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 Edition Date Location Best Theatrical Motion Picture1st Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 28, 1990Beverly Wilshire HotelDriving Miss Daisy2nd Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 5, 1991Dances with Wolves3rd Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 4, 1992The Silence of the Lambs4th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 1993The Crying Game5th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 2, 1994Schindler's List6th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 8, 1995Forrest Gump7th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 6, 1996Apollo 138th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 12, 1997Universal Hilton HotelThe English Patient9th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 1998The Beverly HiltonTitanic10th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 1999The Century Plaza HotelSaving Private Ryan11th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 2, 2000American Beauty12th Golden Laurel AwardsMarch 3, 2001Gladiator13th Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 3, 2002Moulin Rouge!14th Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 2, 2003Chicago15th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 17, 2004The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King16th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 22, 2005Culver StudiosThe Aviator17th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 22, 2006Universal Hilton HotelBrokeback Mountain18th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 20, 2007The Century Plaza HotelLittle Miss Sunshine19th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 2, 2008The Beverly HiltonNo Country for Old Men20th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 24, 2009Hollywood PalladiumSlumdog Millionaire21st Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 24, 2010The Hurt Locker22nd Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 22, 2011The Beverly HiltonThe King's Speech23rd Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 21, 2012The Artist24th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 26, 2013Argo25th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 19, 201412 Years a Slave & Gravity26th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 24, 2015The Century Plaza HotelBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)27th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 23, 2016The Big Short28th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 28, 2017The Beverly HiltonLa La Land29th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 20, 2018The Shape of Water30th Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 19, 2019Green Book31st Producers Guild of America AwardsJanuary 18, 2020Hollywood Palladium191732nd Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 24, 2021Virtual ceremonyNomadland33rd Producers Guild of America AwardsMarch 19, 2022The Century Plaza HotelCODA34th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 25, 2023The Beverly HiltonEverything Everywhere All at Once35th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 25, 2024Ovation HollywoodOppenheimer36th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 8, 2025Fairmont Century PlazaAnora37th Producers Guild of America AwardsFebruary 28, 2026One Battle After Another
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 2024: The Wild Robot by producer Jeff Hermann
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