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Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Movie producers/writers name their favourites

The Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America have both announced their favourite films of 2010.

The producers' long list for the Darryl F Zanuck Award looks like this:
• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• Inception
• The Fighter
• The Kids Are All Right
• The King’s Speech
• The Social Network
• The Town
• Toy Story 3
• True Grit

The producers' shortlist for animated films looks like this:
• Despicable Me
• How To Train You Dragon
• Toy Story 3

Yes, that's right TS3 is nominated in both categories. Notable omissions include Peter Weir's The Way Back, arguably one of the more difficult quality, awards-worthy movies to produce. And it's intriguing that the only directors to be named as producers
are: Danny Boyle, Chris Nolan and the Coens.

Meanwhile, the WGA is courting controversy by only acknowledging productions that are Guild signatories or those that filmed under agreement with an international WGA affiliate, so The King's Speech (demonstrably one of the best scripts of 2010) does not qualify. Here's the WGA's nominees for original screenplay:
• Black Swan
• The Fighter
• Inception
• The Kids Are All Right
• Please Give

The WGA's nominees for adapted screenplay are:
• 127 Hours
• I Love You Phillip Morris
• The Social Network
• The Town
• True Grit

The PGA will announce its winners on 22 January, while the WGA winners will be declared on 5 February.

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