The 8th PGA Golden Laurel Awards, honoring the best film and television producers of 1996, were held at Universal Hilton Hotel in Hollywood, California on March 12, 1997. The motion picture nominees were announced on January 22, 1997, and the television nominees on February 20, 1997.
Winners and nominees
Film Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion PicturesThe English Patient – Saul Zaentz Shine – Jane Scott Fargo – Ethan Coen Hamlet – David Barron The People vs. Larry Flynt – Oliver Stone, Janet Yang and Michael Hausman
Television Outstanding Producer of Episodic TelevisionLaw & Order – Dick Wolf, Edwin Sherin, Michael S. Chernuchin, René Balcer, Ed Zuckerman, Arthur W. Forney, Gardner Stern, Jeffrey M. Hayes, Lewis Gould, Billy Fox and Jeremy R. LittmanOutstanding Producer of Long-Form Television''Prime Suspect: The Lost Child'' – Rebecca Eaton, Sally Head, Paul Marcus and Brian Park
Special Lifetime Achievement Award in Motion Picture Billy WilderLifetime Achievement Award in Television Edgar J. ScherickMost Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures Mission: Impossible – Tom Cruise and Paula WagnerMost Promising Producer in Television ''Touched by an Angel and Promised Land – Martha Williamson|- ! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;" |Honorary Lifetime Membership Award |- | colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" | Norman Felton|- ! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;" |Visionary Award – Theatrical Motion Pictures |- | colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" | The English Patient – Saul Zaentz|- ! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;" |Visionary Award – Television |- | colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century'' – Blaine Baggett, Jay Winter, and Carl Byker
PGA Hall of Fame Hall of Fame – Motion Pictures12 Angry Men (1957) All About Eve (1950) A Place in the Sun (1951)Hall of Fame – Television ProgramsEleanor and Franklin (1976) Holocaust (1978) The Missiles of October (1974)
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