SEVERAL MAJOR FRONTRUNNERS ABSENT FROM PGA NOMINEES

Nominations for the PGA awards were revealed today. Joining a previously announced slate of documentary nods (today's press release included credits for those features, for the first time) are five nominees for Best Animated Feature and ten for Best Picture. Missing from the Best Picture list is the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, one of the critical hits of the year - will it be the film this year that picks up major heat from critics but then gets dumped by the industry? And missing from the animated list is Miyazaki Hayao's The Wind Rises, a hilarious oversight which I saw coming, because it's the PGA, and nobody has worse taste than the PGA. Fact. Winners will be announced on the 19th of January, which is only 17 days away - a mercifully brief stretch. So have a good lol at these while they're still relevant.

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave (Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt)

American Hustle (Megan Ellison, Jon Gordon, Charles Roven and Richard Suckle)

Blue Jasmine (Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum)

Captain Phillips (Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Scott Rudin)

Dallas Buyers Club (Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter)

Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman)

Her (Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay)

Nebraska (Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa)

Saving Mr. Banks (Ian Collie, Alison Owen and Philip Steuer)

The Wolf of Wall Street (Riza Aziz, Emma Koskoff and Joey McFarland)

Best Animated Feature

The Croods (Kristine Belson and Jane Hartwell)

Despicable Me 2 (Janet Healy and Chris Meledandri)

Epic (Jerry Davis and Lori Forte)

Frozen (Peter Del Vecho)

Monsters University (Kori Rae)

Best Documentary

Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (Brad Bernstein and Rick Cikowski)

Life According to Sam (Sean Fine, Andrea Nix and Miriam Weintraub)

A Place at the Table (Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush)

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney and Marc Shmuger)

Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (James Brabazon and Nick Quested)