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The Shape of Water takes the top prize at the 2018 PGA Awards

January 21, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water received a major boost to its Oscar chances last night when the Producers Guild of America honoured the film with the Darryl F. Zanuck Award at the 2018 PGA Awards.

In the past ten years, the recipient of the Darryl F. Zanuck Award has went on to claim Best Picture at the Academy Awards on eight occasions. It has however been wide of the mark the past two years, honouring The Big Short and La La Land while Best Picture went to Spotlight and Moonlight.

 

 

Here’s the full list of winners…

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Big Sick
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
Molly’s Game
The Post
The Shape Of Water (WINNER)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wonder Woman

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Boss Baby
Coco (WINNER)
Despicable Me 3
Ferdinand
The Lego Batman Movie

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
Chasing Coral
City of Ghosts
Cries from Syria
Earth: One Amazing Day
Jane  (WINNER)
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 9)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 1)  (WINNER)
Master of None (Season 2)
Silicon Valley (Season 4)
Veep (Season 6)

The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
Black Mirror (Season 4)  (WINNER)
Fargo (Season 3)
FEUD: Bette and Joan (Season 1)
Sherlock: The Lying Detective
The Wizard of Lies

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
30 for 30 (Season 8)
60 Minutes (Season 50)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Season 9, Season 10)
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Season 1, Season 2)  (WINNER)
Spielberg

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television 
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (Season 2)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Season 15)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Season 4)  (WINNER)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Season 3)
Saturday Night Live (Season 43)

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television
The Amazing Race (Season 29)
American Ninja Warrior (Season 9)
Lip Sync Battle (Season 3)
Top Chef (Season 14)
The Voice (Season 12, Season 13)  (WINNER)

The Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program:
Better Call Saul’s Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training (Season 1)
Carpool Karaoke (Season 1)  (WINNER)
Humans of New York: The Series (Season 1)
National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts (Season 3)
Viceland at the Women’s March (Season 1)

The Award for Outstanding Sports Program:
All or Nothing: A Season with the Los Angeles Rams (Season 2)
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Season 12)
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Season 23)  (WINNER)
SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt (Season 3)
VICE World of Sports (Season 2)

The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program:
Doc McStuffins (Season 4)
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2017
School of Rock (Season 3)
Sesame Street (Season 47) (WINNER)
SpongeBob SquarePants (Season 10, Season 11)

Filed Under: Awards Season, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television Tagged With: PGA Awards, The Shape of Water

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the suspense thriller Death Among the Pines. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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