The Producers Guild of America Awards were originally established in 1990 by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) as the Golden Laurel Awards,[1] created by PGA Treasurer Joel Freeman with the support of Guild President Leonard Stern, in order to honor the visionaries who produce and execute motion picture and television product. The ceremony has been hosted each year by celebrity host/presenters, including Nick Clooney, Michael Douglas, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Garry Marshall, Walter Matthau, Ronald Reagan, Marlo Thomas, Grant Tinker, Ted Turner, and Karen S. Kramer among others.
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* Denotes a film that also won a corresponding Academy Award
Film winners
Best Theatrical Motion Picture
- by producers Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck
- by producers Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner
- by producers Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, and Ron Bozman
- by producer Stephen Woolley
- by producers Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, and Steven Spielberg
- by producers Wendy Finerman, Charles Newirth, Steve Starkey, and Steve Tisch
- by producers Brian Grazer and Todd Hallowell
- by producer Saul Zaentz
- by producers James Cameron and Jon Landau
- by producers Steven Spielberg, Allison Lyon Segan, Bonnie Curtis, Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn
- by producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks
- by producers Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick
- by producers Fred Baron, Martin Brown, and Baz Luhrmann
- by producers Martin Richards
- by producers Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh
- by producers Graham King and Michael Mann
- by producers Diana Ossana and James Schamus
- by producers Albert Berger, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, and Ron Yerxa
- by producers Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
- by producer Christian Colson
- by producers Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro
- by producers Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin
- by producer Thomas Langmann
- by producers Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney
- by producers Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, and Dede Gardner
- Gravity (TIE)
- by producers Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman
- by producers Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
- by producers Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
- by producers Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt
- by producers Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale
- by producers Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga
- by producers Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall
- by producers Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Jenvey, Chloé Zhao
- by producers Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger
- by producers Jonathan Wang, Dan Kwan, and Daniel Scheinert
- by producers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas
Best Animated Motion Picture
- by producers Claire Jennings and Nick Park
- by producer Darla K. Anderson
- by producer Brad Lewis
- by producer Jim Morris
- by producer Jonas Rivera
- by producer Darla K. Anderson
- by producers Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and Kathleen Kennedy
- by producer Clark Spencer
- by producer Peter Del Vecho
- by producer Dan Lin
- by producer Jonas Rivera
- by producer Clark Spencer
- by producer Darla K. Anderson
- by producers Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
- by producers Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera
- by producer Dana Murray
- by producers Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer
- by producers Guillermo del Toro, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley
- by producers Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Christina Steinberg
Stanley Kramer Award
Since 2002, this award has been given for films that "illuminate provocative social issues"
- by producers Jessie Nelson, Barbara Hall, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Richard Solomon
- by producers Todd Black, Randa Haines, and Denzel Washington
- by producers Jim Sheridan and Arthur Lappin
- by producer Terry George
- Voces inocentes (Innocent Voices) (TIE)
- by producer Lawrence Bender
- by producer Grant Heslov
- by producers Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, and Laurie David
- by producers Todd Black, Kate Forte, Joe Roth, and Oprah Winfrey
- by producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
- by producers Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness
- first person to receive a Stanley Kramer Award
- by producers Angelina Jolie, Graham King, and Timothy Headington
- 2013: Bully (2011, released in the US in 2012)
- by producers Cynthia Lowen, Lee Hirsch, and Cindy Waitt
- by producers Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi
- by producers Scott Ferguson and Alexis Martin Woodall
- by producer Amy Ziering
- by producers Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, et al.
- by producers Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., and Jordan Peele
- by producers Aaron L. Glibert, Jay Roach, et al.
Television winners
Best Limited Series Television
Best Streamed or Televised Movie