DARK CAMPAIGN

Producer’s Guild of America nominates TDK for Best Picture!

by Blair on Jan.05, 2009, under NEWS

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has named its five finalists for Best Moving Picture of 2008:

`Dark Knight’ vies for Producers Guild best pic

5 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (AP)  — The Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight,” slighted in earlier Hollywood honors, was among best-picture nominees Monday for the Producers Guild of America Awards.

Other best-picture nominees were Brad Pitt’s romantic fantasy “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Ron Howard’s Richard Nixon saga “Frost/Nixon,” Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk film biography “Milk” and Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches tale “Slumdog Millionaire.” Hollywood’s biggest blockbuster in a decade and one of the year’s most-acclaimed films, “The Dark Knight” missed out on a best-picture slot for Sunday’s Golden Globes and was overlooked for an ensemble cast nomination at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The Producers Guild lineup generally is a close match of best-picture nominees for the Academy Awards. The guild picks could give “The Dark Knight” and other contenders a last-minute nudge for the Oscars, whose nomination balloting closes Jan. 12. Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 22.

This is terrific news.  Despite the snub from the nonsensical Globes, TDK is making a big last minute push to pull back into the fight.

12 comments for this entry:
  1. Ryan
    January 5th, 2009 on 7:24 pm

    Great news. I think the re-release will help the movie too. It really deserves best picture. The people have spoken. Going to see a movie is voting for it, and TDK wins by a land slide.

  2. Tom
    January 5th, 2009 on 8:47 pm

    Hopefully this push will help it beat Titanic by the time it’s re-release has ended. Right now I think Dark Knight will get 10 nominations Picture, director, supp actor, score, cinematography, Art-direction, Visual effects, Film editing, Sound dubbing/mixing, and Sound effects editing.

  3. R W O
    January 6th, 2009 on 8:57 am

    Can TDK break the records of Benhur, LOTR or Titanic ?
    It’s hard, but I hope TDK can do it.

  4. Rayne
    January 6th, 2009 on 1:08 pm

    Unfortunately, The Re-Release of The Dark Knight at the end of this month will not fall within the timetable written in the “Rules and Regulations” on the Academy’s Web Page.

    Rule Three, Paragraph One states:
    The required Los Angeles County qualifying run (described in Rule Two Paragraph 2) must open between January 1, 2008 and midnight of December 31, 2008.

    Now, even though the second run of this great epic film does not fall within the guidelines to be given additional consideration, it was still released within the above mentioned timetable to be nominated to begin with. The only thing that could work in it’s favor is that the Academy Members will have a chance to see it again.

    For further Rules & Regulations, please visit http://www.oscar.org and click on “Rules and Eligability”, then click on “View official Rules for the 81st Academy Awards”.

  5. WillyJoel
    January 6th, 2009 on 8:37 pm

    The Dark Knight for:
    Best Picture
    Best Director
    Best Supporting Actor
    Best Cinematography
    Best Adapted Screenplay
    Best Make-Up
    Best Costume
    Best Sound
    Best Sound Editing
    Best Film Editing
    Best Score

    Easily, 11 nominations right there,

  6. vampyra
    January 7th, 2009 on 1:14 am

    What had started out as a ripple is now a tidal wave! I can’t wait for the Academy Awards.

  7. val
    January 7th, 2009 on 3:00 am

    This is excellent! And they say a nom at the PGA means a sure shot oscar nod! WooHoo!!!! GO TDK !!!!!

  8. Aleš
    January 7th, 2009 on 11:16 am

    Hope The Dark Knight gets an Oscar for Best Picture!!!

  9. Tom
    January 7th, 2009 on 12:53 pm

    @WillyJoel
    I think you might be right. The WGA just gave it an adapted screenplay nomination. Which just about gives it the eleventh oscar nomination that I didn’t feel as confident in naming.

  10. Big Braveheart
    January 10th, 2009 on 10:48 am

    WillyJoel called it right! TDK should be up for at least 11 Oscars and should walk away with some. It was THEE best produced film of 2008 and should be rewarded
    for it’s huge efforts! If the Academy are bold enough they should reward it.
    Why don’t they just relax and let a film of the people be the Best Picture.
    It didn’t make the cash because it was bad and the critics and reviews have been
    top notch so Academy chill out a bit and let TDK reap the rewards!!!

  11. bob
    January 11th, 2009 on 7:31 pm

    PGA’s are very good oscar indicators. 4/5 nominees usually go on for an oscar nom for best picture. lets hope the academy brings the dark knight into the lucky 4.

  12. Avian
    January 12th, 2009 on 2:08 pm

    I have about 8 friends who are going to see it in IMAX again. The Dark Knight, Best Film of the year!

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