Up next: Producers Guild of America Award
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The next major trophy to be doled out this derby season will be the Producers Guild of America Award this Saturday night. Nominees for best picture: ‘127 Hours,’ ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘The Fighter,’ ‘The Kids Are All Right,’ ‘The King’s Speech,’ The Social Network,’ ‘The Town,’ ‘Toy Story 3’ and ‘True Grit.’ Most pundits predict ‘The Social Network’ will its victorious juggernaut.
Over the past 20 years, the winner has matched the Oscar for best picture 12 times. The full list of PGA champs is below. Disagreements with Oscar are noted.
1990 – ‘Dances with Wolves’
1991 – ‘The Silence of the Lambs’
1992 – PGA: ‘The Crying Game;’ Oscars: ‘Unforgiven’
1993 – ‘Schindler’s List’
1994 – ‘Forrest Gump’
1995 – PGA: ‘Apollo 13;’ Oscars: ‘Braveheart’
1996: ‘The English Patient’
1997: ‘Titanic’
1998: PGA: ‘Saving Private Ryan;’ Oscars: ‘Shakespeare in Love’
1999: ‘American Beauty’
2000: ‘Gladiator’
2001: PGA: ‘Moulin Rouge!;’ Oscars: ‘A Beautiful Mind’
2002: ‘Chicago’
2003: ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’
2004: PGA: ‘The Aviator;’ Oscars: ‘Million Dollar Baby’
2005: PGA: ‘Brokeback Mountain;’ Oscars: ‘Crash’
2006: PGA: ‘Little Miss Sunshine;’ Oscars: ‘The Departed’
2007: ‘No Country for Old Men’
2008: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
2009 – ‘The Hurt Locker’ -- Tom O’Neil