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Producers Guild of America nominations = Oscars' front-runners
goldderby.latimes.com - 1/5/2009
Producers Guild of America nominations = Oscars' front-runners
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There were no jaw-droppers among the nominees for best picture by the Producers Guild of America: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Dark Knight," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire." A winner will be announced on Jan. 24. Most of the Producers Guild of America nominees tend to ...
awardsdaily.com - 1/5/2009
Producers Guild Nominations!
— awardsdaily.com — The Producers Guild Nominations Slumdog Millionaire The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Milk Frost/Nixon The Dark Knight... Thanks to Quiggles for the heads up. They also appeared on Hitfix. Thanks to Jack for the tip. Producers Guild Nominations!

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TV Nominees of 2009 Producers Guild Awards
aceshowbiz.com - 1/6/2009
TV Nominees of 2009 Producers Guild Awards
— aceshowbiz.com — 'Lost', '24: Redemption' as well as other form of TV series are put as the contenders of... the 20th annual awards event in advance of the Oscars. TV Nominees of 2009 Producers Guild Awards

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Vulture:  Producers Guild Nominations Get Batman’s Hopes Up

Hollywood Elsewhere:  Snoresville

Cinematical:  PGA Nominations Hint at Good Things for Batman

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Producers Guild Nominations Get Batman’s Hopes Up
Vulture — ... . Though PGA winners have gone on to win Best Picture statues an impressive twelve times in the awards' nineteen-year history, notes L.A. Times Oscarologist Tom O'Neil, they have only a 76 percent success rate at predicting Academy Award nominations in the top category, meaning that one of their picks is statistically likely to get screwed on February 2 (and we doubt it'll be Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, or Slumdog Millionaire). ...

Snoresville
Hollywood Elsewhere — Snoresville We're all disappointed, I think, that the Producers Guild of America choose their Best Picture nominees from the exact middle of the pack -- Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight and Frost/Nixon . They didn't even have the balls to nominate WALL*E . Buncha timid consensus pussies. The winner will be announced on 1.24.

PGA Nominations Hint at Good Things for Batman
Cinematical — ... But the more immediate question is whether The Dark Knight will even be nominated for the Oscar. The other four PGA nominees are likely Oscar candidates; it's The Dark Knight that's had the big ol' question mark next to it in people's guesses and predictions. A comprehensive list of past PGA nominees is hard to come by, even at the guild's own website, but Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil has done some number-crunching. He reports that of the 95 Best Picture Oscar nominees between 1990 and 2008, 72 were also PGA nominees. Statistically speaking, that ...

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