Leonardo DiCaprio's One Battle After Another inches closer to Oscars glory with victory at PGA Awards 2026

Paul Thomas Anderson's new dark comedy One Battle After Another nabbed the best picture prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards.

Hollywood heavy hitters flooded into the Fairmont Century Plaza in Beverly Hills on Saturday to await the news of the winners with breathless suspense.

The most hotly anticipated category, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, is filled with acclaimed movies that have emerged as contenders for the upcoming Oscars.

In 17 of the past 22 years, the winner of the Zanuck award has gone onto triumph in the best picture category at the Academy Awards.

Oscars victory inched that much closer Saturday night for One Battle After Another, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor and Regina Hall.

Anderson accepted the prize for his latest opus this Saturday night, accompanied by his fellow producer on the project Sara Murphy. 

Taylor and Hall had taken the stage together earlier that evening, joining a star-studded lineup of showbiz luminaries who presented at the fete.

Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo, both up for Oscars for their supporting roles in One Battle After Another, addressed the assembled luminaries as well. 

One Battle After Another triumphed over a category including the Brad Pitt vehicle F1, and the Timothee Chalamet starrer Marty Supreme helmed by Josh Safdie.

Bugonia - the latest collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and his muse Emma Stone, both of whom were producers - was also a competitor in that field. 

Chloe Zhao's biopic Hamnet starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley was also in contention, as is Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, the Norwegian film Sentimental Value, the buzzy mystery Weapons and the rugged historical picture Train Dreams.

Ryan Coogler's vampire movie Sinners, which has achieved a record as the most Oscar-nominated film of all time, rounded out the theatrical motion picture category.

Meanwhile the coveted Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama was given to the medical drama The Pitt, led by ER heartthrob Noah Wyle in a thunderous career comeback.

Facing off against it were the Keri Russell starrer The Comeback, the Star Wars spin-off Andor and The White Lotus, as well as Severance and Pluribus. 

The wildly popular KPop Demon Hunters won Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures, against Elio, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle and a brace of sequels, The Bad Guys 2 and Zootopia 2. 

The now-canceled Late Show with Stephen Colbert won Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television. 

Jimmy Kimmel Live! had also been in contention for that prize, after both it host and Colbert's widely publicized scuffles with the Trump administration. 

Also nominated were The Daily Show - with its original host Jon Stewart restored - as well as SNL50: The Anniversary Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. 

Seth Rogen's new sitcom The Studio, featuring the recently deceased Catherine O'Hara, went home that night with the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television - Comedy.

Its competitors included Only Murders in the Building - one of whose stars Martin Short suffered the shocking loss of his daughter Katherine's suicide this week -as well as South Park, The Bear and Hacks.

Netflix's revered show Adolescence earned the David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television, besting Black Mirror, The Beast in Me, Black Rabbit and the Michelle Williams-led Dying for Sex.

Producer Jo Johnson gave the acceptance speech for Adolescence, surrounded by her colleagues Jeremy Kleiner, Nina Wolarsky, Peter Balm and Emily Feller. 

The documentary John Candy: I Like Me - directed by Tom Hanks' son Colin Hanks - won Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures. 

It triumphed over Renee Zellweger's new offering Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, as well as the sci-fi picture The Gorge starring Miles Teller, the satire Mountainhead directed by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong and the biopic Nonnas with a cast including Vince Vaughn and Lorraine Bracco.

The smash hit reality show The Traitors was once again the recipient of the gong for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television, brushing aside old favorites like Jeopardy!, Top Chef, The Amazing Race and RuPaul's Drag Race. 

The documentary category was a star-studded affair this year, won by My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay, which covers the life of Jayne Mansfield.

Hargitay, draped in a shimmering salmon frock reminiscent of a sari, hit the stage that evening to accept the prize beside fellow producer Trish Adlesic.

They beat out Ocean with David Attenborough is also in the running, in addition to Cover-Up , Mr. Nobody Against Putin, The Perfect Neighbor and The Tale of Silyan. 

Pee-wee as Himself was the winner in the non-fiction television category, which was awash in celebrity profiles such as aka Charlie Sheen, Billy Joel: And So It Goes and Mr. Scorsese, all of which were up against SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night.

Behind-the-scenes content meanwhile dominated the short-form category, in which Adolescence: The Making of Adolescence emerged ahead of a pack including The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains, Hacks: Bit By Bit, Overtime with Bill Maher and The White Lotus: Unpacking the Episode.

The prize for children's programming was a contest that saw Sesame Street beat LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, Pieces of the Past, Phineas and Ferb, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical and SpongeBob SquarePants.

A glittering star-studded array of presenters had been assembled that evening, including Sentimental Value star Elle Fanning and her director Joachim Trier.

Kate Hudson, nominated for best actress at the Oscars for her lead role in Song Sung Blue, was also one of the presenters, as was Michael Keaton. 

Barbie director Greta Gerwig was on hand to present the David O. Selznick Award - a form of lifetime achievement prize - to Amy Pascal.

Comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife and co-writer Emily V. Gordon - writers of the buzzy 2017 picture The Big Sick - also took the stage.

So did such names as longtime entertainment mogul Barry Diller, as well as veteran horror movie producer Jason Blum, winner of the Milestone Award.