Every year Hollywood looks to the Producers Guild Awards winner to forecast the Best Picture Oscar.
That’s because in the 12 years since both groups expanded their top award list and adopted the preferential ballot, only three times have the winners not aligned — PGA winners “1917,” “La La Land” and “The Big Short” did not land Best Picture.Those differences made sense, as in each case a smaller, lower-budget movie took home the Oscar over a movie of scale and scope.
And as expected, this year’s Darryl F.
Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of a Motion Picture went to Chloé Zhao’s magic-hour road trip “Nomadland,” as voted on by the guild’s 8,000 members.
Searchlight’s frontrunner looms large in a field of small movies, as it keeps racking up wins on its way to multiple Oscars come April 25.“We’re proud to have produced a film about community and what connects us,
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