Producers Guild of America (PGA) documentary nominations announced

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced their nominations in the category of Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture for their 22nd annual PGA Awards which will be held at the Beverly Hilton on January 22nd, 2011. The nominees are Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Earth Made of Glass, Inside Job, Smash His Camera, The Tillman Story and Waiting for ‘Superman’. The remaining nominations will be announces on January 4, 2011.

The PGA Awards are one of the key guild awards in the lead-up to the Oscars. Last year's winner of the main Darryl F. Zanuck Award was The Hurt Locker, which then went on to capture the Best Picture Academy Award. Those who were paying attention to this result were not nearly so surprised when The Hurt Locker won. The PGA give awards to both film and television.

The awards to be given by the PGA are the following:

The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television—Comedy
The Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television—Drama
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Live Entertainment and Competition
The David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television
The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures

The Producers Guild of America is the non-profit trade group that represents, protects and promotes the interests of all members of the producing team in film, television and new media. The PGA represents over 4,300 members.

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DOCUMENTARY THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2011 PRODUCERS GUILD AWARDS

LOS ANGELES, CA (December 3, 2010) – The Producers Guild of America (PGA)
announced today the Documentary Theatrical Motion Picture nominees that will advance
in the voting process for the 22nd Annual Producers Guild Awards.
The nominated films, listed below in alphabetical order, are:

• CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER
• EARTH MADE OF GLASS
• INSIDE JOB
• SMASH HIS CAMERA
• THE TILLMAN STORY
• WAITING FOR ‘SUPERMAN’

Nominations for the other Producers Guild Award categories will be announced January
4, 2011, along with the individual producers. The 2011 Producers Guild Awards
ceremony will take place on January 22, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

http://www.producersguild.org/