“Mrs. Maisel” is still on a marvelous awards season streak. Amy Sherman-Palladino’s tale of a ’50s housewife forging a career in standup comedy won the The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy at Saturday’s PGA Awards, according to Deadline. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” received the honor last year as well.
Sherman-Palladino also accepted the Norman Lear Award for Achievement in Television, as previously announced. Jane Fonda took home the Stanley Kramer Award in honor of her commitment to activism and social justice off-screen.
“Being Serena,” the HBO docuseries tracing tennis star Serena Williams’ professional and personal lives, nabbed The Award for Outstanding Sports Program.
Women-produced projects such as Mr. Rogers doc “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and critical darling “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” also nabbed accolades. The former received The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures, the latter The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures. The producers of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” include Caryn Capotosto, and Amy Pascal and Christina Steinberg are among “Into the Spider-Verse’s.”
Ahead of this weekend’s PGA Awards, guild presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher unveiled the Independent Production Safety Initiative, per Variety. The anti-sexual harassment initiative will offer free training and guidance to productions with a team of 20 or less, but “no HR or legal department conversant in the issues.” CBS — the company that employed, ousted, and eventually denied severance to alleged sexual predator Les Moonves — is funding the program.
Next, Berman and Fisher will set their sights on making productions more diverse and inclusive. “People tend to hire who they know, and have already worked with, and that doesn’t increase the pool,” Fisher said. “Producers can really affect the outcome of the climate there.”
Check out all the female 2019 PGA Award winners below. List adapted from Deadline.
The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
The Americans (Season 6)
Producers: Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, Chris Long, Graham Yost, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Stephen Schiff, Mary Rae Thewlis, Tracey Scott Wilson, Peter Ackerman, Joshua Brand
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Producers: Morgan Neville, Nicholas Ma, Caryn Capotosto
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Producers: Avi Arad, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg
The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (Season 2)
Producers: Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Tom Rob Smith, Daniel Minahan, Brad Falchuk, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Chip Vucelich, Maggie Cohn, Eric Kovtun, Lou Eyrich, Eryn Krueger Mekash
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Streamed or Televised Motion Pictures
Fahrenheit 451
Producers: Sarah Green, Ramin Bahrani, Michael B. Jordan, Alan Gasmer, Peter Jaysen, David Coatsworth
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
RuPaul’s Drag Race (Season 10)
Producers: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, RuPaul Charles, Mandy Salangsang, Steven Corfe
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Season 11, Season 12)
Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig
The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 2)
Producers: Amy Sherman‐Palladino, Daniel Palladino, Dhana Rivera Gilbert, Sheila Lawrence
