PRODUCERS ENDORSE NOMADLAND
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) named its winners for film and television last night and the win for Best Feature Film went to Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. Pixar's Soul was named best Animated feature of the year.
A number of outlets suggested that the PGA win may well be the last indicator anyone needs to conclude that Nomadland will be the Best Picture winner when the final announcement is made on Oscar night, April 25th.
However, the PGA doesn't always presage an Oscar win. In recent years 1917, La La Land and The Big Short won the PGA but then missed winning the big prize on Oscar night (per Indiewire's Anne Thompson). As a matter of fact, the PGA historically matches with Oscar about 2/3 of the time according to Deadline. com the match has happened 21 times in the organizations 31 years of existence.
I have included links below to a number of sources covering the awards last night:
Variety
The Hollywood Reporter
Indiewire
Deadline
Awards Daily
CANNES UNCERTAINTY
More reporting suggests that there is a possibility that the Cannes Film Festival may be looking at a move to the fall. Roger Friedman of ShowBiz 411.
Friedman's article suggests the potential of an October date and makes sure to mention that that would be post-Telluride, Toronto, Venice and New York though New York's normal run is late Sept. into October.
Friedman also pointedly mentions the chaos that would ensue among the fall fests and for the film makers should Cannes move to October writing:
"I’m thinking Thierry Fremaux must be having a nervous breakdown. The poor man. He didn’t get to have a 2020 Festival. And now this. He could show all the 2020 movies at this point in a sidebar. And no one knows what’s happened to Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch.”
Fall movies for festivals are a big question, too. Where will Steven Spielberg unveil West Side Story?"
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