'Birdman' Wins PGA Award In Upset Over 'Boyhood'
Christopher Rosen
The Huffington Post Posted: 01/25/15 10:28 AM ET Updated: 1 hours ago
Maybe this is an Oscar race after all: At Saturday night's Producers Guild of America Awards,
"Birdman" producers Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for best movie, topping Best Picture favorite "Boyhood," among other Oscar nominees, for the honor.
Why is this significant? Recent history, for one: Since 2007, when "No Country for Old Men" won at the Producers Guild Awards, the guild's top award winner has matched the Oscars' Best Picture choice every time. (Last year, "12 Years a Slave" and "Gravity"
tied at the PGA Awards, giving the group a somewhat unfair statistical advantage.) In its history, the PGA Awards has successfully predicted the eventual Best Picture winner
18 of 25 times.
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