The Producers Guild Awards are droning into their fourth hour in Los Angeles.
Best Picture goes to “Everything Everywhere All at Once” like clockwork. Ridiculous, but there it is.
Many players are missing including Steven Spielberg, the “Banshees” actors, and Lizzo, who won an award.
From the pictures sent back from the ballroom, the PGA is in start contrast to the NAACP Image Awards going on at the same time. The PGA room is very white. In one picture that was posted there was one Black man sitting way in a corner. Also, a child was eating dinner at table 15. LOL.
Tom Cruise gave his usual bland speech. Tom has no anecdotes about Hollywood, and no sense of humor. His clip package is presented to the tune of “Also Sprach Zarathustra.”
Whichever movie wins Best Picture might win the Oscar and might not. Stay tuned for Sunday night’s SAG Awards, a much better indicator (but also not on TV).
Tom Cruise’s corporate speech is below. He leaves out of his many thank you’s directors Paul Thomas Anderson and Cameron Crowe, also Paul Brickman who have him his trademark hit with “Risky Business.” No one told Tom that the phrase he ends his speech with, “I am because we are,” was the title of Madonna’s self-hyping doc about Africa years ago. The movie was so much about her we called it “We Are Because I Am.”
EARLIER The PGA — not the golf group — is giving out awards in Los Angeles on a rainy night.
The Producers Guild gives two movie awards– feature film and animated. The latter was just won by “Pinocchio” and Guillermo del Toro. The feature film award won’t come for two hours. By then I will have watched “Saturday Night Live” and tried to remain awake. If “The Whale” wins, someone will spout off.
Tom Cruise will receive the David O. Selznick Award even though Jerry Bruckheimer deserves it. Cruise will give an impersonal speech recalling what movies meant to him as a child in Missouri before he was taken by a cult.
Nominees are
Avatar: The Way of Water”
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Elvis”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“TÁR”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“The Whale”
