The Producer’s Guild of America have announced their ten Best Feature nominees for the 2014 year in cinema.
American Sniper
Producers: Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Andrew Lazar, Robert Lorenz and Peter Morgan
Birdman
Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood
Producers: Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
Foxcatcher
Producers: Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik and Bennett Miller
Gone Girl
Producer: Ceán Chaffin
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Producers: Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Jeremy Dawson and Steven Rales
The Imitation Game
Producers: Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman
Nightcrawler
Producers: Jennifer Fox and Tony Gilroy
The Theory of Everything
Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten
Whiplash
Producers: Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster
Thoughts on these nominees, plus the nominees for production in documentary and animated films, and the editing guild award nominees (The Eddies) can be found after the jump.
The notable exception here is Selma, heavily favoured to be nominated for Best Picture and Best Director (Ava DuVernay). Others that missed out were Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner, Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. Traditionally, ‘most’ of the nominees at the Producer’s Guild go on to score a Best Picture nomination, so films like American Sniper, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler and Whiplash are looking pretty good. That isn’t to say Selma (or Unbroken, though that is looking increasingly unlikely) won’t be a spoiler.
Nightcrawler, in particular, has been edging its way into consideration after long being overlooked. Nominations at the SAG, Golden Globes and Editing Guild have it in good shape. American Sniper has been generating buzz too. It has scored well at the Box Office, Bradley Cooper is being talked about as an outside chance at a Best Actor nomination and it also was nominated by the Editing Guild.
Foxcatcher has been receiving a lot of hot and negative press, with the Mark Schultz tirade against director Bennett Miller, but it still looks to have some support. Whiplash could follow in the footsteps of Sundance hit Beasts of the Southern Wild two years ago, well in contention for nominations for Picture, Original Screenplay, Supporting Actor and Editing.
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Big Hero 6
Producer: Roy Conli
The Book of Life
Producers: Brad Booker and Guillermo del Toro
The Boxtrolls
Producers: David Bleiman Ichioka and Travis Knight
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Producer: Bonnie Arnold
The LEGO Movie
Producer: Dan Lin
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
The Green Prince
Producers: John Battsek, Simon Chinn, Nadav Schirman
Life Itself
Producers: Garrett Basch, Steve James, Zak Piper
Merchants of Doubt
Producers: Robert Kenner, Melissa Robledo
Particle Fever
Producers: David E. Kaplan, Mark A. Levinson, Andrea Miller, Carla Solomon
Virunga
Producers: Joanna Natasegara, Orlando von Einsiedel
You can find all of the ACE Eddie (Editing Guild) Nominations below:
In the dramatic and comedy categories here, eleven films have been nominated, but perhaps not the eleven most prognosticators expected. Excluded are: Selma, The Theory of Everything and Foxcatcher; with American Sniper, Nightcrawler and Whiplash again bolstering their chances of an Editing nomination (and subsequently a Best Picture nomination) at the upcoming Oscars.
Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic)
American Sniper
Joel Cox & Gary Roach
Boyhood
Sandra Adair
Gone Girl
Kirk Baxter
The Imitation Game
William Goldenberg
Nightcrawler
John Gilroy
Whiplash
Tom Cross
Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical)
Birdman
Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione
Guardians of the Galaxy
Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne and Craig Wood
Into the Woods
Wyatt Smith
Inherent Vice
Leslie Jones
Grand Budapest Hotel
Barney Pilling
Best Edited Animated Feature Film
Big Hero 6
Tim Mertens
The Boxtrolls
Edie Ichioka
The Lego Movie
David Burrows and Chris McKay
Best Edited Documentary Feature Film
Citizenfour
Mathilde Bonnefoy
Finding Vivian Maier
Aaron Wickenden
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
Elisa Bonora