‘Oppenheimer’ has now swept the Producers, Directors and Screen Actors Guild awards, establishing it as the overwhelming favorite to win best picture.
Christopher Nolan’s big canvas biopic “Oppenheimer” won the Producers Guild of America’s top honor Sunday night, a day after it took the ensemble prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Nolan won the Directors Guild of America’s feature-film directing award two weeks ago.
“Oppenheimer” thus became the 11th movie to sweep the Producers, Directors and Screen Actors Guild awards, establishing it as the overwhelming favorite to win the best picture Oscar on March 10. Of the 10 previous films to hit that awards season trifecta — a list that includes “No Country for Old Men,” “Argo” and the last two best picture winners, “CODA” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” only one, “Apollo 13,” failed to go on to win the Oscar.
Emma Thomas, who has produced all of Nolan’s films, accepted the honor onstage with fellow producer Charles Roven and Nolan, her husband, who she called the “best producing partner you could hope for.”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” which won seven awards last weekend at the animation celebration Annie Awards, took the PGA’s animated theatrical feature honor.
“American Symphony,” Matthew Heineman’s look at musician Jon Batiste trying to realize a professional dream while his wife, author Suleika Jaouad, battles leukemia, won the documentary award. The win was a bit of an upset, but still less surprising than the film’s omission from the Oscars’ documentary feature category.
