Brokeback Mountain Takes

2006 Producers Guild Award

By Rich Drees

     January 23, 2006- Director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain won top honor at the 17^th annual Producers Guild Awards held last night in Los Angeles, beating out nominees Capote, Crash, Good Night, And Good Luck and Walk The Line. Receiving the award were the film’s producers Diana Ossana and James Schamus.

     Taking home the first trophy the Guild has awarded for animated film were Claire Jennings and Nick Park for the Park directed Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit.

     The Producers Guild Award is considered one of the main predictors for the Academy Award for Best Picture, with 11 Guild Award winners capturing corresponding Oscars over the last 16 years.

     Receiving the Guild’s David O. Selznick Award was legendary low-budget producer Roger Corman, who helped launch the careers of many filmmakers including Peter Bogdanovich, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola and Jonathan Demme and actors like Jack Nicholson. Clint Eastwood received the Guild’s Milestone Award while the Stanley Kramer Award was given to the film Good Night, And Good Luck.