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Last night, the Producers Guild of America announced their award winners pushing Oscar season into a new tone with the first guild awards of the year. When commercially successful films like The Help and Bridesmaids lose out to a commercially unsuccessful film like The Artist, the race is pretty much over. Although the DGA will likely try to throw a wrench in the works next weekend, the Best Picture race is pretty much at a close. The Artist has picked up enough major prizes to become a juggernaut and any other outcome would be a complete surprise.

And Steven Spielberg should be smiling. With this win, The Adventures of Tintin moves into a position to become this year’s Oscar winner over critical favorite Rango. However, there’s a caveat. In 2006 when Pixar lost its second Best Animated Feature award in a loss to Happy Feet, Cars had sealed up both the PGA and Annie Award prizes, so this result isn’t final. The only differences here are the facts that Rango wasn’t exactly a crowd-pleasing blockbuster. While it did solid box office numbers, it did so much earlier in the year and wasn’t a $200 million beheamoth like Happy Feet, it performed on the level of most animated features, which isnt’ much of a feat. There also wasn’t the grumbling that Pixar’s film wasn’t quite up to the quality level of past efforts dogging The Adventures of Tintin. We’ll see though, anything can still happen here and I wouldn’t be surprised if Rango still eked out a win.

In addition to the nominees and/or winners listed below, this year, we’re giving you a quick background on each individual precursor including founding year, first awards year and a glimpse at how many predictions the group has gotten right in the last five years. This data can be found below.

As promised, I have posted the history of this particular guild on my website. You can find it by following this link: Producers Guild of America.

The Awards

Best Picture

The Artist

Best Animated Feature

The Adventures of Tintin

Best Documentary Feature

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Journeys of a Tribe Called Quest

Producers Guild of America Data

Year Founded: 1950 (film) / 1957 (tv) / 1962 (unified)
First Awards: 1989 (23)

Precursor Accuracy

KEY:

  • Winner won the corresponding Oscar
  • Winner was nominated for the corresponding Oscar
  • Winner was not nominated for a corresponding Oscar
  • Total (2010-2009-2008-2007-2006)

Picture: 4 (1-1-1-1-0) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Animated Feature: 4 (1-1-1-1-0) W / 5 (1-1-1-1-1) N / 0 (0-0-0-0-0) I
Documentary Feature: 2 (0-1-1-0-X) W / 3 (0-1-1-1-X) N / 1 (1-0-0-0-X) I

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