Producers Guild Awards Reveals Children’s, Shortform, Sports & Documentary Nominations – Update

Erik Pedersen

13 December 2024 at 1:00 pm·2-min read

UPDATED, 10 AM: The Producers Guild of America continues to roll out the nominees for its 2025 PGA Awards, with the children’s, shortform and sports categories being revealed today. See the list and read more about the ceremony below.

PREVIOUSLY, December 10: The Producers Guild of America is out with the first nominees for its 2025 PGA Awards. Documentaries are first on the docket, with six films vying in the Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures. See the list below, but the guild notes that all six films are in the process of being vetted for individual producer eligibility.

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The 37th PGA Awards ceremony is set for Saturday, February 8, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Nominations for Theatrical Motion Pictures, Animated Motion Pictures, Television Series/Specials and Streamed or Televised Motion Pictures will be revealed Friday, January 10. The Sports, Children’s and Short Form lists arrive Friday, December 13.

The Producers Guild Awards honors excellence in motion picture, TV and emerging-media productions as well as people shaping the producing profession. Chris Meledandri will receive the 2025 David O. Selznick Achievement Award, and Dana Walden is set for the PGA’s Milestone Award.

The PGA’s marquee film honor, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, long has been considered a strong prognosticator for the Best Picture Oscar, with 16 of the past 21 winners going on to triumph at the Academy Awards. Last awards season followed the trend as the PGA honored Oppenheimer, setting the gilded stage for the Christopher Nolan film’s Oscar triumph two weeks later.

Here are the children’s, shortform, sports and documentary nominees for the 36th annual PGA Awards; click on the links for more info on each:

Outstanding Children’s Program
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Sesame Street
SpongeBob SquarePants

Outstanding Short-Form Program
The Crown: Farewell To A Royal Epic
Hacks: Bit By Bit
The Penguin: Inside Gotham
Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime
Shōgun – The Making of Shōgun

Outstanding Sports Program
Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants
Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend
Simone Biles Rising
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures
Gaucho Gaucho
Mediha
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Porcelain War
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
We Will Dance Again

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