“Loving” will receive a top honor from the Producers Guild of America — the Stanley Kramer Award — at its forthcoming January awards ceremony.
Jeff Nichols’ film, about the overturning of America’s interracial marriage ban in the 1960s starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, will take the prize named after director Kramer in the same year that his own game-changing race drama, “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,” turns 50.
“It has never been more important than right now to recognize our shared humanity and the quietly unshakable bond between Richard and Mildred Loving, who — just like Stanley Kramer‘s classic characters — stood as the ultimate rebuke to a culture intent on dividing us,” Producers Guild Awards Chairs Donald De Line and Amy Pascal said in a joint statement.
Producers and PGA members Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Sarah Green, Nancy Buirskiand, Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf will be included in the honor for their work on the film, which is a Focus Features release.
The Kramer Award is handed to a production, producer or group of individuals who raise public awareness of social issues. Previous winners include “Milk,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” Angelina Jolie’s “In the Land of Blood and Honey” and the climate doc “An Inconvenient Truth.”
This year’s ceremony will take place on Jan. 28 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Oscar Race: 5 Actors Competing Against Themselves, From Amy Adams to Andrew Garfield (Photos)
Andrew Garfield has earned raves for his performance as a pacifist WWII soldier in Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge," and he's also toplining Martin Scorsese's long-in-the-works historical drama "Silence."
Amy Adams has drawn great acclaim for her role as a dissatisfied L.A. art dealer in Tom Ford's "Nocturnal Animals" as well as for playing a linguist who communicates with an alien race in Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival."
Jake Gyllenhaal memorably tackles two roles, both riveting, in Tom Ford's "Nocturnal Animals." But will voters remember his heartbreaking turn as a grieving husband in last April's Jean-Marc Vallée drama "Demolition"?
Mahershala Ali picked up a Spirit Award nomination for his turn as a three-dimensional drug dealer in "Midnight," but he also stands out as a military vet who woos Taraji P. Henson's single-mom mathematician in "Hidden Figures."
Elle Fanning , at just 18, has kept busy in multiple films this year but she's earning awards buzz for her supporting turns in both Ben Affleck's Prohibition-era thriller "Live by Night" and Mike Mills' '70s-set "20th Century Women."
Chilean director Pablo Larraín has two biopics that are garnering awards attention, "Neruda" starring Gael García Bernal as the famed poet-politician and "Jackie" starring Natalie Portman as Mrs. John F. Kennedy Jr.
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A handful of stars — and at least one director — are earning raves for more than one film this awards season
Andrew Garfield has earned raves for his performance as a pacifist WWII soldier in Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge," and he's also toplining Martin Scorsese's long-in-the-works historical drama "Silence."
