In addition to the competitive awards, Dana Walden, Taika Waititi, Chris Meledandri and the late Lynda Obst and Paula Weinstein were honored during Saturday night's Producers Guild ceremony.

Within 24 hours, "Anora" surged to the front of the Oscar pack, with the Palme d'Or winner earning the top prizes at the PGA and DGA Awards 2025.

UPDATED with PGA win: Sean Baker won both the PGA Awards ‘ and DGA Awards ‘ top prizes for Neon’s Anora — on the same night. And if past statistics are a signifier of what’s to come, it is a major indicator for both the Oscars’ Best Director category as well as Best Picture.

Sean Baker's freewheeling fractured fairy tale took top honors from both the producing and directing guilds, restoring its front-runner status at the Oscars.

Maybe Anora was the frontrunner all along. In the weeks since the Oscar nominations were announced, Oscar pundits and awards strategists have treated the wide-open Best Picture race like an adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears,

The movie nabbed two of the top guild prizes on the same night, cementing its status as the Best Picture frontrunner. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Anora Takes the Lead with PGA and DGA Wins. Anora has emerged as the front runner for Best Picture at the Academy Awards next month thanks to wins from the

So unusually both PGA and DGA, two ever-so-important guild awards ceremonies that can predict the Oscars somehow landed, for the first time I can recall, on the same night in two nearby hotels in Beverly Hills.