17th Producers Guild of America Awards

17th Annual Producers Guild Awards
Date	January 22, 2006 (2006-01-22)
Location	Universal Hilton Hotel, Hollywood, California
Country	United States
Presented by	Producers Guild of America
Hosted by	Queen Latifah
Highlights
Best Producer(s) Motion Picture:	Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus
Best Producer(s) Animated Feature:	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Claire Jennings and Nick Park

The 17th Producers Guild of America Awards (also known as 2006 Producers Guild Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2005, were held on January 22, 2006.[1][2][3] The ceremony at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Hollywood, California was hosted by Queen Latifah.[4] The nominations were announced on January 4, 2006.[5][6][7] The award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures was given out for the first time at this ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Film

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus Capote – Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven Crash – Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman Good Night, and Good Luck – Grant Heslov Walk the Line – James Keach and Cathy Konrad
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Claire Jennings and Nick Park Chicken Little – Randy Fullmer Corpse Bride – Tim Burton and Allison Abbate Madagascar – Mireille Soria Robots – Jerry Davis, John C. Donkin, and William Joyce

Television

Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama
Lost 24 Boston Legal Grey's Anatomy Six Feet Under
Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy
Entourage Arrested Development Curb Your Enthusiasm Desperate Housewives Two and a Half Men
David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Empire Falls Into the West Lackawanna Blues Warm Springs
Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
60 Minutes 30 Days The Amazing Race (season 6) The Amazing Race (season 7) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Outstanding Producer of Variety Television
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 77th Annual Academy Awards Late Night with Conan O'Brien Late Show with David Letterman Real Time with Bill Maher

David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

• Roger Corman

Milestone Award

• Clint Eastwood

Producers Guild Achievement Award in Television

• Norman Lear

Stanley Kramer Award

Awarded to the motion picture that best illuminates social issues.

• Good Night, and Good Luck[8]

Vanguard Award

Awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in new media and technology.

• Jonathan Miller

References

1. McNary, Dave (January 22, 2006). "PGA on cowboy trail". Variety. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
2. Rushfield, Richard; Lynch, Rene (January 23, 2006). "'Brokeback Mountain' Wins Producers Guild Award". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
3. "Producers Guild Awards 2006". Producers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
4. McNary, Dave (January 17, 2006). "Queen to rule PGA's night". Variety. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
5. "Brokeback wows movie guilds". GamesRadar+. January 5, 2006. Archived from the original on January 9, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
6. "'Brokeback Mountain,' 'Capote' among guild film nominees". usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 4, 2006. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
7. "Producers Guild Awards 2006". Producers Guild of America. Archived from the original on January 15, 2006. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
8. Hiestand, Jesse (December 6, 2005). "'Good Night' Gets PGA's Kramer Award". Backstage. Retrieved April 7, 2020.