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“Selma” Excluded from Producers Guild Awards Nominations

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selma1?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1420552112196“Selma” – Paramount(LOS ANGELES) — The Producers Guild of America on Monday announced the motion picture nominees for its 2015 awards ceremony, and one critical favorite was noticeably snubbed.

The Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma was excluded from the list of 10 nominees for theatrical motion picture producer. The films that did make the cut, in alphabetical order, are American Sniper, Birdman, Boyhood, Foxcatcher, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Nightcrawler, The Theory of Everything and Whiplash.

Five films are nominated in the animated movie category: Big Hero 6, The Book of Life, The Boxtrolls, How To Train Your Dragon 2 and The LEGO Movie.

The PGA also announced its long-form television category on Monday. The FX series Fargo and American Horror Story: Freak Show are among the contenders.

The nominees in the other movie and TV categories were previously revealed in late 2014.

The 26th Annual Producers Guild Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Jan. 24.

A full list of nominees is available on ProducersGuild.org. Here are the nominees in select categories:

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash


The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
The LEGO Movie


The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television

American Horror Story: Freak Show, FX
Fargo, FX
The Normal Heart, HBO
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, PBS
Sherlock, PBS

The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama

Breaking Bad, AMC
Downton Abbey, PBS
Game Of Thrones, HBO
House Of Cards, Netflix
True Detective, HBO

The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy

The Big Bang Theory, CBS
Louie, FX
Modern Family, ABC
Orange Is The New Black, Netflix
Veep, HBO

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television

30 For 30, ESPN
American Masters, PBS
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN
COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey, FOX/NatGeo
Shark Tank, ABC

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television

The Amazing Race, CBS
Dancing With The Stars, ABC
Project Runway, Lifetime
Top Chef, Bravo
The Voice, NBC

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television

The Colbert Report, Comedy Central
Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, HBO
Real Time With Bill Maher, HBO
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, NBC


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