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PGA Heads Reflect on Guild’s Success Predicting Best Picture Oscar Winners

The Producer’s Guild Awards have an enviable track record in predicting the top Oscar prize.

For Donald De Line, a studio exec turned producer who serves as PGA president alongside Stephanie Allain, the guild’s track record adds to the anticipation surrounding the pre-Oscar kudofest. But the quality and scope of the films, which range from big blockbusters “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” to international entries “Anatomy of a Fall” and “Zone of Interest,” is even more important to PGA leadership. “There are associate producers and production managers, who deal with mostly below the line issues and budgets and schedules and all the technical, extremely important things that go on in the making of any kind of content.

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