PGA Nominees

The Producers Guild of America has announced its nominations with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire as contenders for PGA’s top feature award.

The PGA’s announcement appears to be of the norm with nominees for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award include Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall and Cean Chaffin for Benjamin Button; Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas for The Dark Knight; Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner for Frost/Nixon; Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen for Milk; and Christopher Colson for Slumdog Millionaire.

The group also announced its documentary feature nominees, which the category was launched last year. The nominees are Simon Chin for Man on Wire, Julie Bilson Ahlberg and Errol Morris for Standard Operating Procedure (a Screenhead giveaway), and Carl Deal and Tia Lessin for Trouble the Water.

For a complete list of nominations, go to PGA official website here.

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ESPN2 Tuesday Night Movies

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ESPN has designated Tuesday night is movie night at ESPN for a slate of full-length documentaries, which is set to air on ESPN2.   

According to Variety.com the documentaries are set to arrive are “Hellfighters” (April 22), about Harlem’s only high school football team; “The Streak” (April 29) chronicles the 451 consecutive wins by the Brandon High School (Tampa, Fla.) wrestling team; “Bud Greenspan: Heart of the Games” (May 6) profiles the man who’s best known for his Olympic profiles; and “The Zen of Bobby V” (May 13), about former Major League baseball manager Bobby Valentine, who’s now managing in Japan.

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