2009 Producers Guild Award Winners

The Producers Guild of America is pleased to announce the winning motion pictures and television productions for the 20th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards. The winners were announced on January 24th, 2009 at the Hollywood Palladium. The following is a list of nominees and winners (in bold):

The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

Slumdog Millionaire - Christian Colson

Nominees:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin

The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas

Frost/Nixon - Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner

Milk - Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen

The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures

Man on Wire - Simon Chinn

Nominees:

Standard Operating Procedure - Julie Bilson Ahlberg, Errol Morris

Trouble the Water - Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

WALL-E - Jim Morris

Nominees:

Bolt - Clark Spencer

Kung Fu Panda - Melissa Cobb

The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award
In Episodic Television – Comedy

30 ROCK - Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey, Marci Klein, Robert Carlock, Jeff Richmond, Jerry Kupfer, David Miner

Nominees:

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Tim Gibbons, Erin O''Malley, Alec Berg, Dave Mandel, Jeff Schaffer

Entourage - Stephen Levinson, Doug Ellin, Rob Weiss, Denis Biggs, Lori Jo Nemhauser, Wayne Carmona

The Office - Greg Daniels, Kent Zbornak

Weeds - Jenji Kohan, Roberto Benabib, Craig Zisk, Nark Burley

Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television-Drama:

Mad Men - Matt Weiner, Scott Hornbacher

Nominees:

Boston Legal - Bill D''Elia, David E. Kelley, Mike Listo, Steve Robin, Janet Knutsen

Damages - Mark A. Baker, Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman

Dexter - John Goldwyn, Sara Colleton, Clyde Phillips, Robert Lloyd Lewis

Lost - Jack Bender, Carlton Cuse, Drew Goddard, Jean Higgins, Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, Damon Lindelof, Liz Sarnoff, Stephen Williams, Ra''uf Glasglow

Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television:

60 Minutes - Jeff Fager

Nominees:

Deadliest Catch - Thom Beers, Jeff Conroy, Lisa Tanzer, Ethan Prochnik

Frontline - David Fanning

Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List - Marcia Mulé, Bryan Scott, Lisa M. Tucker, Kathy Griffin, Chris Carlson, Amy Kohn

This American Life - Ken Druckerman, Ira Glass, Lisa Pollak, Julie Snyder, Banks Tarver, Nancy Updike, Kevin Vargas, Christopher Wilcha

Producer of the Year Award in Live Entertainment and Competition Television:

The Colbert Report - Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, Jon Stewart, Allison Silverman, Richard Dahm, Meredith Bennett, Tom Purcell

Nominees:

Amazing Race - Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman, Hayma “Screech” Washington, Amy Chacon, Elise Doganieri, Mark Vertullo

Project Runway - Rich Bye, Rich Buhrman, Jane Cha, Dan Cutforth, Desiree Gruber, Heidi Klum, Jane Lipsitz

Real time with Bill Maher - Bill Maher, Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Dean Johnsen

Top Chef - Rich Buhrman, Liz Cook, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Shauna Minoprio, Nan Strait, Andrew Wallace

David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television:

John Adams - Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, David Coatsworth, Frank Doelger, Steven Shareshian

Nominees:

24: Redemption - Brian Grazer, Jon Cassar, Howard Gordon, Michael Klick

Bernard and Doris - Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen, Bob Balaban, Kevin Spacey, Mark Olsen

A Raisin in the Sun - Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Sean Combs, John Eckert

Recount - Paula Weinstein, Len Amato, Sydney Pollack, Jay Roach, Michael Hausman

PGA honorary awards and recipients:

Milestone Award

Brian Grazer and Ron Howard

David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

Michael Douglas

Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television

David Chase

Visionary Award

Jeff Skoll

Vanguard Award

MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson

The Stanley Kramer Award

Milk

Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen