‘Birdman’ Wins PGA Award In Upset Over ‘Boyhood’

Maybe this is an Oscar competition after all: At Saturday night’s Producers Guild of America Awards, “Birdman” producers Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole won a Darryl F. Zanuck Award for best movie

Why is this significant? Recent history, for one: Since 2007, when “No Country for Old Men” won during a Producers Guild Awards, a guild’s tip endowment leader has matched a Oscars’ Best Picture choice each time. (Last year, “12 Years a Slave” and “Gravity” tied during a PGA Awards18 of 25 times

The PGA Awards is also 2015’s initial vital guild awards

Never blink a ardour of film people to give awards to cinema about film people.

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 25, 2015

“Birdman” and “Boyhood” will conflict again on Sunday night, when a Screen Actors Guild Awards are handed out. Both films are nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

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