13” (1995). Nolan’s movie is much better located than that one was with two performing wins attainable for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. So the query now isn’t whether or not “Oppenheimer” will triumph on the Oscars, it’s what number of statuettes it would earn earlier than taking the highest prize.
Elsewhere on the PGA Awards, which have been held on the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, the documentary prize went to “American Symphony,” whereas “Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse” was named the very best animated movie. The highest TV prizes went to season-long sweepers “Succession” (greatest episodic drama), “The Bear” (greatest episodic comedy) and “Beef” (greatest restricted collection).
Right here’s the whole checklist of winners:
Movie
Function Movie
“Oppenheimer”
Animated Function
“Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse”
Documentary
“American Symphony”
Tv
Episodic Drama
“Succession”
Episodic Comedy
“The Bear”
Restricted or Anthology Sequence
“Beef”
Tv Film or Streamed Film
“Black Mirror: Past the Sea”
Nonfiction Tv
“Welcome to Wrexham”
Stay, Selection, Sketch, Stand-up or Discuss Present
“Final Week Tonight With John Oliver”
Recreation or Competitors Present
“RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Sports activities Program
“Beckham”
Youngsters’s Program
“Sesame Road”
Quick-Type Program
“Succession: Controlling the Narrative”
New Media
Innovation Award
“Physique of Mine”
