Watch out Oscar,
Slumdog Millionaire is coming.
The film won out over
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,
The Dark Knight,
Frost/Nixon and
Milk. The PGA Award has also become a reliable bellwether for the best picture Oscar -- 12 of the winners over the past 19 years have gone on to win the Academy Award's top honor, including last year's recipient
No Country for Old Men.
Slumdog Millionaire also won trophies at the
Golden Globes and
Critics' Choice Awards.
Other PGA award winners announced during the ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium:
- For Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Jim Morris,
Wall-E- For Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures: Simon Chinn,
Man on Wire- For Long-Form Television: David Coatsworth, Frank Doelger, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Steven Sareshian,
John Adams- For Television-Drama: Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher,
Mad Men- For Television-Comedy: Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey, Marci Klein, Robert Carlock, Jeff Richmond, Jerry Kupfer, David Miner,
30 Rock.
- For Non-Fiction Television: Jeff Fager,
60 Minutes- For Live Entertainment/Competition: Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, Jon Stewart, Allison Silverman, Richard Dahm, Meredith Bennett, Tom Purcell,
The Colbert Report
Featured in the gallery:
Natalie Portman, Zach Braff, John Hamm, Frank Langella, Debra Messing, Danny DeVito, Rhea Pearlman, Michael Sheen, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Kyle McLachlan, Terry Seymour, Bob Bablan, Kirk Douglas, Frances Fisher, Al Gore, Kathy Griffin, Laura Linney, Greg Kinnear, January Jones, Tracey Edmonds, Richard Jenkins, Dana Delany, Freida Pinto, Michael Douglas, Taraji P. Henson, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Zeta Jones, Danny Boyle and
Dev Patel.
