2009 Producers Guild Award Nominations announced: Sci-Fi Geeks Rejoice!

The Producers Guild of America have announced their nominees for this year's award ceremony. The winner will be announced on January 24th. 13 of the past 20 films that have won the PGA award for Best Picture have gone on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.





The nominees are:

Avatar
An Education
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Precious
Star Trek
Up
Up In The Air

While there are some obvious choices in there, such as "Up In the Air", "Precious", "Invictus" (the second least deserving of the lot) and "The Hurt Locker" (which will most likely win), I'm a bit surprised by the strong presence of science-fiction in the mix: "Avatar" (my least favorite of the group), "District 9" and "Star Trek". Avatar shouldn't come as a big surprise given how well the film has done at the box office and with a majority of film critics, but I would never have guessed that the Guild would place three sci-fi films in the running given how little consideration the genre has been given over the past few decades by the Academy in general. Don't get me wrong, I am more than happy to see both "Trek" and "District 9" getting some nomination love. They're both great films. I just thought that come award ceremony time, both would probably be overlooked.

How nice it is to be wrong.