The Fourtinity of Guilds: PGA, SAG & DGA winners and WGA nominees

Zerda Temmuz 17, 2021

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is composed by more a less 8000 members in a total of 17 branches. Every branch nominate and pick the winners of a certain field (the Actors branch pick the 4 acting categories, directors pick Best Director, writers pick Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay and Documentary pick Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject, for example), but all the branches have a vote for Best Picture!

And that's why the guild awards are so important! Despite not being as selective as the Academy in terms of membership, the guild awards mirror a certain branch's most popular film! In every category, the nominee with most votes wins the Oscar - but not in Best Picture! There's a thing called: preferential balloting! It means, AMPAS members rank the Best Picture nominees for #1 choice to (in this year's case) #9.... and Best Picture winner must have 50% of votes for Best Picture +1 - and it goes for rounds! If in the first round no film gets half of the votes, then they will look to #2 votes, then #3 votes and so on until a Best Picture scores more than 50% of the votes.

Right now, only 3 movies have scored a nomination from every American Guild awards: Parasite, The Irishman and Jojo Rabbit have all scored PGA, DGA, SAG for Ensemble and a WGA award nominations, while other notorious Best Picture contenders missed at least 1: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood missed WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay because it was considered ineligible AND 1917 is a one-man show (well, a two-men show) and it missed the SAG Award nomination for Best Ensemble.

So, just have a look at the nominees (and winners) lists:

PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA (PGA) AWARD

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

1917 - Producers: Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne‐Ann Tenggren, Callum McDougall - WINNER
Ford v Ferrari - Producers: Peter Chernin & Jenno Topping, James Mangold
The Irishman - Producers: Jane Rosenthal & Robert De Niro, Emma Tillinger Koskoff & Martin Scorsese
Jojo Rabbit - Producers: Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi
Joker - Producers: Todd Phillips & Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Knives Out - Producers: Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman
Little Women - Producer: Amy Pascal
Marriage Story - Producers: Noah Baumbach, David Heyman
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood - Producers: David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, Quentin Tarantino
Parasite - Producers: Kwak Sin Ae, Bong Joon Ho

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

Abominable - Producer: Suzanne Buirgy
Frozen II - Producer: Peter Del Vecho
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Producers: Bradford Lewis, Bonnie Arnold
Missing Link - Producers: Arianne Sutner, Travis Knight
Toy Story 4 - Producers: Mark Nielsen, Jonas Rivera - WINNER

SCREEN GUILD OF AMERICA (SAG) AWARD

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture:

Bombshell (Lionsgate)
The Irishman (Netflix)
Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Sony)
Parasite (Neon) - WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role:

Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
Renée Zellweger, Judy - WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role:

Christian Bale, Ford v Ferrari
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker - WINNER

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role:

Laura Dern, Marriage Story - WINNER
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Nicole Kidman, Bombshell
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Margot Robbie, Bombshell

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role:

Jamie Foxx, Just Mercy
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - WINNER

DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA (DGA) AWARDS

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2019

Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Sam Mendes, 1917 - WINNER
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director for 2019

Mati Diop, Atlantics
Alma Har’el, Honey Boy - WINNER
Melina Matsoukas, Queen & Slim
Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, The Peanut Butter Falcon

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, American Factory - WINNER
Feras Fayyad, The Cave
Alex Holmes, Maiden
Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, Honeyland
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, One Child Nation

WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA (WGA) AWARDS (nominees only)

Best Original Screenplay

1917, Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Booksmart, Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins and Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman
Knives Out, Rian Johnson
Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach
Parasite, Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won, Story by Bong Joon Ho

Best Adapted Screenplay

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster, Inspired by the Article “Can You Say…Hero?” by Tom Junod
The Irishman, Steven Zaillian, Based upon the Book “I Heard You Paint Houses” by Charles Brandt
Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi, Based on the book “Caging Skies” by Christine Leunens
Joker, Todd Phillips & Scott Silver, Based on Characters from DC Comics
Little Women, Greta Gerwig, Based on the Novel by Louisa May Alcott