The 2025 Producers Guild Of America (PGA) Nominations

The Producers Guild Of America (PGA) have announced their nominations for the ten best films of 2025. Which of them will score a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars? The winners will be announced February 28th. Here are this year’s nominees…

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Bugonia – Nominees: Ed Guiney, p.g.a., Andrew Lowe, p.g.a., Yorgos Lanthimos, p.g.a., Emma Stone, p.g.a., Lars Knudsen, p.g.a.
F1 – Nominees: TBD
Frankenstein – Nominees: Guillermo Del Toro, p.g.a., J. Miles Dale, p.g.a., Scott Stuber, p.g.a.
Hamnet – Nominees: Liza Marshall, p.g.a., Pippa Harris, p.g.a., Sam Mendes, p.g.a., Steven Spielberg, p.g.a., Nicolas Gonda, p.g.a.
Marty Supreme – Nominees: TBD
One Battle After Another – Nominees: Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value – Nominees: Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Sinners – Nominees: Ryan Coogler, p.g.a., Zinzi Coogler, p.g.a., Sev Ohanian, p.g.a.
Train Dreams – Nominees: Marissa McMahon, p.g.a., Teddy Schwarzman, p.g.a., William Janowitz, p.g.a., Ashley Schlaifer, p.g.a., Michael Heimler, p.g.a.
Weapons – Nominees: Zach Cregger, p.g.a., Miri Yoon, p.g.a.

Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Bad Guys 2 – Nominee: Damon Ross, p.g.a.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle – Nominees: TBD
Elio – Nominee: Mary Alice Drumm, p.g.a.
KPop Demon Hunters – Nominee: Michelle L.M. Wong, p.g.a.
Zootopia 2 – Nominee: Yvett Merino, p.g.a.

Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
Andor
The Diplomat
The Pitt
Pluribus
Severance
The White Lotus

The following nominees were previously announced.

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
The Alabama Solution
Cover-Up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay
Ocean with David Attenborough
The Perfect Neighbor
The Tale of Silyan

As far as nominations overlap with the Academy Awards for Best Picture goes, the PGA Awards are a crucial component to possibly understanding what will win the Best Picture Oscar as 13 of the last 16 years of winners have gone on to win the Academy’s big prize since the preferential era began.

2009: The Hurt Locker
2010: The King’s Speech
2011: The Artist
2012: Argo
2013: 12 Years A Slave & Gravity (TIE)
2014: Birdman
2015: The Big Short (Spotlight won Best Picture)
2016: La La Land (Moonlight won Best Picture)
2017: The Shape Of Water
2018: Green Book
2019: 1917 (Parasite won Best Picture)
​2020: Nomadland
2021: CODA
2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once
2023: Oppenheimer
2024: Anora

Which film will triumph this year? The answer lies within these nominees. As far as nomination overlap goes with the Oscars, this is how often the PGA Awards have lined up with the Academy’s choices for Best Picture.

2009: 8/10
2010: 9/10
2011: 7/9
2012: 8/9
2013: 8/9
2014: 7/8
2015: 7/8
2016: 9/9
2017: 7/9
2018: 8/8
2019: 9/9
2020: 7/8
2021: 8/10
2022: 7/10
2023: 10/10
2024: 8/10

And here are the films that have so far received major citations for Best Picture throughout the season so far…

Is this a year where a film could come from outside of the PGA nominations and become a Best Picture nominee? Or will the PGA match ten for ten this year as they did just two years ago? What are you predicting for Best Picture at this point? Our predictions for the Oscar for Best Picture can be found here. What do you think of the nominations? Please let us know your thoughts on our X account. Click here for more upcoming awards season dates, here for the most recent tally of awards season winners, here for our precursor tracker, and here for our current Oscar predictions.