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Brokeback Mountain Takes
2006 Producers Guild Award
By Rich Drees
January 23, 2006-
Director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain won top honor at the 17th
annual Producers Guild Awards held last night in Los Angeles,
beating out nominees Capote, Crash, Good Night, And
Good Luck and Walk The Line. Receiving the award were the
film’s producers Diana Ossana and James Schamus.
Taking home the first trophy the Guild has awarded for animated film
were Claire Jennings and Nick Park for the Park directed Wallace
& Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit.
The Producers Guild Award is considered one of the main predictors
for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with 11 Guild Award winners
capturing corresponding Oscars over the last 16 years.
Receiving the Guild’s David O. Selznick Award was legendary
low-budget producer Roger Corman, who helped launch the careers of
many filmmakers including Peter Bogdanovich, James Cameron, Francis
Ford Coppola and Jonathan Demme and actors like Jack Nicholson.
Clint Eastwood received the Guild’s Milestone Award while the
Stanley Kramer Award was given to the film Good Night, And Good
Luck.
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