Producers Guild Awards 2024 Winners List

Refresh for latest: The Producers Guild is next up on your awards-season bingo card. The group is holding its 35th annual PGA Awards ceremony tonight at The Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, and Deadline is posting the winners as they are announced. Check below for the list so far, which includes the winning producers along with the four awards presented earlier in the week.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse built on last weekend’s Annie Awards dominance and solidified its front-runner status for the Animated Feature Oscar with a PGA win for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures.

The night’s first film prize went to the producers behind American Symphony, who won for Documentary Motion Picture.

The small-screen awards are following last month’s Emmys script, with Beef winning for Anthology or Limited Series.

The evening started off with the award for TV comedy, and The Bear continued its ursine stranglehold on trophies this year. Following its Emmy and SAG Awards triumphs, the sophomore FX series claimed the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy.

A little later, the Emmy-laden Last Week with John Oliver went home with the trophy in the mouthful category of Outstanding Producer Of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television.

Another Emmy regular, RuPaul’s Drag Race, won the PGA Award for Game & Competition TV, and Welcome to Wrexham went home with the trophy for Nonfiction TV.

The award for Televised or Streaming Movie went to Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea.

The 2023 juggernaut duo of Barbie and Oppenheimer will face off against American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things and The Zone of Interest for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for the marquee film prize, Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.

The Zanuck Award long has been considered a strong prognosticator for the Best Picture Oscar, with 15 of the past 20 going on to triumph at the Academy Awards. Last year followed the trend as the PGA honored Everything Everywhere All at Once, which took the Oscar two weeks later.

Gail Berman received the PGA’s 2024 Norman Lear Achievement Award tonight, and a highlight of her acceptance speech was describing the hassles of getting TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer greenlighted. “Not a single person was interested in buying that television show,” she said onstage. “I mean not a single person on this Earth was interested in buying that television show. I couldn’t ignore my gut. An empowerment story with a young woman at the center. We got no after no after no. Then one day, we finally got a yes. And I gotta say, it all comes down to resilience.”

Berman, who is CEO of Grimsburg and The Perfect Couple producer The Jackal Group, has produced more than 300 episodes of television during her 38-year career. Her expansive portfolio also also includes such hits as American Idol, the Buffy spinoff Angel, The Addams Family films and Netflix’s Wednesday.

Later on, Charles D. King — founder & CEO of Macro, a multiplatform media company representing the voices and perspectives of Black people, indigenous people and people of color — was feted with the guild’s Milestone Award. It recognizes producers or production teams that have made historic contributions to the entertainment industry.

“I stand on the shoulders of all the incredible producers, executives, my parents and our ancestors who kicked down doors, made sacrifices and blazed a trail for me to be able to do what I’m blessed to do,” he said in accepting the honor.

Also revealed Sunday night was a new initiative aimed at getting PGA members access to healthcare. Producer Guild presidents Stephanie Allain and Donald De Line announced during the ceremony that the group has launched its drive to see ensure health insurance benefits for all full-time producers in the film and TV biz.

The guild got a jump on its 2024 awards on Thursday in Los Angeles and Tuesday in Manhattan, revealing winners in its Short Form, Sports and Children’s categories along with its PGA Innovation Award recipient.

On Tuesday, Season 1 of Netflix’s docuseries Beckham took the Outstanding Sports Program prize, and Season 53 of Max’s Sesame Street won for Outstanding Children’s Program. Then on Thursday, the PGA named Succession: Controlling the Narrative as Outstanding Short Form Program and presented it Innovation Award to Body of Mine.

Here are the winners revealed so far for the 35th annual PGA Awards:

WINNERS

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television
Beef
Producers: Lee Sung Jin, Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan, Alli Reich, Carrie Kemper, Jes Anderson, Savey Cathey, Inman Young, Matthew Medlin, Alex Russell, Alice Ju

Award For Outstanding Producer Of Televised Or Streamed Motion Pictures
Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea
Producers: Charlie Brooker, Jessica Rhoades, Annabel Jones

Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Welcome to Wrexham
Producers: Josh Drisko, Bryan Rowland, Jeff Luini, Alan Bloom, Nicholas Frenkel, George Dewey, Rob McElhenney, Ryan Reynolds, Miloš Balać, Liz Spano, Aaron Lovell, Shannon Owen, Patrick McGarvey, Patrick Gooing, Molly Milstein

Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Producers: Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, Christina Steinberg

Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Producers: RuPaul Charles, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, Mandy Salangsang, Steven Corfe, Michele Mills, Tim Palazzola, John Polly, Thairin Smothers, Lisa Steele, Sara Kordy, Jen Passovoy, Jeremy McGovern, Michelle Visage, Ashlei Dabney, Michael Seligman, Alicia Gargaro-Magaña, Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews

Award For Outstanding Producer Of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Producers: John Oliver, Tim Carvell, Liz Stanton, Jeremy Tchaban, Catherine Owens, Whit Conway, Kaye Foley, Laura L. Griffin, Christopher McDaniel, Kate Mullaney, Matt Passet, Megan Peck Shub, Wynn Van Dusen, Marian Wang, Charles Wilson

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
American Symphony
Producers: Lauren Domino, Matthew Heineman, Joedan Okun

Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
The Bear
Producers: Josh Senior, Joanna Calo, Christopher Storer, Matty Matheson, Cooper Wehde, Rene Gube, Tyson Bidner

Outstanding Short Form Program
Succession: Controlling the Narrative

PGA Innovation Award
Body of Mine

Outstanding Sports Program
Beckham (Season 1)

Outstanding Children’s Program
Sesame Street (Season 53)