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Monday, January 20, 2014

Out of 10 nominated titles (2013 "Best Picture" category), two share a tie as Co-winner -- details from EW (Entertainment Weekly posting)

at ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY posted announcement (www.ew.com): story by Josh Rottenberg of the online magazine (EW) One of the most up-in-the-air Academy Award races in memory just got even more unpredictable. For the first time in its 25-year history, the Producers Guild Awards —generally considered the most reliable predictor of which film will take home the Best Picture Oscar— ended in a tie. Alfonso CuarĂ³n’s Gravity and Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave shared the group’s prize for Best Picture at Sunday night’s ceremony. The other Best Picture nominees were American Hustle, Blue Jasmine, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Her, Nebraska, Saving Mr. Banks, and The Wolf of Wall Street. In 17 out of the past 24 years—and each of the last six—the Best Picture winner at the Producers Guild Awards has gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar. Well, so much for that. With the unpredecented tie at the Producers Guild and Saturday night’s Best Ensemble win for American Hustle at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it’s anyone’s guess which film has the advantage at this point as we head toward Oscar night on March 2, 2014. http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/20/gravity-12-years-a-slave-win-producers-guild-awards/

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