# Producers Guild of America Awards

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 Picture |
| 1st Golden Laurel Awards | March 28, 1990 | Beverly Wilshire Hotel | Driving Miss Daisy |
| 2nd Golden Laurel Awards | March 5, 1991 | Beverly Wilshire Hotel | Dances with Wolves |
| 3rd Golden Laurel Awards | March 4, 1992 | Beverly Wilshire Hotel | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 4th Golden Laurel Awards | March 3, 1993 | Beverly Wilshire Hotel | The Crying Game |
| 5th Golden Laurel Awards | March 2, 1994 | Beverly Wilshire Hotel | Schindler's List |
| 6th Golden Laurel Awards | March 8, 1995 | Beverly Wilshire Hotel | Forrest Gump |
| 7th Golden Laurel Awards | March 6, 1996 | Beverly Wilshire Hotel | Apollo 13 |
| 8th Golden Laurel Awards | March 12, 1997 | Universal Hilton Hotel | The English Patient |
| 9th Golden Laurel Awards | March 3, 1998 | The Beverly Hilton | Titanic |
| 10th Golden Laurel Awards | March 3, 1999 | The Century Plaza Hotel | Saving Private Ryan |
| 11th Golden Laurel Awards | March 2, 2000 | The Century Plaza Hotel | American Beauty |
| 12th Golden Laurel Awards | March 3, 2001 | The Century Plaza Hotel | Gladiator |
| 13th Producers Guild of America Awards | March 3, 2002 | The Century Plaza Hotel | Moulin Rouge! |
| 14th Producers Guild of America Awards | March 2, 2003 | The Century Plaza Hotel | Chicago |
| 15th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 17, 2004 | The Century Plaza Hotel | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 16th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 22, 2005 | Culver Studios | The Aviator |
| 17th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 22, 2006 | Universal Hilton Hotel | Brokeback Mountain |
| 18th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 20, 2007 | The Century Plaza Hotel | Little Miss Sunshine |
| 19th Producers Guild of America Awards | February 2, 2008 | The Beverly Hilton | No Country for Old Men |
| 20th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 24, 2009 | Hollywood Palladium | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 21st Producers Guild of America Awards | January 24, 2010 | Hollywood Palladium | The Hurt Locker |
| 22nd Producers Guild of America Awards | January 22, 2011 | The Beverly Hilton | The King's Speech |
| 23rd Producers Guild of America Awards | January 21, 2012 | The Beverly Hilton | The Artist |
| 24th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 26, 2013 | The Beverly Hilton | Argo |
| 25th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 19, 2014 | The Beverly Hilton | 12 Years a Slave & Gravity |
| 26th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 24, 2015 | The Century Plaza Hotel | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 27th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 23, 2016 | The Century Plaza Hotel | The Big Short |
| 28th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 28, 2017 | The Beverly Hilton | La La Land |
| 29th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 20, 2018 | The Beverly Hilton | The Shape of Water |
| 30th Producers Guild of America Awards | January 19, 2019 | The Beverly Hilton | Green Book |
| 31st Producers Guild of America Awards | January 18, 2020 | Hollywood Palladium | 1917 |
| 32nd Producers Guild of America Awards | March 24, 2021 | Virtual ceremony | Nomadland |
| 33rd Producers Guild of America Awards | March 19, 2022 | The Century Plaza Hotel | CODA |
| 34th Producers Guild of America Awards | February 25, 2023 | The Beverly Hilton | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 35th Producers Guild of America Awards | February 25, 2024 | Ovation Hollywood | Oppenheimer |
| 36th Producers Guild of America Awards | February 8, 2025 | Fairmont Century Plaza | Anora |

## 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.