15th Annual Event to be Held Saturday, January 17th

The Producers Guild of America announced the nominated motion picture and television productions and honorees for the 2004 Producers Guild Awards, taking place on Saturday, January 17th at the Century Plaza Hotel.
The nominees are:

Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award
in Theatrical Motion Pictures

Cold Mountain (Miramax Films)
Sydney Pollack
William Horberg
Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa

The Last Samurai (Warner Bros.)
Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick
Tom Cruise & Paula Wagner

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line Cinema)
Barrie M. Osborne
Peter Jackson
Fran Walsh

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
(Twentieth Century Fox)
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Duncan Henderson
Peter Weir

Mystic River (Warner Bros.)
Robert Lorenz
Judie G. Hoyt
Clint Eastwood

Seabiscuit (Universal Pictures)
Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Gary Ross


David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award
in Long-Form Television


And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (HBO)
Joshua D. Maurer
Mark Gordon
Larry Gelbart

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (CBS)
Peter Sussman
Ed Gernon
John Ryan

My House in Umbria (HBO)
Frank Doelger
Robert Allan Ackerman
Ann Wingate

Normal (HBO)
Cary Brokaw
Lydia Dean Pilcher

The Pentagon Papers (fX)
Joshua D. Maurer


Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award
in Episodic Television - Drama

Alias (ABC)
J.J. Abrams
John Eisendrath
Ken Olin
Sarah Caplan

C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation (CBS)
Jerry Bruckheimer
Carol Mendelsohn
Anthony E. Zuiker
Ann M. Donahue
Jonathan Littman
Danny Cannon
Cynthia Chvatal & William Petersen
Louis Milito

Six Feet Under (HBO)
Alan Ball
Alan Poul
Robert Greenblatt & David Janollari

24 (FOX)
Joel Surnow
Robert Cochran
Brian Grazer
Howard Gordon
Norman Powell

The West Wing (NBC)
Aaron Sorkin
Thomas Schlamme
John Wells
Alex Graves
Christopher Misiano
Llewellyn Wells
Neal Ahern, Jr.

Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award
in Episodic Television - Comedy

Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)
Ray Romano
Philip Rosenthal
Lisa Helfrich Jackson
Ken Ornstein

Malcolm In the Middle (FOX)
Linwood Boomer
Jimmy S. Simons
Matthew Carlson
Gary Murphy & Neil Thompson
Michael Glouberman & Andrew Orenstein
Michael Borkow
Alex Reid
Rob Hanning

Scrubs (NBC)
Bill Lawrence
Randall Winston

Sex and the City (HBO)
Michael Patrick King
Cindy Chupack
John P. Melfi
Sarah Jessica Parker
Jenny Bicks
Jane Raab

Will & Grace (NBC)
Max Mutchnick & David Kohan
James Burrows
Jeff Greenstein
Jhoni Marchinko
Tim Kaiser


Producer of the Year Award
in Reality /Game/Informational Series

The Amazing Race 4 (CBS)
(Arbitration Pending)

American Idol (FOX)
Simon Fuller
Nigel Lythgoe
Ken Warwick
David Goffin

Biography (A&E)
(Various Independent Producers)

Project Greenlight (HBO)
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Chris Moore
Sean Bailey
Dan Cutforth & Jane Lipsitz
Eli Holzman
Tony Yates

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo)
David Collins
Michael Williams
David Metzler
Lynn Sadofsky

Survivor: Pearl Islands (CBS)
(Arbitration Pending)

HONOREES

Milestone Award
being presented to Warren Beatty

David O. Selznick Achievement Award
in Theatrical Motion Pictures
being presented to Dino De Laurentiis

David Susskind Achievement Award in Television
being presented to Lorne Michaels

Vanguard Award
Sponsored by Intel and United Airlines
being presented to James Cameron

VOTING TIMELINE


1/15/04: Final polls close.
1/17/04: Nominee breakfast hosted by the Hollywood Reporter.
1/17/04: Awards dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel.


2003/04 ELIGIBILITY AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Eligibility requirements are as follows:

Series: every nationally broadcast series that has originally aired, or will originally air, in the calendar year 2003 is eligible. We have three Series categories within which each show will be classified - Comedy, Drama and Reality/Game/Informational.


Longform Television: all nationally broadcast mini-series, MOWs, etc. that have originally aired, or will originally air, between January 1, 2003 and November 30, 2003 are eligible. (Please note: this eligibility period is new as of this year - any Longform Television programs that originally air in December 2003 will not be eligible until the following year.)


Theatrical Motion Pictures: all motion pictures that premiere in accordance with A.M.P.A.S. rules of eligibility for the calendar year 2003 are eligible.
In order to ensure that the producers of a production are fully eligible for a potential nomination, we will be conducting an accreditation process. As such, the following materials are necessary in order for a production and its producers to be considered for an award: