PGA Awards: One Battle After Another Takes Home Top Film Prize

The 2026 Producers Guild Awards have been handed out, with One Battle After Another continuing its winning streak and taking home the night’s top award.

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures has historically served as the best predictor of who will win best picture at the Oscars, because of the similar membership size between PGA and the Academy, and both of their use of the weighted preferential ballot. Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Train Dreams and Weapons were nominees for that honor, but One Battle was crowned the winner.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson used his time at the mic to shout out Warner Bros.’ Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, who were involved in the making of One Battle, Sinners and Weapons.

“You’ve heard their names over and over again, [they] should get an award for enduring a lot on the road to get these films made. You kept your head down and you protected me; Ryan [Coogler], I’ll speak for you, protected Ryan, protected Zach [Creggar]. You’ve done an incredible job protecting us,” he said in his acceptance speech. “That’s real producing too — getting us out of the gate, letting us do our work, protecting us through the distribution and leading us here. And so whatever the road lies ahead, your work this year is so spectacular. I share this with you. None of us could have done this without the two of you guys and the entire team that you have around you. Long may you wave, whatever the future holds. It is one battle after another.”

A total of 10 categories were announced, alongside awards for animated motion picture and a wide range of TV offerings. KPop Demon Hunters, The Pitt, The Studio, My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert are among those who also took home statues.

Four awards were handed out ahead of Saturday night’s ceremony, with Formula 1: Drive to Survive,Sesame Street,Adolescence: The Making of AdolescenceandThe Wizard of Oz as those early winners. In addition to the competitive prizes, three special honors were presented: Amy Pascal received the David O. Selznick Award; Jason Blumthe Milestone Award; andMara Brock Akilthe Norman Lear Award.

Presenters at this year’s ceremony included Amy Madigan, Delroy Lindo, Elle Fanning, Emily V. Gordon, Greta Gerwig, Ike Barinholtz, Jacob Elordi, Jason Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Joachim Trier, Kate Hudson, Kerry Condon, Kumail Nanjiani, Lisa Gilroy, Mariska Hargitay, Michael Keaton, Odessa A’zion, Paul Mescal, Ralph Farquhar, Regina Hall, Seth Rogen, Teyana Taylor, Thomas Lennon, Vinny Thomas, Wagner Moura, William H. Macy and Wumni Mosaku.

PGA executive director Susan Sprung kicked off the evening, acknowledging the events of the last 24 hours in the Middle East and “praying for peace.” She also addressed the recent deal for Paramount to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, saying, “I know all of us are also thinking about the future of one of our most storied studios and its implications for our industry more broadly. Please note that the guild’s position has not changed. We will continue to call on regulators for the scrutiny and ultimately the safeguards and protections that producers need, that everyone in this business deserves, and that are the right of those who consume what we create. The vitality of our industry is at stake and on that producers will not be silent.”

RalphFarquhar was on hand to present to Brock Akil, who told the room, “I have spent over three decades working inside systems that were not built with me in mind — learning them, navigating them, stretching them. I am deeply grateful to every collaborator, every writer in every writers room, every cast and crew member who trusted me with their talent, their time and their dreams.”

Later in the show, Barry Diller appeared to present to Blum, as the horror mogul acknowledged, “We’re living at this time where machines are very confident that they can pick what will work, that algorithms can tell us everything we’ve ever watched and what we should watch next, and AI can tell us what to stream in the mood we’re in next Tuesday. But what machines can’t do?” He then brought up the success of Heated Rivalry, noting, “If you would ask an algorithm a few months ago to predict a low-budget gay hockey romance with zero known stars, I promise you the algorithm would have been like, do not make that show. But that’s why Heated Rivalry needed us. It needed producers.” Blum added that he even invited the hit show’s producers to be his guests at the show, but they were in New York to watch Connor Storrie host SNL.

And to close out the night, Greta Gerwig presented Pascal with her special honor, gushing that the producer was “the person I dreamed I would meet when I came to Hollywood: a gorgeous, wild, genius woman.” Pascal had the crowd laughing with her speech, particularly when she acknowledged that “the way I became a producer was pretty fucked, and then I got lucky, and then it was all really hard anyway.” She continued that there are many challenges to being a producer, including “knowing that no matter how bad things get, how many mistakes you made, how many failures you have, it’s never really over, no matter what anyone tells you.”

A complete list of this year’s winners follows.

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

Bugonia
Nominees: Ed Guiney, p.g.a., Andrew Lowe, p.g.a., Yorgos Lanthimos, p.g.a., Emma Stone, p.g.a., Lars Knudsen, p.g.a.

F1
Nominees: TBD

Frankenstein
Nominees: Guillermo Del Toro, p.g.a., J. Miles Dale, p.g.a., Scott Stuber, p.g.a.

Hamnet
Nominees: Liza Marshall, p.g.a., Pippa Harris, p.g.a., Sam Mendes, p.g.a., Steven Spielberg, p.g.a., Nicolas Gonda, p.g.a.

Marty Supreme
Nominees: TBD

One Battle After Another
Nominees: Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson (WINNER)

Sentimental Value
Nominees: Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

Sinners
Nominees: Ryan Coogler, p.g.a., Zinzi Coogler, p.g.a., Sev Ohanian, p.g.a.

Train Dreams
Nominees: Marissa McMahon, p.g.a., Teddy Schwarzman, p.g.a., William Janowitz, p.g.a., Ashley Schlaifer, p.g.a., Michael Heimler, p.g.a.

Weapons
Nominees: Zach Cregger, p.g.a., Miri Yoon, p.g.a.

Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

The Bad Guys 2
Nominee: Damon Ross, p.g.a.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Nominees: TBD

Elio
Nominee: Mary Alice Drumm, p.g.a.

KPop Demon Hunters
Nominee: Michelle L.M. Wong, p.g.a. (WINNER)

Zootopia 2
Nominee: Yvett Merino, p.g.a.

Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama

Andor
The Diplomat
The Pitt(WINNER)
Pluribus
Severance
The White Lotus

Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy

The Bear
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building
South Park
The Studio (WINNER)

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television

Adolescence (WINNER)
The Beast in Me
Black Mirror
Black Rabbit
Dying for Sex

Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
The Gorge
John Candy: I Like Me (WINNER)
Mountainhead
Nonnas

Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television

aka Charlie Sheen
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Mr. Scorsese
Pee-wee as Himself(WINNER)
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television

The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert(WINNER)
SNL50: The Anniversary Special

Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television

The Amazing Race
Jeopardy!
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Traitors (WINNER)

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures

The Alabama Solution(HBO Documentary Films)
Cover-Up(Netflix)
Mr. Nobody Against Putin(Made in Copenhagen)
My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay(HBO Documentary Films) (WINNER)
Ocean with David Attenborough(National Geographic)
The Perfect Neighbor(Netflix)
The Tale of Silyan(National Geographic)