‘The Artist’ Takes Top Prize at PGA Awards; Locks Up Best Picture Oscar?
The Artist made another major step toward locking in the Oscar for Best Picture by taking home the top prize at the 23rd Producer Guild Award which recognized Thomas Langmann as the Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Pictures for the year. At this point, the black-and-white silent film is virtually a lock to take home the Academy Awards’ top prize next month.
The winner of the PGA’s top award has gone on to claim the Best Picture Oscars nearly three times out of four since 1990, most recently doing so the last three year with The King’s Speech, The Hurt Locker and Slumdog Millionaire. Contending for the prize were Bridesmaids, The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo, The Help, The Ides of March, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, and War Horse.
So what’s next? On Tuesday, Oscar nominations will be announced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences while the DGA Awards will be presented on Saturday. If the DGA endorses The Artist as well, consider this Oscar race over. Winners have gone on to win the best picture Oscar on 50 out of 63 occasions.
On a footnote, The Adventures of Tintin surprisingly bested favorite Rango for the top prize in the animated category.
What do you think? Is “The Artist” a lock to win Best Picture at this point?
16 Comments
Yaay for Tintin! And The Artist I suppose. I kind of liked the awards race till now, with all the competition, but the field is narrowing down.
Yea it’s really turning into a runaway for The Artist at this point. Let’s see what the DGA brings…
I would be perfectly fine with The Artist winning best picture, it is certainly deserving of a nomination at least. I think the real races this year will be in the acting, animated, and foreign film categories.
Yea the acting categories will be fun although who will get nominations is fairly predictable at this point.
Yep, I’d be ok with it winning Best Picture too. I’d rather have it be that than say, Hugo or War Horse.
Yep, exactly
I just posted my review of The Artist today and after seeing it yesterday. I think that film is pretty much a lock to win Best Picture although it’s not the film I want to win that prize.
What do you want to win Best Picture?
Yes, the Best Picture race is looking more and more like a snoozefest, which is fine because The Artist does deserve it. I really don’t think anyone would blame the Academy for rewarding an excellent movie for once…
Ahha indeed Gibbs
I would much rather see Hugo take home the Oscar. I think The Artist is getting a little too much hype at this point. Either way, both are great love letters to the medium of cinema so I’m not surprised that both are in the running.
Yea make movies about movies and watch all the people in the industry fall in love with it…
As much as I’d like a more excited Oscar race, I’m kinda happy that The Artist has Best Picture all locked in. Even if I haven’t seen it yet
Hope you get to see it soon Stevee!
You’re absolutely right about the importance of the DGA nod. At this rate, the race will be over before most folks even start paying attention to it!
As the Academy is so in love with films about films I think it has a great chance for Best Picture. Now they don’t feel guilty anymore for not giving Scorsese a Best Director Oscar, I think The Artist will beat Hugo to the big prize.
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