Producers, Writers Guild Announce Nominees

Two major steps to Oscar were taken Wednesday as the Producers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America announced nominations for their annual film awards.

The Producers Guild's five candidates for this year's Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture are the drama about forbidden romance, "Brokeback Mountain"; the Truman Capote biopic "Capote"; the racially-charged drama "Crash"; the Edward R. Murrow biopic "Good Night, and Good Luck" ; and the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line."

The PGA also cited five nominees for Best Animated Motion Picture: "Chicken Little," "Madagascar," "Robots," "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" and "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."

On the WGA side, the guild tapped "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "The Constant Gardner," "A History of Violence" and "Syriana" for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Among the WGA's Best Original Screenplay nominees were "Cinderella Man," "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "The Squid and the Whale."

The guild awards generally provide a clearer picture of what may be nominated for Oscars, in that the membership may contain members of the Motion Picture Academy. Other film awards, such as the Golden Globes, are voted on by journalists.

Nominations for major awards from the Directors Guild of America and The Screen Actors Guild will be announced Thursday.

The WGA announced its documentary nominees on Tuesday, which included "March of the Penguins," "Cowboy Del Amor," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "The Fall of Fujimori" and "Street Fight."

The PGA also announced Wednesday the nominees for television. The nominees for Best Television Series Comedy were "Arrested Development," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Desperate Housewives," "Entourage" and "Two and a Half Men."

Nominees for the Best Drama Series PGA award were "24," "Boston Legal," "Grey's Anatomy," "Lost" and "Six Feet Under."

The PGA awards will be handed out Jan. 22, while the WGA will hand out its honors Feb. 4.

The nominees for this year's Oscars will be announced Jan. 31.
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