Monday, January 5, 2009

AWARDS SEASON: Producers announce their favorites

In an awards season that has already has its share of surprises, the Producers Guild of America dropped another one today, announcing Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight as one of its top movies of the year.

The film one was of five nominees for the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which will be presented Saturday, Jan. 24.

In addition to Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas for The Dark Knight, the other nominees were The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin), Frost/Nixon (Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner), Milk (Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen) and Slumdog Millionaire (Christian Colson).

The nominated feature documentaries were Man on Wire (Simon Chinn), Standard Operating Procedure (Julie Bilson Ahlberg and Errol Morris) and Trouble the Water (Carl Deal and Tia Lessin).

Bolt (Clark Spencer), Kung Fu Panda (Melissa Cobb) and Wall-E (Jim Morris) are up for animated feature.

Over in TV land, Curb Your Enthusiam, Entourage, The Office, 30 Rocks and Weeds are up for comedy, and Boston Legal, Damages, Dexter, Lost and and Madmen for drama.

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